Sounds mutually beneficial, Brad! A guy passed by while I was cutting that ash and kinda smirked at my little rounds, boasted of his bigger rig. Added that he intended on cutting up that ash. Didn’t say when, of course. I told him I’d leave him some. And I did. Some of the punkiest most fungi ridden stuff! I AM a man of my word at the end of the day, and when I go back I’ll leave him some decent stuff too. But I couldn’t resist having a little fun, since he wanted to get all braggy.
Thanks - the from you and Stephiedoll means a lot. As I have said, this forum has been invaluable in making our first burn season successful.
Today The wife said, “you’re taking a break from the wood cutting.” It’s all good. Stuff got burned anyways.
It’s good to take a quick break, too. This is on the ol’ ash table. Those following along may recall me moaning regretfully that we didn’t have the tree service leave the wood when they took this monster down.
You must be on the edge of your seat by now. “What did The Wife have planned?”, you may ask… Oh. I mean, “Ho Ho Ho!”
With all that excitement yesterday, I forgot to give Backwoods Savage his due. Advice taken, submitted for approval:
FYI, you don't need two T posts on the ends. I cut my wood 21-22" long and I just use 1 post. I have 60+ cord of wood stacked using 1 T post on each end, the oldest being from spring 2015. I also angle the posts in towards the wood a bit, as we have softer soils by us. (looks like this when looking at the stack of wood /:::::::::\ ) If you break the forces being placed on the post into force vectors, you can see that when angled like this there is a force that is pushing the t post into the ground, this helps keep the post from being pushed out. When driven in straight and if the post gets angled like this \::::::::/, then this same force vector is now wanting to pull the post out of the ground.
