9 tanks of gas and 6 hours cutting, 7 hours splitting and chucking, and we are rolled up and ready to relax a while
Holy hoarding Batman! Thats a lotta wood! That Spring split-a-thon cant come soon enough Greg. Running out of pavement. Way to get it done! Im shot after a couple tanks of gas, but im old! EDIT: i see its all split in the rain pic.
I think back to the thread where that area was first developed, with the concrete blocks for backing. It looks like the area is performing well for you. After a few years of use, do you wish you had done anything different?
Wasn’t all one day, I sort of cut two hours at a time And my wife helped me split one pile, and two buddies the other two
I’m really happy with it overall, and appreciate the level pavement when I move the log splitter around. I have scraped it a few times dumping big logs, or with my grapple moving a log, but much cheaper than concrete and has held up well under a fair amount of traffic
I like the lounge bar chairs. (second to last pic) I didnt know making firewood could be a spectator sport!
If you empty a tank of gas, you get to sit there 5 minutes. On the big fill the lean to day, three dozen or so donuts sit on the round table, at least they are there when we start
A tithe load goes to the pastor who helps Then about five helpers each take a pickup load Sometimes the helpers come the week before and get their load so we don’t have too many vehicles. For them we split down to wood stove/insert size. For me it just goes from pile to that lean to. Usually we get job done 9-noon and then fun meal follows. Funny, but 12 guys does it in 3 hours, 15-16 guys also does it in 3 hours. So we aim for 12 with my sons and I making 5 of 12.
Lean to holds 17 cords, and 10/1-4/15 it will eat almost all Radiant floor heat for 5000sf and domestic hot water but I also burn everything try thing from maple to oak, whatever is free and flammable in it goes, so hard to say what I’d burn if I burned all oak.
