Between snow storms and a 2.75” rain storm keeping me from getting back to splitting, I finally got it done yesterday. Put 6 hours on the splitter and have 8 pieces left that were frozen to the ground. Still have to split the apple wood as well.
Missed the updates on this. Six hours is a good day on the splitter. Thinking my longest session was maybe four hours on a generic hydro. Is that to be stacked or put in totes?
I tend to spend a day splitting at a time, with other commitments and meetings taking up mornings right now it’s more like 2/3 of a day splitting. Longest splitting day was a 1o hour run when the splitter was new, I was working 60+ hours a week and only had weekends to get things done. Trying to get things done before I’m stuck inside doing nothing. In 2 months I’ll be back at it, as I’m having carpal tunnel release surgery on both hands this coming week. This wood will refill the totes, send a couple cord to the in laws, and the rest will get stacked for 2 winters from now. I’m working on convincing the wife to get 24 more totes or a dump trailer, the in-laws don’t have a tractor big enough to move a tote. If I wanted to sell some wood locally and get gravel/rock at the quarry it would justify the cost of a dump trailer.
Best of luck with the surgery. Don't know if I could survive that long without firewooding, although I did survive the several weeks with snow cover.
Thanks! Luckily when we met with the surgeon we convinced them doing one at a time would ruin half the year, and I’ll suffer through 2 months of little use. At least it will be mud season, so I’ll miss that. Wife is already planning on lots of forest walks to inventory our hemlock trees in prep for getting a plan for cutting them next winter. Planning on getting 25MBF worth of logs in the yard next winter to saw into lumber and start building a garage with.
We got 5” of snow and then some rain, did some snow removal and hauled a tote of firewood down to the house. Grabbed the empty totes and placed around the firewood pile incase spring comes late and mud season lasts longer than normal. Grabbed a pic of the snow covered pile before placing the totes.
Haven’t updated this thread since the surgery a month ago. Hands are as good as new, incisions are healed up, slight pain when lifting heavy objects, but it will go away with time. Have been out in the wood yard filling 2 totes a day, which is all my wrists want at this point. Wife has helped as well, we have got 9 filled out of the 14 empty ones. It’s supposed to rain later in the week, so caps are already on the filled ones. Still have to take the chains off the tractor, but I’m going to give myself another week before I tackle that task. Wife has offered to help, but they weigh more than she does, and they can sit another week. I’ve missed running the saws a lot, I did sneak out onto the excavator once, and pulled some stumps for a few hours. Once the pain is gone, I’ve got a bunch of cutting to do.
Glad the surgery went well and you’re getting back on track! Leaving chains on won’t hurt just took mine off Thursday as it was time to move gravel! Here chains and blower stay on until peepers start singing
Great to see you back in action. Glad all went well and your almost back to 100%. Good feeling to be making firewood again after an extended layoff.
Both tractors are still setup for winter, and snow removal. I’ll get them swapped over this weekend. My lists of tractor tasks is very long, but first is raking the loam I spread around the new irrigation pond. Once that’s done I’ll get it seeded, and the wife will plant some flowers, and we can set the Adirondack chairs out there and enjoy it. I’ve still got a lot of wood to cut up and split, for future use, that I’ll get to at some point as well. All in all the surgery was a great thing to have done. The pain used to wake me up at night, and limit some things I would do. I’ve noticed some of the ways I had adapted to using some tools to avoid the pain, and am slowly correcting it. I’m sleeping much better now, and starting to notice the extra energy from it. If other people have this issue, I would recommend getting the surgery done sooner than later!
