Got a phone call from a number I didn't recognize yesterday. I picked up, because the last few unknown calls I've gotten have been funny; telemarketers from Korea. This one was from a couple towns over, and was not a telemarketer, but a fellow I had picked up some wood from a couple years ago. I had driven by when he was unloading a garden cart of pine by the roadside, did a quick 180, and filled the truck. Saved him a bit of work going down the steep driveway with the rest, loading unloading etc. The take was a couple light truckloads, but I left him my number as he had a very neat yard with a lot of encroachment of the tree line. I figured someday he'll lose some of those trees, and maybe I'll get a call. Fast forward a couple years, and I got the call. Just a couple ash at this time (there's one more load this size that I'll get Monday) but he's planning to clean up the perimeter this year so there should be another dozen or so loads like this coming. Or eight if I fill the truck. I offered to buck, but he likes to run the saw and has a pretty good eye, with pretty much everything measuring 16-18". He even insists on helping me load! I'll bring a few jars of Mrs Papi's home grown Apple pie filling on the next trip.
Me too! Guy said this was bucked for about a year now - I believe it with the easy bark peeling Mrs Papi just accomplished when she came outside to see what I was up to in the garage. She grabbed up a foo-bar and got most of the load stripped in a half hour. Why? She likes peeling bark... I don't ask, she doesn't tell. Just started her second trimester with #3, so this is about all the help she'll be with the wood processing this year. I'll take it, she's a peach.
HA! Mines a peeler also Papi and I just keep my yap shut. Sounds like you have a good guy to know and good for you. Oh ya..I get that same call on the phone and I let it ride out as that little china woman sounds hot.
BigPapi you have it really nice now. Someone calls with firewood when it is ready, wife helps when you get it home and expecting another addition to the family. Happy Easter.
Great score BigPapi! Nice when you leave your info and get called, albeit a while later! Hats off to the Mrs. Papifor helping! What is a foo bar? New FHC term/tool ive never heard?
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Stanley-...=sem&msclkid=9ea7b9753ca9135a2c6ee5c83bc13dac Just a basic demo/prybar. Mine isn't quite as aggressive, but it gets used all the time. Great for popping nails, separating trim boards from the wall, etc.
I am blessed and grateful! I was worried about sourcing enough wood to complete the three year plan, as there won't be much of any wood chores after #3 arrives in October. Now this, and a large pile of what looks like sugar maple logs I just got permission to cut on. Add in what's already here waiting to be css, and with luck I'll be four or five years ahead by fall. I'll be sweating out a few pounds this summer and couldn't be more thankful!
cool tool BigPapi . I use the basic pry bar all the time for work, but havent seen one like that. Looks like the perfect tool for removing bark. Is it sharp on the edge...used like a mini machete?
Mine is angled but not sharpened on the edge. Good to slip under the bark and just roll around the log. I'm not in the habit of peeling bark, but Mrs Papi could spend a day doing it. This had been down and cut for a year, so it wanted to let go of its bark anyway. Just split the load, and almost all of it is bark free. Made for neat work, and will be less mess coming in the house. Maybe she's on to something!
BigPapi most of the wood i process is "green and clean", but have acquired a lot of wood the last several months that is either dead or seasoned enough to lose its bark. Im starting to be a fan of this after being on the forum a couple months. Does make for cleaner wood and faster seasoning for sure. I usually will take the axe and pry it off if loose enough.
Grabbed the rest today - about the same amount after accounting for a handful of 6-7" piles he was going to burn in the brush pile. All processed, just gotta stack. Too rainy for pics, but I'll try tomorrow. EAB is doing its thing in full force here now - this tree was newly infested by the galleries I saw, and the owner reported it being a healthy tree when he cut it last year. Very few exit wounds that I could see. Another on his property was further along, showing a few healthy limbs that will leaf out this year, but doomed like they all are. He was uninformed, so I tried to offer some know ledge, what I have anyway. Brad, green and clean is nicer to process, but I do like the idea of a bunch of bark free splits drying and leaving the mess outdoors.
im starting to agree more and more BigPapi , although the gnarly white oak i was noodling today had the bark already gone and this weird lavender colored fungus was starting to grow on the sapwood.
