New customer came by the woodyard this morning. He got 1 row of 7-8 yr old oak from the shed at the woodshop, then finished up the load with some of the rounds of white oak on the splitter ramp. They were so happy with this wood, they want a trailer load of oak and hickory. I ran the splitter and he helped move the rounds and stacked on the truck. Had 7 rounds left after his load Split them and tossed in the shed. Going to deliver our truck load Tues morning Then got the tops on the ash totes and moved them next to the holly. Even made a top for the wire baskets of chunks...
The totes worked great for splits, I like the metal bins next to them better for chunks and nuggets. Has door built in... I have 1 tote that the cage is bent in on the corner. I'm going to leave the bladder in, drill holes in the bottom and use it for chunks...
It will definitely help. We have been busy since August with firewood, but our sheds are still empty. We spent the spring doing cooking/smoker wood, 48-84 hrs/wk at my job and then most of June remodeling the bathroom. Y'all will get it done...
Finished filling a tote with chunks form the cutoffs, carried it over to our cousin's house. Then we started emptying the totes that had oil in them. Oil looks good, going to mix it with the bar oil. It's 40W to 140W... I wonder if Scotty Overkill or blacksmith have seen any like this in their RR shops... I think our local RR uses this in their train engines
Yeah we have lots of those Jeff. They don't allow scrap passes anymore for that stuff because a person or two took advantage of it. Some ruin it for all.
We got all the oil from the totes drained into 1. Don't know how many gallons it might be. Then got 2 more totes ready for use. Figured out how to make a door with the cut out. Conduit couplings. We had some splits fall out one of the first ones we did Eric VW The other tote is set up for chunks. Drilled holes in the bottom of the tank, then used 3" hole saw to cut holes in sides. Door is needed for chunks especially. Fixed a top that didn't have a cap This top is on the oil tank, water would hold in the plug, so covered it with a piece of metal This Scripture verse is so true My cousin, who we gave the cutoffs and tote of chunks to, his wife works at the oil distributor, that is where we got the totes from. We happened to talk about bar oil, she said they had it in 5 gallon cases, had a lot of loggers buy a pallet at a time from them. They had gotten 24 pallets in at a good $$. She could sell me some for $35 a case...$7/gal. She dropped of 2 cases last night. Already had the 3 gallons of Countyline brand...$12/gal. I think I have room for 2 more cases... She told me the next time they ordered, it would be more $$
Nice improvisation on the tote Jeff! I like the doors. GREAT deal on the bar oil. I paid $12/gal for a couple recently.
Used a little hoarder resourcefulness to solve a couple problems. When I had to get 3/4" couplings to go over the square tubing, the screws weren't long enough. Trip to the hardware store proved that the threads were some type of chinesium rigging......neither standard or metric size or thread.... So, I drilled and installed a small sheet metal screw where the coupling screw would land... Tightens up now After making the chunk totes, I had the tops that were cut off. As I was headed to the dump with them, I drove by this bin we use for splitter scrap/kindling...it had been covered with a piece of tin that didn't fit too well...did a little ... Added the 2x4 in the middle to give some slope... Then fastened 2 of the tops on it...works great...
During deer season, I found a big beech limb had fallen and a water oak fell close to 1 of the stands. Saved this much of the beech, And this much of the oak... It had gotten really bad at the base of the trunk, the reason it fell. When it got this much punk in the center, I left it The rest looked worse... In the process of getting this home, O found a small cherry that looked like it was dying and a big cherry that was no doubt standing dead. Big cherry Beech and small cherry bucked The big cherry tested great... Put 2 totes to use...hickory, cherry and dogwood chunks Dogwood, cherry and beech splits Got a few green cherry splits from the small tree to put on the cooking pile...
Found out hindsight really is 20/20... After several rows fell during early winter We realized I should have divided it with a wall. Got it restacked on 1 side, Going to use pallets for the wall, braced the 2 leaning stacks at the top, got one side ready for more hickory
Had a new customer become a repeat customer, needed another truck load. We had 1 older oak log from a recent score left, got it split and loaded, then finished the load with the seasoned hickory we had moved to 1 side of the shed We then had time to add supports to the wall we are building. Going to add 2 more pallets high and then cut 2 down to fit up to the leaning stack
Went to the woodshed after work last night. Wanted to get something accomplished for the day. Had a short row to prop up and move the cribbing on the end. Got that done and was able to finish the divider wall. I then started restacking some of the limb wood and a few splits against the new wall.
Took a little vacation, so now it's time to get back to work on the woodyard. Let the Echo 2511T and Husky 55 play nice together. I heard the 'Bota whining in the tractor shed, so I let it out to enjoy some sun and work. Got 6 hickory logs out and bucked, 3 logs in the picture 6 logs staged for the splitter Cut a hickory round into bowl blanks Also cut some pecan blanks Got 7 logs bucked yesterday, split those this morning
