I really need to get my butt in gear. I have a bunch of rounds that still need to be split. I think I can handle them without borrowing the splitter, so that will keep me busy. But I also need to get hoarding, problem is this summer has been pretty busy one between keeping kids busy, vacations, bathroom reno, etc... I haven't had much time and you really need to be Johnny on the spot fast with grabbing stuff of CL and FB.
Hope it will slow down so you can grab those gifts of wood... We were swamped with grass cutting and my job last year, we didn't get all the sheds full or all the logs processed...been better so far this year.
We made it to the wood yard yesterday evening about 8:15, enjoyed some high 80's temps. Had 13 nice rounds to do. The shed when we started... Got it all SSS( split, sorted, stacked) It is all clean, bark free, heartwood. The other pieces go in cull pile for fire pit/ burn barrel. Finished up about 10:00. The shed when we finished. Got to get more logs now. I have some older hickory and some newer oak logs, wonder which I should put in there.
Don't know what kind of ant this is, but I hope y'all don't have them. They will bite the pizz out of you...glad they don't make a fester sore like the fire ants do. They get under the bark, or in the soft sap, on the ground under the logs, don't seem to eat the wood much, like big carpenter ants do.
We have been hauling logs from my sister's house and bucking them for the splitter, still got a few more up there. That's skid full #4 waiting to be bucked.
The pile when we stopped bucking and started splitting. Got the first 2 rows SS. We should be in the bigger rounds tomorrow, make better progress...
[QUOTE="Chazsbetterhalf, post: 996763, member: 5645"You have wood all over the place. Lol[/QUOTE] LOL......he sure does, I'd be floating on cloud 9 if I had that much wood laying around...................
Got to try to stay young and mobile...lol... barely young or mobile this morning....... pretty stiff...
I think around 10-11 cords. This will be the first time in a couple years all sheds are full. Grass cutting was slow this year. Guess what, we got more pallets, lumber and metal panels to build more sheds...
That splitting vertical will do that, I started splitting horizontal after talking with Well Seasoned who had talked with SKEETER McCLUSKEY who apparently had talked with papadave who had gotten some good info from amateur cutter who spoke with Mrs. Backwoods Savage , just sayin!
Actually, I think just sawing and moving the rounds kinda made my back stiff. Didn't split much. I don't mind horizontal splitting smaller stuff. When we were processing this, had some 26-30" rounds, we quartered or halved them with the red splitter, and then moved them to the other horizontal splitter, that's when I pulled a major muscle in my back. Stared using back support then...lol...oh, and I was using the hand tongs too...
