Ive been giving my friend most of my nuglies and shorts from my recent scores. With the honey locust and walnut i got from my friends cutting last week, i opted to make a bin for them. Maybe 2/3 of the wood from that score is shorts/nuggets etc. Ive had this rough sawn 1x4 (scrounged from a metal roofing pallet) and pressure treated 1x4 hanging around for too long. 4x4's are reclaimed. Three sides temped together. Ill reassemble there. Left side abuts another stack. Open front will be stacked with 10-14" shorts and "backfilled" with nuggets. The only out of pocket was the PT 1x4 which was next to nothing cull rack score. It will have top and front diagonal braces. Left one is temporary. 4x4x8'
Assembled and started to fill the bin yesterday. 10-14" shorts stacked in front. Honey locust and sugar maple for now. I split all the shorts on hand.
Nicely done. I do pretty much the same thing with my chunks and uglies. If they don't make it in the bin, I throw them in between two rows of splits like you. I guess in a perfect world there would be no shorts, but what can you do? I tell my friend who's helping me cut to do them all 16 inches. Might as well just be talking to myself... Maybe when he's not looking I'll scratch a line on his bar so he has no excuse.
The stacked pieces are 10-14". My friend and his BIL felled and bucked the trees and 10-20" were the standard length. Three more trees that i offered to fell, and buck and he didnt call back. I use a folding rule and kids chalk to mark out my standard 16". Chunkies are inevitable when scrounging, but this was nuts. Here's the thread Found Myself Another Honey! Can you mark logs when cutting with your friend prior to his cutting?
I am looking at a bunch of maple shorts right now. Throwing them between rows is a great idea. Don't blame your friend. When splitting I got to thinking. just the other day I came to the conclusion that "Wood cutting is like fishing." the cuts get smaller the more you get. We use to go to Lake Erie perch fishing. They had a 50 fish limit. By the time everyone in the family had their limit there was well over 100 fish. When you are getting down to the end cleaning them it is "That fish was a lot bigger then this when I caught it."
I keep her in stitches! I popped a button off my work pants couple weeks ago. PITA as i had to work all day with it missing. She does a pretty good job sewing them back on. Sometimes i think she'd like to sew my lips shut!
How did you get Ms buZZsaw BRAD to do your sewing? When my wife saw my version of sewing. she banned me from the needle and thread drawer
She has offered. Rare that a button pops off, but i do so much bending and flexing at work and making firewood that it does happen.
Nice lookin bin! I just have a nuggies heap. They get tossed in a pile and usually burned in the firepit or shop stove.
thats usually what i do, but where this is stored space is very limited and i like to keep the wood cleaner if possible. With all the scrounging i do, nuggets and shorts pile up rather quickly.
