Another boot-full of white oak. Don’t ask the measures and standards people, but I think I now have enough white oak to shake a fist at. Actually, I know I do, because my wife has several times, or she might have been shaking that fist at me. I fixed the log-o-laanch this week and completed the privacy wood stack along the rear property line. I guess it is time to double up. I’ll use a bundle of cherry sticks to stabilize between the stacks for stability.
Some decent wood. Youve been on a white oak kick lately which is great. As scroungers we never know what our next score is going to be! Part of the fun i guess you could say. Cant believe you loaded a couple of those big rounds as is mrfancyplants! Hope you werent in your good work clothes?
Always in my work clothes... Today I had the splitter to chunk them up a little, and a windbreaker to keep the grime off. Sometimes i’ll take off the button down and pack a spare undershirt to shed some of the sweat in the morning.
I've got a chance at this, it fell at my friend's last night. A little over her property line, but she thinks her neighbor won't mind if I cut it.
loading these up( the ones standing plus a few still laying down) in my friends car for Stoveaclause to split tomorrow. Stovesman share. All oak. 30-34” Long 18-20” across.
Well as I promised Molly, here was the costume plus some showing the build. I made it using a cheap mannequin torso I got at Good Will. it was actually 2 hangers with the hollow half torso mold so I bonded the two front chests together and cut off the crotch, hips and lower abdomen under ribs. Thats where the head fits. The first picture is a test with the student actor not made up. I told them to just pale his face a bit to mach the color of the figure. I did not expect them to go full out Joker and was disappointing, but I guess the joker is hot now and so is clowns. Remember when we were young and clowns made you laugh? Well now they are ALL creepy. It's not easy being a clown today haha! Anyway, I wasn't there at the event to put the final make-up on and had to leave it to the lay people so it is what it is
A lot of her oaks are the same I suspect. Lots of leaners and sickly looking trees. Her backyard is shared with two other neighbors, who don't want to spend the money to clean it up, but tend to freak if they hear a chainsaw back there.
A good time was had by all, I'm sure! Tough gig being an art teacher around Halloween. At least you are off the hook at Christmastime, no Santa mannequins?
180 on the top, 250 on the trunk, and hand truck to get it out! It will be up a slope, but I can take my time, since it's my friend's place. I got the go-ahead, the neighbor on whose property the trunk rests has given permission. The top is on the third neighbor's property, so I may get screamed at yet. I may cut today, or maybe sometime next week.
So work the trunk and leave the top! Looks a lot like the white oak behind my house. It was rotted about 8' up and snapped in the wind. Most of the trunk is solid though. Not sure how much more I can pick off it safely with an 18" bar. It's still connected where it snapped and is leaning down to the ground. Theres gotta be another cord in the trunk if I can get it!
A few pics, my friend took more but she hasn't sent them to me yet. My husband and I both cut, he probably cut more than me. The wood was green and solid above the break. We ran into a quirk with the MS250, it floods if you turn it sideways to cut. The 180 doesn't do that. First load, the little stuff. I'll go back for more this afternoon, uphill with the hand truck!
