I can checked on high temp rtv and it is heatproof to about 700 degrees. I rings may be too small but I will research the silicon hose. That may be the ticket. Thanks much. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Load #3, 90% oak topped off with maple. 70f right in the sun, it was hot splitting and loading but got her done! .
Once I pull in and back the truck up I haven't been stopping, only for a drink or 2. Normally split 3-6 rounds, then load the splits on the truck and repeat. No rest for the wicked Wasn't able to get back for the next load tonight but managed to get the oak and maple load all stacked up on a pallet tonight.
Got load #4 tonight, was hoping to beat the rain but I didn't, just started to load and it started down pouring, tossed my hat,wallet and phone in the truck and just started tossing it in, probably the fastest I have loaded a truck Mix of basswood and maple in this one. The misses was shaking her head at me when I got home and said she would have just turned around, then I may have gotten a eye roll when I said something with being wet, got wood and blow drying after 11 years she gotten use to just ignoring me
Dedication or stupidity it's a crap shoot Normally I wouldn't be pushing so hard but I told the guy I would have out by today, but after I got there, there is a lot more wood then the photo he took looked like. So I let him know and said I could still have it out this week. To much good firewood there not to hold up to my word so I will keep on keeping on!
Photos of wood piles are deceiving as ive learned too. Deadlines can be a PITA especially when mother nature intervenes. Your rush job loading reminds me of me unloading brush at the dump Friday. They close at 1145 sharp weekdays. I thought it was 12. I get there at 1135 and the old guy tells me ive got five minutes to unload this...into a 6' tall dumpster no less! Im going B2TW. He comes over and says throw the rest on the ground and payloader will take care of it. The two slightly disgruntled guys with half the gate closed as i pulled out at 1150 sweating bullets, heart racing a mile a minute! They closed at 145 Saturday and i got both loads there in plenty of time!
That's a heck of a load of brush to unload in 5 minutes! I always hate when you think a place closes at one time and figure out when you get there they are fixing to close and are giving you the hairy eyeball as you rush around .
Took me maybe ten minutes. I didnt time it. I had all the branches oriented the fat end toward the back. When i left the cantankerous old guy said be careful dont get a heart attack. Now you tell me was my thought. This was actually my first trip to my hometown dump as i used to bring it to my former hometown dump the next town over. He finally realized i was a "commercial" hauler and now charges me albeit at a discount. The rates went WAY up this year. Free at my hometown. I do an occasional brush removal limb clean up job. Have a load from the same place to remove tomorrow. Ill be there earlier for sure. Good luck with your next trip and hoard on my friend!
Nice score!!! Got myself a load of ash yesterday. Not a big’n but FIRST load of the year!!! Temps are dropping and time to get to work.
Had to go back to work after the last load so I took the truck to go get load #6 afterwork, I had some cherry sitting on a field edge sence last year so I figured I would grab that first. Ended up being more then I remember. So didnt get any more from the other score, but this cherry is part of the wood going camping with us in a few days, going to cherry pick some rounds to split and take.
Had a shorter day at work today, only had a 10 hour shift, spent a little time with the misses when I got home then she headed out to work with a horse so I headed out to get a load of wood. Ended up getting load #6 and #7 Load #6 finished the main pile. Mix of basswood,maple and oak. Load #7, got the stack by the driveway. Maple and basswood. Still had some room but my back was telling me to quit so I did. Have about 2 truck loads left there. The growing pile to process, started getting some split. The load of oak and maple I got is already split and stacked, not in the photo. Load #7 is still in the truck, not unloaded into the pile yet.
That is a great pile of free wood! That basswood I never had good luck with it. Might be good shoulder season though?
Makes really good shoulder season wood, if I burned it in the dead of winter I would probably have to fill the OWB 3 times a day, But fall and spring it's just right and can save on my good hardwood for when it's really cold.
That's been a great score Redneckchevy. Hope your back was just acting as your timer for right then, and is better by this morning. Those first two pics with the woods really got my attention....yall don't have many leaves left!
