You Sir are a wise man. Excellent advice. The wood thing is for the cold months. I play 18 holes of golf every day weather permitting, walking always. My orchard takes a fair amount of time too. I have a chemical applicator's license and a very small lawn care business specializing in large lawns over 1 acre fertilizing and chemical applications. I try not to work more than 9 days a year at that though. Here is a few shots of the orchard:
If your back seat can fold up (extended cab trucks), do that, when make a plywood platform that you can lift in and out as needed. When I bought our '11 Silverado new, the first thing I did was make a plywood platform. I think in the last 8 yrs the back seats have seen day light maybe a dozen times.
Magnificent, a real work of living art there. I watched a lot of YouTube about the kind of orchards you are growing when you first posted what you are doing.
I carry two tarps and a doggy seat cover for those times when you have to take it while it's there. I also keep a wedge and a 2lb mallet in the trunk for those ones that are two big to lift. I'm considering buying a newer vehicle that will have considerably less storage space so not sure if it will be a good vehicle for 'wood fishun'
I totally get where your coming from. I was suggesting spending $600 to get a crazy amount wood to your house. Let the equipment do the heavy lifting, then buck the wood and split as you can.
Get your lazy rear out of bed and get to it! C'mon Salley, quit you're whinning and do something. GEEEEZZ.
F B. You have a serious conundrum that requires a serious solution. Relax we are here to help. While not being a member of a country club I have driven by some. In the warmer months I've noticed people swinging golf clubs for what appears to be some sort of recreation. They have little tiny silent cars they drive around in. Bandit, if you can convince enough people that swinging lets say a Fiskars axe will help their golf swing, Well then now my friend we're getting somewhere. Yes you can be at the land owners and your fellow members can be doing some winter training while also getting some useful work done. But keeping that swing is what they should focus on.
I tell my buddies that my phenomenal "touch" around the greens is the result of swinging an 8# maul. However I am often referred to as "fists of concrete too".
Seriously though, A nice problem to have. Being that close I think I'd grab it and if nothing else, keep it close to work up when you can't get out. I know you probably don't have the space but when they put a gas pipeline through Dad's farm they told us to take all we wanted as they were just going to push it all down and burn it. We worked like gangbusters and put all the big, to be split stuff in a barn as we had 2 months till they were moving through. We'd split on rainy days when it wasn't fit. Saw when it's wet, haul when it was dry or froze enough. We got 100 cord and we both were working full time jobs. Being close is worth a lot as you know.
To quote one of my favorite movies...... "Save all you can" From "Day After Tomorrow" which is a perfect movie to watch in the winter to stoke the fire building spirits....
I am a little stiff today from cutting the dirty pile the last two days. Did a truck and small trailer by myself Wed., yesterday a friend helped and we maxed out the 18' 10,000 trailer. The golf course still doesn't have any snow cover and the wood can't be moved yet. One more big trailer load and my 150' row, 4 rows deep and 4' high of rounds will be full, will have to start another row.
