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2018 & 2019 Firewood Work

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by thewoodlands, Aug 24, 2018.

  1. Well Seasoned

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    Nice woody! Heat moving in again soon!
     
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    It sure is, maybe this will be our last shot of really warm weather. My plans are the same even though we have some hot weather coming in, more splitting and stacking until the body says otherwise.

    I have some stump removal coming up this week along with some work on the driveway using the bucket so I'll be busy.
     
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  3. thewoodlands

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    I wonder how much this will change or how much will make its way up here.

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    Tis the season for hurricanes and flooding. Ocean temps awful warm this year
     
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    The last two days I changed the gaskets on both the wood and pellet stoves along with a spark plug and a oil change on the lawnmower. I also cleaned off the bottom of the lawnmower (push) and cleaned the air filter.

    Today was an oil change on the wife's vehicle with a stop at the doc's office for my flu shot and a few stops to shoot the chit with some friends.

    Tomorrow I'll get back to splitting before it gets real hot out and then do the oil change on the older splitter on Thursday.
     
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    Finally got the butt cut from the big white oak to the processing area and next in line is a big water oak that's been cut about 16 months. Sap area is a little punky, but should be able to get about 26" of solid heart wood. I'll leave a little heart wood with the sap and burn it at my mom's, she has a Fisher stove, it's not picky, as long as you feed it...lol...maybe some of yay'a have more experience with MM than I do. I've used it on lumber,where only one light was on, but how much is this reading? Both red and white oak logs were reading the same...
     

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    Where’s the ‘struction book?
    :whistle:
    :D
     
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    :whistle::whistle::(:eek:
    It's only about 25-30 yrs old. It was my dad's.
     
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    Is that a high n low reading (2 lights lit at the same time?
     
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    I split some beech until noon today, lots of water did the trick. The first two pictures are the beech I split, the third is the junk beech which will get burned in the outside fireplace and the rest of the pictures is what I have left to split.
     

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    It was a hot one today nice work!
     
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    I don't.know, I was thinking it might be outside the range of the numbers, like maybe 28%???
     
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    This was my guess as well....:yes:

    You could drop $15 bucks on Amazon for a shiny new Chinese cheapie MM-
    Then you’d at least be in the digital age...:whistle:
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    I added to the pile today before we did some grocery shopping, I'll split what's left in the second picture and keep what's good.

    After I split the rest then it's stacking time, after it's stacked I'll get after the next pile.
     

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    Those are some nice size rounds, nice work.
     
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    It'll be much more pleasurable processing with this cold air moving in this weekend!:thumbs:
     
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    Booyah..
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    Supposed to stay in the 60's around here.
    I'm sooooo happy.
    :D:thumbs:
     
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    That's for sure, I have some nice storm damage back in on our other lot so it's almost time to get that out.

    Picture 1692 is beech and the next two are maples but not sure what kind yet.
     

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    I didn't do any firewood work today but made sure the chimney on both the wood & pellet stove were clean along with the stove pipe on the inside.

    We put some wood in since we have a frost advisory tonight, we'll have a fire tonight with one tomorrow morning over coffee.

    We have some good rains coming in on Monday so tomorrow we'll put in a few loads even though the weather will turn nice.
     
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    I went out back and :saw:,:axe:,:stacker:some wood yesterday morning it was in the 80's went out today much better in the 60's 20180908_110039.jpg 20180908_111036.jpg 20180908_111238.jpg 20180908_111259.jpg
    tomorrow suppose to be in the 40's. should be able to get a lot more CSS.
     
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