Doug must have heard I had more room for wood now. A friend called and said he had just seen a Doug Fir taken down about 4 blocks from his house and got permission to take the wood. He lives a block from me. We took out a trailer load and 2 medium pickup loads today. That cleared up the small and medium stuff so tomorrow back with the splitter to get the big boys. Have to break them down to manageable size. Yes Backwoods Savage we will be going vertical on these. I just hope no one I know sees me!. The pictures are not that great and don't really reflect the amount of wood there on the other side but tomorrow I'll get some pics of the big boys before we cut. Incidentally, my neighbor Lady who gets all the shorts I generate for her smaller stove, just had a small area of easement property that we share cleaned out. Says I can stack wood there also.Room for about 3 more cords there.
Hang on! We're making progress in changing how you split wood! Remember, God grew them vertically. So maybe we should follow?
I thought it was "When we fall them they lay horizontally so that is how we should split them". The age old debate! I have got to find a cartoon of two caveman at a splitter arguing "horizontal or vertical"! One of them will have a milk crate and a pillow made of stuffed sabre toothed tiger skin!
I ended up drawing my own cartoon complete with a milk carton with the sabertooth tiger hide pillow and tail.
Aint it great. Looks like some primo wood! Hoard on my friend hoard on! Wanna see lots of follow up pics
They do lay horizontally when the fall, but so do humans. But then we get back up to stand vertically once again. So vertical is healthy. Stand that splitter vertically!
Finally got back with Doug yesterday. Hotter than heck but still filled my buddies pickup twice. Bucked and quartered with the saw then split up the quarters. He will still need to process the splits a little smaller. One more day should finish this tree off. I wore my straw hat and wanted to wear a mask while using the splitter vertical. Unfortunately people would still recognize the truck. While we were working a guy stopped to ask if we sold firewood. Said he didn't want to buy any but just had 6 smaller Fir trees (16"- 18") taken down and did we want them?We will go look at them next few days.
Absolutely no rest for the wicked (and old)! As I was standing there, hot, sweaty, dirty and tired, I almost chased him off! I realized, though, that I could loose my Hoarders card if we didn't at least go look at it. Sounds like it might be nice wood to work on after this beast here.
metalcuttr ,Midwinter You are forgetting the end of that saying; There is no rest for the wicked and the righteous don't need any.
