PM me your address & I will ship you some hedgeballs this fall when they are ready. You can start your own Osage timber like Eric Wanderweg
Got off work early so built a couple of houses. These are on the 330-gallon totes, taller, so they should be able to stay on even when loading. Most of my totes are the shorter 275-gallon ones so may need to get a little creative to raise the top so it can stay on all the time.
Cut and split the ash from this load. Afterwards I sent down east of Bunny's and cut up a (white?) oak limb, brought it up to the splitter and took care of it. Ended up with a nice load that now needs to be hauled to the backyard.
Simple solution is to drill 2 holes, 3/8" is fine... each corner...1 above, 1 below, top rail. Use a heavy duty zip tie around rail on each corner to hold top on. Then make a cut out, the width of your tote opening, part way towards the top. Similar to this. I can get better pics tomorrow
Got better pics this morning... A couple with BL in them... Even have room to pile splits up in there. Ash and beech in this tote...
I have thought about that as an option and may go that route. But, if I rase them I can fit more wood in each tote, and I see that as a good thing. I have a little over a half cord in the pickup to unload and will see how they work the way they are. Will post pictures when I have a tote full.
Unloaded the wood that I cut/split last weekend. Almost filled two 330-gallong totes. Maybe I can have a repeat today. Had a gentleman who wanted 4 cords for $200 per cord. Thought about it and decided to turn it down as we do better by the tote plus it would be most of the wood that should be truly ready to burn.
I don't blame you for turning that offer down. On a 330 gal tote, you should at least get $100 or more.
Not as full as mine at the house, but Bunny says she has a couple totes sold for $140 each. I try to fit as much in as possible. I have heard 1/4-1/3 in a 275-gallon tote and 1/4 cord thrown it. I believe it to be closer to 1/4 stacked. I may use your idea to cut the front of the roof off to stick a little more in each one.
Got out in the heat for about 5 hours. Cut up some silver maple and ash that has been down a few years. Didn't get a true before picture. After loading. Took some of the maple, but fear it is too far gone to be worth it. I did split the rounds on the gate and threw most of it back in the truck. Darn heat got to me so called it a day. With any luck, I can sort through and pull the splits and small stuff and get in totes. Should be 30 + degrees cooler next weekend so maybe get this split plus some more. Have a good week all.
I fully agree Dennis, but you know how much work goes into a cord as well. Talked to him today and he found some for $250 per cord. He said he is saving my number and still may call me. Doesn't help that I need to get 5+ cords to the house to be caught up here.
$250 is the minimum I would take for a cord & you are still only making peanuts after your time & expenses.
I fully agree with you Jim. Doesn't help my agreement with Lefty and now Bunny is all sales are split 50/50. Anyway, he says that someone is bring him a full cord for $250 delivered.
Load I cut last weekend. Turned it into a load of splits for the backyard. Ranges from all but junk to great wood.
A little tour of the area I'm starting to hit before snow shuts it down. Silver maple from last October. Some of it was iffy when we got it, so see what we end up with. Plan on starting on this next weekend.
