Good advice for sure! I'm set up in the shade & plenty of drinks. Other good part is it's all machines, very little manual labor.
Sure is nice loading the stove in your slippers all winter, eh? You were smart to put three stringers down for the logs. When I was buying grapples I would have the guy put down 4. Greatly reduced pinching when cutting on the pile.
Well, since last Monday until later this afternoon I was able to get 3 1/2 rows done. Each row is about a full cord. I'm a bit better than halfway through the pile. Most of those remaining are eight footers with a few sixteens thrown in. I'll poke away at it after work this week cutting a log or two then splitting and piling it. Then I'll cut up some rounds to split for the next night. I'm starting to run into some dirty ones and will have to hose them off as I get them down onto the stringers. All in all not too bad for a 62 year old working totally by himself. Sure went through the Pepsi this week with the heat and humidity.
Just a reminder of why I hose the dirt off the logs that are dirty. This stone was embedded into the bark right about where I'll be making my cut and covered by a light coating of sand and dried mud. Hitting it would have slowed me down for quite a bit. Now the wet logs will drip off overnight and dry out completely in the sun and wind before I get home and start cutting again tomorrow afternoon after work.
Working on the sixth and last row for the shed. I have quite a few logs left for a change, thanks to last years warm winter. I'll continue to cut them all and pile them out in the old barn. I have to relocate the poplar that's currently out there downstairs first.
Finished up yesterday. The shed's all full and there's a row and a bit out in the barn. I'll put the last row downstairs with this poplar tomorrow and whatever is left I'll stack it in front of the oak. I'll continue to burn the poplar once burning season starts before I get into the hardwood in the dry section of the shed. It took me three weeks less two days to get the whole load of logs cut, split and stacked. That's about the usual amount of time it takes me. I had a week off work the first week too.
