So this morning I started ferrying my outside stacks of fire wood into the back of the open half of the woodshed. My Wif thinks it just sounds crazy to be stacking firewood on the 4th of July, "it's Summer after all". I obviously disagree. She said "Well, ask some people and we'll see who's right". So I'm posing the question "Is it strange or crazy to grab a free morning on the 4th of July (summer) to stack Fire wood?" Actually, having briefly perused this site, I think her exact words were "Ask some NORMAL people and we'll see who's right", so she may disallow any data gathered here!
I cut some brush in the wayback, and started a new rack for my oak hoard. They are 3 year old rounds, so they split real easy.
The ones who take care of this stuff in advance are the ones who have the fewest problems come winter. Short term thinking usually results in long term problems. I moved almost 1/2 of the last 1/3 cord from the r/h side of the shed into the l/h side yesterday, and did a bit more today. 96 degs both days. You'd think I'd do it first thing in the morning........however, that's coffee time so I should have the rest moved over by the weekend or maybe the end of the weekend. I can then start moving more wood from the stacks into the r/h side. The free Poplar I got is calling to be c/s/s, so I need to make room for it.
I sprayed some Roundup in an area that I hope to put stacks for a cord of wood, this morning. That counts, right? The area was covered in poison ivy. Past storms took down a decent cedar tree there. So, I might as well move some new racks to the area and have a place to stack some of that red oak I have..... when I get to splitting it in a few months. I then had a burger, beer, and watermelon. Happy 4TH!!
I can read ya know. (and never claimed to be normal) Shop decided to work on the 4th, and take Thur/Fri off for a 4 day weekend. Temps are supposed to drop beginning on Fri, and have a co-worker who's kids wanna earn a little cash by stacking. So, hopefully if they work out well, I'll be done cutting/splitting/stacking this weekend, then will be ordering in another triaxle of logs.
I’m not fighting the snakes in my piles this time of year. I wait until we have a couple of really hard frosts to move my wood. Cold weather is for wood hoarding.
The snakes we have around here don't bother me at all, but some of the spiders I've seen are just HUGE!!! Best I could discern from the Google, is that they are wolf spiders, non poisonous, but BIG!!
My feeling is....there's 12 months in a year....ill be dammed if I'm gonna do my wood preperation during the 3 hottest months out of the year when its over 80*....high humidity n dew point much above 60*s.....just sayin
I do the majority of my gathering in the spring as soon as the snow melts enough to let me get in the woods. I use about 5 cord per year and finish before it gets warm and the bugs get bad. That said, whatever,whenever it takes to get enough wood put up is better than being a freezing pilgrim come winter.
July 2015 saw 80-90’s and I was dropping trees (read=cutting down the shade) in a buddy’s yard....sweated a lot, but hey ya gotta get rid of them toxins somehow. Me and Fire Flake will be moving 3 cord of mixed oak in the next hottest weeks of the summer here.....she just doesn’t know it yet.
