I walked back to my pile and had a mild breakdown tonight! The new job might make us a pellet house and my brain can't handle only pellets! I'll probably end up in the doghouse for bad attitude! Really isn't much left I sold almost 20 cord to help with the job change and still have about 12 cord and maybe two left to split. Man I am falling behind now! All those pretty saws not getting dirty! The woods are calling! ( that could be a soap opera name). How are all my long lost friends doing? It's been a while! I'm having withdrawl issues here folks!
Been cutting every weekend since March and just now got enough for two years. Feels good to get ahead
How the heck are you Pete is the new job working out good for ya? You're just going to have to get out there and get them saws dirty I gotta come out and see you bud, I got your hat and gloves sitting here in a box
I've been cutting and scrounging free wood off CL. Or will find 7-10 truck loads worth of piles for $100-200. Been doing this off and on the last 2.5 years. When I get some knotty or messy pine or less desiarable woods I process it and sell it to recoup my cost and also put some $ in the vacation fund. I'm at 20 cords css oak, ash, elm, maple, and cherry. Some sorted some not. Do you process and sell that much each year? Or you just sold that much to help with funds. I couldn't imagine doing that every year if thats the case. It taken me 2.5 yrs to aquire enough to get that far ahead and thats giving up a lot of hobby time... fishing, softball, some hunting, etc. Glad you found time to make it back! Now go get them saws dirty!
Good to see you back on. Hopefully the new job is going good so far. You'll get caught back up, even if you have to rely on the pellets a little more heavily for a couple of years.
Heck, burn whatever you have until you get caught up. Right now, I think oil is cheaper than pellets. Propane and natural gas isn't bad either. If you and the lady are staying warm, well that is enough. You have been through a lot of change lately, just don't let any of it beat you up.
Pete, glad to know your doing well.. I am not the fabled 3 to 4 years ahead yet either.. got about 12 cord css.. 3 to 4 cord more in stages.. do not know how many years that is as last year was soooo warm and new Ideal steel burned much less.. I do know getting ahead by yourself when you burn 10 plus cord a year and are as slow as me.... is hard... hope the family is happy with new job.. and stay warm this winter
Very well HD! Hauling milk gets to be long hours but the pay is good and I am home every night! Well 95% of the time anyways. There is the occasional mess up. I have that tarp for you too but it might not be to pretty its laying in the back yard on the ground behind one of my stacks... I really need to get it out of there... Yup that box of goodies has me all excited!!!!! What are you up to this friday? I have that day off. We are busy in the afternoon but the rest of the day is free.
At one point I had 40 full cord ! I did sell fire wood for a couple years and made good money but the work involved takes away from other things I could be doing. Their wasn't a lot of down time when I css and then sold firewood it was go go go work come home split stack sell..... Now ill sell the occasional face cord here and there but thats never planned. Firewood is one of my hobbies mainly because I love saws and the woods. All but one of my saws are really modified.... The one that isn't is a major pain in the butt at times. It argues with me constantly to get going. But when it does go lord that monster cuts! You sound like you have a good thing going for firewood too! We are blessed to have lots of friends who know my addiction so I can cut just about anywhere I want these days but before that I also scrounged like crazy...... You having 20 cord is a real achievement to be proud of! Question is how many of the neighbours think you have lost it and gone insane! Thats a good measure of success!
How have you been my friend? Havnt chatted at all in months have we? We where actually trying to sell the pellet stove now that the new fancy shmansy furnace heating thing is installed as backup! ( I know for shame Pallet Pete installed a furnace ) That probably isnt gonna happen now. The wife really needs the warmer heat due to he thyroid issues so we may need to wait a little longer now.
NON whatsoever... I have done it before and even tried those eco blocks for a winter. Nothing like wood heat to warm the wife and keep the cat quiet right?
We went a few winters on just wood because I am stubborn and wouldn't buy a new furnace.... This year will cost more no matter what we do. The new furnace is going to be backup mainly but now we actually have an on switch that connects to a heater. That feels odd. We recounted last night I think we are up to 14 cord right now so I may hit 20 again before winter hits if I get moving. Thanks Larry! Its not beating me up just bumming me out. Things have gone well with the job change and I didn't end up needing to sell all that firewood after all. O well it just means i can pump more race fuel into my saws.
Isn't that a great feeling! Less wood more heat I mean. We had the same experience when we went from a smoke dragon to an epa stove! Simply amazing difference. Now we have upgraded to the Jotul and its the best stove I have had hands down. We went from 8 to 10 cord a winter to avg 3.5 cord! Hopefully your ideal steel will drop that much wood use too...
Pete, don't forget if you need a place to cut more wood. Or if you ever run out, just take from our stacks. Can you drain enough milk out of those tanks to keep yourself from buying any? Man, I miss the days when we'd just go to the milkhouse and skim the cream off the top of the cans. Made some fantastic ice cream and whipped cream with that.
We have both Pallet Pete , that pellet stove saved my lazy azz a few times when I woke up late in the recliner and I didn't want to start a fire in the wood stove.
Pete do you have wood that needs cut and split or do you need us to bring the wood along to cut and split?
