Hopefully I’m not stealing anything anyone posted...shame on me if I did sight unseen. What’s your plan(s) wood wise and if you’re gonna take the high or low road outta town??? No plans set in stone for Summer yet but likely just a good bit of crabbing if I can get the damm boat to stop leaking! Wood wise, the stacks gotta be moved. I know I know, I shouldn’t but let me give ya reassurance it’s for the better. This year I made a lot of rookie mistakes and whilst I stacked my wood in the wind, it wasn’t optimal in terms of keeping things dry and spaced out. Also wind would hit the stacks perpendicularly and I know that can be cleaned up a bit and pit wood can be more organized too. I just look at my stacks and know I can do my neighbors and myself a favor. So likely moving my North to South stacks more to the back and lay them out East West Lengthwise with at least wheelbarrow width. Might also help with water that pools up in the yard and hopefully I can get a fruit tree or two in back with the space made more roomier effectively. Sorry no pictures yet. But I might as well get on the roof soon and show you the birds eye view on this whole thing. Hell I might even be able to build my wood shed I keep flapping my gums about. We’ll see how far this goes. At least I’m moving less wet wood this year, finishing the oak branches and apple limbs. Hard to pass up on wood that can be used with the bbq that’s for sure! Looking forward to hearing about it all.
Well as far as wood goes, I have 4 cord of splits in piles that need to get off the ground and a truck load of logs on the way if the mud ever dries up. Along with a cluster of maples that are uncomfortably close to the house that will come down. The chimney will need to be swept. And a proper outdoor fire pit be built. As far as fun goes some camping, striper fishing, weekends at the camp in Maine and time at the beach with the family. Oh and a trip to my FIL in Penna I’m sure is on the list. Summer is way too short around her!
My summer plans is to build one of these so that I can process my firewood. I have a pot bellied stove so I use small wood. My feller-buncher was part one of a two machine process, so now I must get moving on the second part of that. This is the basic design, I will modify it a bit so I can feed it directly with my log loader and make the build a bit simpler.
I’ve thought of this but let’s be really realistic, I am unsure of doing that because it may require a welder. Not that they are huge holes but might require some kinda patch job first then this...
The immediate thing I have to do is move a big stack of red maple out of the side yard, and into the woodshed. By April 9th, when we're having a heat pump/AC mini-split installed (husband's project). It seemed doable before all the snow. I'm praying for a heat wave. This spring I will move the rest of next year's wood into the woodshed. I have enough split red maple to totally fill the shed (two cords at least), but I've got oak that I want to burn next winter too. So I'm thinking of stacking next winter's oak in the basement, where we run dehumidifiers all summer. This would mean reorganizing the basement. Once all that maple and oak is put away, the pool patio is clear again. Instead of stacking new wood on the patio, I want to stack on a strip of vegetation that runs between the patio pavers and the fenceline. I'll use pallets on cinder blocks, with metal t-posts as support. I like to string wire from post to post along the top, an idea I picked up here. It makes them really stable. It seems like a lot of work, but at least I've got next winters' wood ready to go, which is further ahead than I've ever been.
Thanks! Perhaps I’ll give it a try next time. Last few times we have left our house around 9pm. Less people on the road and the kids sleep the whole way.
Let's see,.. Css'ing red oak Week at Cape Cod/brewster - early April Css'ing red oak WellSeasoned's gtg - early June Css'ing red oak Week at Cape Cod/hyannis - mid June Css'ing red oak Wood stack reorg Css'ing red oak Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
I try to get all my wood c/s/s in the winter so I can start fishing in the spring. This winter was bad for working outside, either brutally cold or too warm and wet, so I will be working into the spring months. Then Gatlinburg for spring break. Traverse City for summer vacation And Orange beach Alabama during fall break. Then time to move wood for next winter.
I'm a slave to the grind about 9 months out of the year.. Summers suck ! The upside is Ill retire by my mid 50's. I may be moving this summer so wood will be delayed till fall or maybe not at all. My wood is all seasoned in a pile next door in an equipment yard so it can stay wether I move or not.
I'm a teacher and sell firewood. I work on firewood one way or another almost year round but summer is my "go time."
Nice, I’m a para so this is where and when I get stuff done too. Makes a really nice way of filling the time you would have liked to during the year and get things fixed back to square one.
We are going to see Mickey Mouse next month but after that, Ill focus on the 3 year plan. I'm getting closer, id say, I'm half way (or more) there. I just need to get in the woods before the snakes do.
No doubt I'll have a bunch of wood to stack after our GTG 4/21. Summer time also means garden work. Some food plot work. Hope to get in a bunch of bike riding this summer too.
