A new smokin customer called, wanted a 3 variety pack...got him set up with cherry, pecan and hickory. Got to deliver it to him this evening. His new smoker will be here Saturday. Hope it cooks great for him. Maybe we will get back in time to start back on the above rack of hickory and oak for another smokin customer. Even had a little company while I was running the splitter. Must have needed a little salt in the diet...
How do you sell the smoking woods...meaning a bit of each, 1/4, face cord etc? Or by the customers requests?
I guess by request...lol...One customer got a full cord of Hickory and Oak, lasted 2 years, he is going to to get another load this fall. The new customer wanted X# pieces of cherry, X# of pecan and X# of hickory. Another friend wanted hickory, oak and a bit of pecan. Whatever the formula they want...wish I could find some apple down here and mesquite....
I have at least a cord of apple, wish I knew someone who smokes with it... I offered it to our pig roast friend, but he's a purist, only uses charcoal, doesn't want to change the flavor of the pig.
My hunny continues to amaze me, she sent me a picture about 1:00 today, "look what this old gal has been doing"...her words... Said only ones she was leaving me was the big crotch pieces...oh, and she was gonna let me stack it...lol... What a blessing she is....
I cut down a pretty good sized (16" at the stump) Apricot tree late last year. Gave most of it to a friend. He saves it only for BBQing and loves. I saved a little bit so I can try it. I have another that will probably come down in a year or two that is a bit bigger.
After the nice rain shower yesterday afternoon, I got the pile of hickory and oak stacked that my hunny split. I added some to the back stack started on the middle and front stack, she did almost a face cord. Not wood related, but my hunny still got it done in DIXIE yesterday. She's getting ready for deer season. She mowed about 3 acres of our food plots, before getting low on fuel. Just can't brag on my gal enough...so glad she isn't afraid to drive the tractor. We've got 2 more to mow and some trails to clean up.
What real "Wonder Woman" looks like....Keep on braggin cause we don't get to see these "salt of the earth" women praised in Hollyweird (intentional Spelling) unless they are dressed in a costume. By the way, don't know how you do it, but the faces of your cords all look as though they were trued up with a laser guided instrument....Is this also the work of your most beloved "Hunny"??
Thank you, she is special. She had a good teacher on the stacking......we have a big back panel that we stack the first row against to start straight. We also use a measuring stick when we buck logs...
Sorry, I'm gonna have to block your posts now so my wife never sees what stacks of firewood are supposed to look like. I'm sure you can appreciate my concerns...
Got the skid full of logs bucked up before dark... split a few rounds, including one of the big hickory crotch rounds, found some more hidden surprises inside. Glad it wasn't with the saw again.. Maybe we can Git'ter done this evening.
Ouch.. that woulda hurt! One at the top and I can't make out what it is, but looks like someone nailed something pretty significant into the bottom area using some long spikes. You really got a pass on this one!
It was wire fence and nails. First post on page 13 of this thread shows first round cut off of that hickory log. Didn't get a pass on that one. And that tree wasn't even on the property line in his yard.
Oh yeah I see it! too bad, such a pretty blue otherwise. Probably one of the worst scenarios for dulling the blade; multiple target point object and braided (possibly somewhat hardened steel I imagine as well), but also that little bit of give instead of total resistance can contribute to chewing up the teeth. Once while chainsaw milling a 50 yr old white oak back in 1990 I hit a whole clothes line assembly with the pulley and all embedded in the tree. From what I could tell by the growth rings the tree started swallowing this hunk of hardware up about 25 years before it was cut down. That wasn't a resharpening, but a full replacement for my specialized rip blade. Too bad the internet wasn't around then, it would have been a neat thing to post on here...The blue streak alone was incredible! (then again we didn't exactly have a camera on a wireless phone with us all the time either Hahaha!). I often have bad luck when trying to cut into a log in this metro area and as a habit always cringe a bit when sinking the blade into any tree now ..always suspicious. To give you a few examples besides the prevalent random nail or screw, I've hit sections of old buried chain-link fence and also barbed wire, even a fine braided steel rope that was swallowed up when looped around the base of the tree to tether something to it! I tell you I never have any luck (said in Rodney Dangerfield voice while adjusting my tie), one time thinking I found a valuable piece of wood I saw a beautiful burl on a cherry log. Being into sculpting bowls at the time (not turning, I didn't have a lathe) I decided to cut it off only to find that the burl formed in the first place growing around a 3/8th" thick lag bolt style screw hook! I know what it was because at first I only saw that I cross cut through a thick steel spike of steel, but being curious I had to find out what it was exactly? So I carefully carved the wood away to reveal the huge blackened hook.
Wow. It happens.,I posted on another thread, about the big strap and ring we found in a 43" oak round, found it with the splitter, not the saw, thank God
You must be referring to this sucker ...haha! I remember when you posted it in "things you find in the ashes"
