It was 65 this morning and after having two cups of coffee it was time I tested the new tube. It was nice having the a/c in the rtv, it will freeze the ole forehead. I hauled and then stacked four loads of maple. Since we could get some strong winds later today, I moved the plow and the forks out of the woods from underneath trees. That gives us 56 plus f/c stacked with more coming out. Three more f/c "wood" be nice but I'll count on another two that will give us 58 f/c of hardwood before fall work starts.
I ended up splitting/stacking 4 mini truck loads today. My goal was three. Now, my neck shoulder is sore as heck and something is going wrong with the other shoulder. And the carpal tunnel is in all of it's glory! I'm not much for it but I'll take some ibuprofen or something tonight. Wah, wah, wah!
Has been too hot to cut for the past six days. My hands and body in general haven’t felt this good for months with the inactivity.
We from Dixie, my friend, and the same age...lol... Since I've been on 7PM-7AM shift, only working till lunch time. Yes, it's hot.
That's some nice work, my friend. Y'all have a very good inventory built up. But 65° and A/C...... Our time to pick on our northern friends.....
I should've explained better, it was 65 when we had coffee, our high temp was 82 or 83 with a dewpoint of 72, that's when I had the a/c on in the RTV.
I hauled out two more loads of maple from a different area today and finished the third stack, I did use most of the maple and beech splits/rounds that we had left on the pallets too finish off the third stack. We still have more maple in the area that I hauled out of yesterday but I'm thinking it won't be enough for me to finish the stack I started yesterday.
You do more than I do, those are some big logs you've been hauling home, buZZsaw BRAD can smell a tree going down from 30 miles away!
I think I'm just about on the 3-year plan. Last winter was my first year burning wood and my supply was limited so I only burned wood at night, and not EVERY night, so I'm not really sure how much I'll need to be on a good 3 yr plan. But I have about 7 cords CSS, and another cord (elm) still in rounds. Here's some pics of what I picked up today. Usually, just bring home the wood and stack it up at home to be split another day, but like I read here at FHC, the less I handle the wood, the better, so I split it as I unloaded it. I picked up 3 of those 33" diam red oak rounds. Oh, also, this wood I picked up today, the tree was cut down a couple of months ago. The piece I took today was from right at the base of the tree, does that usually take longer to dry out than the rest of the tree?
Those are some nice looking rounds. I had oak that was c/s/s for 4 years (top covered for 2) and some still hissed when I burned it. I usually split bigger but with oak it didn't work with some of the splits. I had the oak stacked in a high wind area with great afternoon sun. We don't have any oak on our property so the red & white oak we had was from a lady who needed what was left from a tree job removed.
Trunk wood dries as fast as the rest of the tree unless is really knotty/gnarly and tight grained. Any oak as a rule should go multiple years for ideal moisture content and burning results. Smart move to split as you unloaded and straight grained oak is fun to hand split. I really admire your tenacity getting those big chunks in your van Patrick. True hoarder determination right there.
Put into perspective, y'all still out work us. If we didn't have the tractor and dump trailer, don't think we would have much wood at all. Sure don't want to go back to old times...
