looks like you had a good day to make firewood Chris F of course, any day making firewood is a good day in my book! Nice looking wood and work!
Nice shed. That's my all time favorite tree to find any little reason whatsoever to cut down. Sometimes, it's just not having my morning coffee that persuades me to cut one down. Other times, I just don't like the way the tree is looking at me. Any reason is a good reason to cut down a boxelder. For you, it was getting a little touchy feely with the old barn. Great SS wood in my opinion.
Agreed. They're known around here as a weed tree. Gnarly and not many btu's but as you say good for SS.
Rather than start a new thread I figured I'd drop this here. Last year I finally took care of a leak I had at my well. I got in a mini excavator to dig down around the well to where I thought the problem was...at the pitless adapter. The only problem was the woodshed was in the way and also the driller drilled the well right in the existing well tiles. So after he dug it out I still wasn't able to do anything about it. The leak was so bad that I was probably squirting as much into the ground at the well as I was getting in the house. Twice I had to lower the cut out pressure because the leak was so bad it couldn't build up the pressure enough in the house to shut the pump off. The water would bubble out of the ground inside the well tile at the top and run off toward the garden. The water at the bottom of the hole is from the leak, that's why I had the sump pump there. So my solution was to smash through the well tile and install a new pitless adapter on the side where I had room to work. I closed off the old adapter from inside the well so it wouldn't leak groundwater into the well. The original water line ran right under the woodshed to the house so that meant getting the excavator back to dig a new trench around the shed and meet up with the existing water line and tap into it. So after filling the trench back in and planting grass all was good until the thaw this spring. The ground sank back down into the trench, some places around a foot and a half. This meant I couldn't transfer wood from the main shed to the smaller part where the well is. So this morning I got a load of topsoil and filled it all back in again. I had to wait until the first of June for the half load restriction to be lifted off the local roads to get a dump truck in. So now this week I'll get this small part filled back up. This is important because this wood will be dry this fall and after the basement is full I'll go to this section of the shed to restock the basement as the winter approaches and I burn some of the wood downstairs. The big part of the woodshed will by then be filled with the load I cut up this fall so this section will be the only place to get the dry stuff until the snow gets too deep to take it around to the wood door.
Ill bet you're glad that nightmare is over Chris F . Funny how water can be your best friend or worst enemy.
Yeah, I first noticed water coming up inside the well tile after watering the garden about ten years ago. It took that long to screw up the courage to finally tackle it. The pump sure turns off a lot quicker now. Just one of the joys of home ownership. It cost a grand just to get the trench dug and digging around the well but at six feet deep doing it by hand was out of the question. Just as well, there were some huge boulders he dug up.
Probably save a fair bit of electric too. Lotsa work when you own a home, but better than the alternative. Looking good now.
That's what I was thinking. I think our electric bill dropped $10 per month when we put the new well in simply because the pump does not have to run as long.
Got all the splits piled in the small part of the shed. I also got ten yards of crushed limestone to fill in the sunken water line trench where I park my truck. I haven't been able to park there since the thaw.
The shed looks great. Always nice to get things back to normal after being inconvenienced for a while
