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Splitting in the dark

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by Matthewchopswood, Nov 19, 2019.

  1. Horkn

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    Yeah, I'll stick it out a little bit, misting or light rain, but it's it's pouring rain, I'm done. Good thing I didn't move to Oregon when I met my wife. She lived there, and I lived in Wisconsin. She wanted out, and was already a Packer fan. So it was easy...

    Nice work B.Brown !! That's a good load!
     
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    What are "Packers" ? And who is a "Tom Brady" ? :headbang:
     
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  3. Horkn

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    13 time world champion Green Bay Packers. While I never mentioned him, Tom Brady is the guy that may or may not be the quarterback for that Massachusetts team next season.
     
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    damm, try to make funny and some guy corrects. Can't win .:hair:
    Yes I know, just making light of team fanatics. I blew it. :faint:
    Hey what's a LIV without the Patriots ? It's all 'cause Gronk left.
    Brady will play until Medicare.....bet on it.
     
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    OK, OK. I am biased. Bet your first born that Brady will not leave his HOME. $$$$$.
    What would my classmate owner do without #12 ? Leave Brookline, Mass ?!? And Msr. Belichick ? :confused:
     
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    I wouldn't make that bet.
     
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    Good choice H.
    Hey BTW, what's "choochin'" ?
     
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    Lol

    Long story, but funny. A lot of us here used that term for a fire that's nice and hot.

    Some guy on YouTube started it, and it's kind of funny.
     
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    It seams like night time is about the only time I can get anything done. I had to put some LED lights in my splitting shed just to get some wood busted. But I would not trade it for the world. It’s good for the mind.
     
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    Nothing wrong with that. And I can relate to the time issue.
     
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    Temperature hit 101* today and I’ve had a load from my “heap of hackberry” score in the pickup for a week. Needed to get it unloaded and I wasn’t about to unload then handle it again to split and stack it. So I waited until dark and fired up 3 Colemans then the splitter. 8C05E8D4-270A-4988-A0D8-9063F3E4D17D.jpeg 93D82D8D-F800-41CA-B46B-9F44E2F8D074.jpeg Weather app on my phone said the temperature was 88 at the time I took the pictures. Didn’t feel bad at all, had a good breeze.
    You could almost feel steam coming out of the splits. They been sitting in full sun and 90+ degrees for the last week. Easy to understand why wood (especially hackberry and cottonwood) can start getting rotten in a short time if left unspilt.

    PRO TIP: try to keep the lanterns a fair distance from your work, they tend to draw bugs in the warmer weather
     
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    Nice.
    Best way to beat the heat and time crunch. We finally got a canopy tent for shade and weather. 0824202037_HDR.jpg
     
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    with temps like that i dont blame you for midnight splitting. Nice looking stacks.
     
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    Thanks for the compliment on the stacks. Less than 2 years ago you would have been hard pressed to find more than a 1/2 pickup load of split wood at my place. See what this place will do to ya!!
     
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    Tell me about it! Aint it great though! :saw: :axe:
    Hoard on my friend! :tree:Hoard on!
    Years back when i owned a house i would love the first really cold Winter days in December. Frozen ground with no snow cover. Being that the sun set early i would rig up a couple gooseneck DeWalt flashlight to my ladder racks and split/stack in the dark. Air was so crisp. Not a lot of days like that here.
     
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    Back at it now that we have cool weather. The last three nights I have worked on wood for around 30 minutes each night when the kids go to bed. I hope to hit it hard this weekend during the day!
     

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    30 minutes here and 30 minutes there makes a lot of Kuuma chow pretty quick! :yes:
     
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    Slow and steady wins the race!
     
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    I had some big silver maple rounds that I needed to process and my 13 year old granddaughter was available to help on Sunday. So I put her in the skid steer feeding the rounds to the splitter. We only broke them down to pieces of a manageable size. E9E9112B-49B0-47AE-887D-24611AFEDC24.jpeg C5AD5A01-4EE1-4BFD-97D6-3BBAA412C86C.jpeg After she left I split and stacked a little over half of it. While taking a rest and admiring my efforts I realized I’ve been kinda jonesing to do some winter night time splitting by Coleman lantern light. So I finished up with the maple tonight. 2CB1FACC-012C-42AE-8B21-4A6DF809D916.jpeg 92C6CAEE-8D81-47C2-8842-8AB4CC7E9561.jpeg