Our Wood Yard Adventures

Heck of a day's work, great job.

 

Between snow storms and a 2.75” rain storm keeping me from getting back to splitting, I finally got it done yesterday. Put 6 hours on the splitter and have 8 pieces left that were frozen to the ground. Still have to split the apple wood as well.

 

Missed the updates on this. Six hours is a good day on the splitter. Thinking my longest session was maybe four hours on a generic hydro.

Is that to be stacked or put in totes?

 

That's a nice adventure on the woodyard. Well done, sir

 

I tend to spend a day splitting at a time, with other commitments and meetings taking up mornings right now it’s more like 2/3 of a day splitting. Longest splitting day was a 1o hour run when the splitter was new, I was working 60+ hours a week and only had weekends to get things done. Trying to get things done before I’m stuck inside doing nothing. In 2 months I’ll be back at it, as I’m having carpal tunnel release surgery on both hands this coming week.

This wood will refill the totes, send a couple cord to the in laws, and the rest will get stacked for 2 winters from now.

I’m working on convincing the wife to get 24 more totes or a dump trailer, the in-laws don’t have a tractor big enough to move a tote. If I wanted to sell some wood locally and get gravel/rock at the quarry it would justify the cost of a dump trailer.

 

Thank you sir!! I’ve got many more days planned out there to get caught up with wood piles.

 

Best of luck with the surgery. Don't know if I could survive that long without firewooding, although I did survive the several weeks with snow cover.

 

Thanks! Luckily when we met with the surgeon we convinced them doing one at a time would ruin half the year, and I’ll suffer through 2 months of little use. At least it will be mud season, so I’ll miss that.

Wife is already planning on lots of forest walks to inventory our hemlock trees in prep for getting a plan for cutting them next winter. Planning on getting 25MBF worth of logs in the yard next winter to saw into lumber and start building a garage with.

 

We got 5” of snow and then some rain, did some snow removal and hauled a tote of firewood down to the house. Grabbed the empty totes and placed around the firewood pile incase spring comes late and mud season lasts longer than normal. Grabbed a pic of the snow covered pile before placing the totes.