I did have some tequila afterwards, but starting fluid for the Tecumseh on the splitter. Lol. I shortened a few rounds the other day after work and then ran a tank of gas out of the splitter. I then ran another tank of gas through the splitter and shortened more logs to split. I'll get pics of my progress after dinner tonight.
Ok. Here's how the pile sits tonight after shortening a few, probably about 10% of the entire stash, and then splitting a bunch. Bottom right of this picture are ones that I need to shorten before splitting. The last trailer load hasn't really been touched. I'll unload it round by round, right onto the splitter as long as they are the the right length The pieces to the lower front right is campfire wood. Most of what's in this picture is split from this score. Honestly barely any is not still prime. If you look at the splits, it's solid wood. There's some honey locust splits in the center of the picture at the bottom. Those were split last fall and I left them out of the shed to start drying HL needs 3 years to dry here, when in my shed. Since I have my tractor in the last bay of the shed for now, I can't really put any fresh cut HL in the shed until it's been out and cut/ split for a year. That should change as I'm putting a replacement garden shed up on the place of my current garden shed,, which is not big enough and getting to the point where I either need to repair it or replace it.
got a load delivered yesterday from one of my customers white oak and sugar maple. had to take some off by hand as load was to heavy for system to dump. also got a little saw time in . pardon my finger, that box is some 20-25 foot long. sorry forgot grab a pic of the whole thing dumped.
Ok, I went out today and shortened and then split more of this score. It's supposed to rain all day tomorrow so today was it for me until Monday at best. Here's how far I got today. There's more on the left and a couple on the right that need shortening before splitting. But I pretty much got all that were not in the trailer, that were short enough to split done. I ran two tanks of gas through the splitter. The splitter pile is growing. Only a couple of rounds that were punky and will be fire pit wood. Even though I had to shorten only a couple rounds. I found metal. Grrr it's safe to say I need to sharpen the chain on the ms170. On 2 rounds. There were a few more mails that the splitter found, which is far more preferable than the chainsaw. Then it started to rain.
Ok. All done with this score, aside from stacking it in the shed. There's enough firewood for campfires, but most of it, probably 95% or so was solid wood. From the north From the west end The back side pic... So next I'll need to stack this in the shed. I'll empty out all of the existing stuff in the far bay, and stack that in the center bay to fill that up for next year.
Yep. That long nail was hit about as badly as it could've been. That was a stock ms170 super pico micro extra small tiny double negative XL chain. Lol. I haven't looked at it to see his bad it is yet. Hopefully it can be salvaged, but I should get a couple of loops for it anyway.
Who said ya can't get 2, 6.5box loads in a 8ft box? all rd oak . this was waiting for last thursday at my shop.
Moved a trailer load of honey locust that was cut and split last Spring. I brought up some chunks and semi punky ash pieces up for an outdoor fire tonight if we want. You can see that all at the top of this load. It's just a gorilla cart full of the outdoor wood, the rest is all the honey locust. You can see the bay on the left, that is what's left from this year, plus about a face cord on the patio. I'm going to pull all that's in this left bay, full up the center bay, and start the left bay out for 26-27 with all fresh wood. Most of what's in that left bay is from a couple of years ago. I'll use this leftover wood to fill up the last row for next winter, in the center bay.
