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‘23/‘24 wood migration begins

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  1. The Wood Wolverine

    The Wood Wolverine

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    Took the day off. Perfect weather here in southern PA.
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    Rolling the rubber cover off is easiest to do from on top the stack. That center row keeps water from pooling on the cover.
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    Beat the sun in filling my basement well area, where I chuck wood in.

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    3 trailer loads with this new trailer is all it took.
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    Stuffed.
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    Now for my least favorite part of burning wood. Have to carry about 20’ to stack it. Working solo sucks, sometimes. I do have a pretty good stereo set-up down here and an old iPod filled with good tunes so that helps a little.
     
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    Burning red oak from this score:

    Another massive oak score

    Pretty sure it’s dry:
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    I’ll pick another random split later to confirm that number. Yes it’s on a freshly opened side of wood.
     
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    Nice, clean looking property Jason!!
     
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    Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
    The sunflowers and corn remind of my youth on the Dakota prairie raking hay and feeding the cattle for no pay. :rofl: :lol:
     
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    Done for today. Hands starting to protest. These oak splits are on the large side so gripping one at a time shortens my sessions.

    Some of this wood was already there. Mainly the far wall and a couple feet on the left row.
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    You might be able to bodge one yourself out of an old bookbag or something.

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    Great view out back.
     
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    Nice. I’d love to try one out. :yes: I’ll have to look into it.
     
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    After loading and unloading a trailer worth of splits last night I remembered something that always is a bother when handling splits in short sleeves...my left forearm is all beat/scratched up from cradling. I'm gonna see if we have some cut sleeves in stock and give one of those a try. I don't want it to be *too easy, but always looking for ways to improve.
     
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  10. Backwoods Savage

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    Right on Jason.

    This is an old picture when I was stacking some ash but this is also how I move it and have been doing some lately. It turns out to be a lot easier on my body using the tractor, mainly because I can raise or lower the bucket so as to ease the burden on my back.

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    This is another way I move the wood.
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    And these pictures show how I used to unload the wood. PUtting wood on porch-2.JPG
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    Sure was a perfect day for sure. Yeah moving firewood aint fun, but you got it done. Hey that rhymes!
     
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    Gripping 2 pieces at a time is really hard on the hands. I do need to find an alternative as all my help has moved out. A lot of these are now split heavy enough my wife has to carry one piece at a time, so she doesn't really like to help. And at the pace I like to move, she ends up being in the way.
    I need a motorized one of these;
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    My mom has two shopping carts down the basement for moving wood. No idea where my old man got them :)
     
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    It brings joy to my heart to see wood going to it's final resting place!
     
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    :yes:
    Brings joy to my bank account to have no idea what fuel oil goes for these days. :dex:
     
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    You can buy one. Or you can put one end higher than the other and let mother nature do some of the work for you.
     
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    Like a slide?
     
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    That would definitely work well, but probably not cheap. I have a line on a LogOx Sling. Fingers crossed I get it for a deal.
     
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    I’ll bet you miss her dennis! How long has it been now?
     
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    2 years 8 1/2 months. Yes I certainly do miss her. I don't know how others deal with it but I can tell you there have been days on end when I wonder if I can go on without her. She was my life.

    I still love you Judy.
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