Chaz, I hope this has been a good and profitable week for you and hope you got lots of wood in the barn too. Nice locker and I'd bet you could put another one to good use. Keep up the good work.
Picture wouldn't be the same without my corporate sponsor. It has been Dennis. Took yesterday off, was starting on the pile when my friend stopped by this morning. Well, we BS'd till 2, and now its 84° +55% humidity. Still gonna work on getting something salvaged from the day, but missed the "golden hours" of the morning. Still got a few days off, and slightly cooler weather is supposed to come in.
Well, technically he's a "brother from another mother".. best friend since we met and got into a fistfight in 7th grade. I have only sister's in immediate family. He and his family will be OK, the union wages have been good over the years, and his wife is in healthcare industry. Only outstanding debt they carry is on his truck, and that's less than $4K. He's taking the summer off.
I am fed up and tired as F@$$ dealing with this stringy chit. Splits for crap, stacks for crap. The only thing that can be said for it... Each split comes with its own kindling. I believe it's beech.. perhaps someone can verify.
Doesn't look like any beech to me. Looks like it might be some type of gum, not sure about your types of trees up there. Can you grind a sharper edge on the splitter wedge. Really helps when we get stringy wood.https://youtube.com/shorts/NmYI5tytVpU?feature=share
Hey all, been a LONG time since I posted anything. Spent too much of the summer out of commission due to rib injury from ATV incident on July 4th. Followed be the knee surgery in September. So, needless to say, not much wood got put up. But after the splitter came back in mid October, I've been hitting the stacks a bit at a time, and have put up roughly 3.25 cord for the year, and we used right around 2.5 cord last winter. Had some help yesterday putting more logs up at the barn, waiting to be CSS now. Third rack should be done this weekend, if not sooner, so I'll be filling it 1 row deep as well. Rack (internal) dimensions are 15 ft length, and 8ft high, but I can only stack to 7.5 ft. 18 inch splits, so each single row is pretty much 1.25 cord. So once I'm ahead far enough to go 2 rows deep, each full rack should be enough for a winter. And out of logs.. Will have to get a pic of the new logpile, but I had a LOT of bark to burn up on Saturday.
Thanks Also on the plus side.. have only used about 20-25 G of fuel oil so far, and still have about 150 G in reserve. Don't intend to be purchasing any of that at the current prices.
Thanks. We will, you don't think Jill's gonna let it get below 80°F in the house. BTW.. a moisture check on the wood that's set to burn shows 17-18%. fresh split of course.
Sorry I missed this earlier, I want really on FHC this past summer. I too am not a big fan of German owned US companies, however I find that they vary greatly, like everything else. I currently work for a large German owned company that was an established brand in the US. Seeing that we do our own thing, the Germans leave us to do our own thing, and I don't think that will change as long as the numbers look good. They invested a huge amount of $$ into a brand new, state of the art 250,000 sq ft US HQ manufacturing and offices. All of the top brass are great people, very personable too. Now I have worked for a German HQ'd US branch manufacturer, that was more of a schit show...
