No, I mean not yet, the wife recently got the idea that one is needed by the little fun pool for the grandkids. But she hasn’t thought it clear through, (as usual).
Oh, I’m by no means in favor of getting one. If’n you don’t take it down daily, the weather will thrash it. If you don’t take it down regularly then you get to mow around it. If you do put it up and take it down after every use you spend a lot of time and effort doing such and usually requires more than one person. I’d much rather spend a couple grand on a permanent carport or something similar. And as far as building bundles…. I can get up earlier and do it while it’s cooler and then I have shade with my current arrangement, or….. I can wait till later after it cools down and if I have to I can do it by lantern light, or…I can just not be a pansy and pull up my big boy pants and do what needs done when it needs doing.
Same here, I have gone through a couple "sun sails" though. Not expensive so can replace every other summer or so for some relief from direct sun (no trees here for shade).
Hope your bundling business is a going. Grandsons ask me for a way to make some money good thread. Be safe out in them woods this weekend. Deer/Hunters.
My thoughts for bundles. Local grocery store doesn’t sell camp fire wood. Also thinking of a little camp firewood stand. I bring it down the mountains. They take it back up. Mostly to help grandson learn there is money in those trees you just have to work for it.
I thought I’d post this here. Nothing special just a load of 30 bundles ready for delivery to the convenience store up the road 30 miles
Some nice dry looking firewood. How have sales been? 30 is a normal delivery to my three local stores.
So,… this is what, my 3rd year maybe? I’m guessing I’ve sold right at 2 cords, maybe a tad more. Halsey location has become my best customer. Local grocery store hasn’t done much this year. And this load to the kwik stop will most likely get well into the fall. Biggest problem is I’m basically out of any bundle wood that is ready to go. Gonna have to do some processing in the heat this week.
Dry splits or you need to split rounds? My biggest dilemma is keeping an inventory of dry splits. I separate out bundle splits (I'm very picky about quality) as I split and they get stacked on their own next door. Certain species (mostly BL, oak, hickory) never go to bundles.
I don’t have much variety as far as species. I need to split rounds. It’s from Target rich environment!!! last time I split some and checked it with the meter it was in the lower teens for moisture. I too, am pretty fussy about split quality for my bundles, which is a challenge with the trees I get. I have a bunch of pine logs from I need another project……NOT!!!! that I’m sure will dry rapidly but I don’t think they will split very well/cleanly. to many knots from branches. I’ma gonna have to experiment a bit with em. This elm is so dry I think the rounds would shatter into splits if’n I drop them on a concrete slab. Splits nice and clean
