Nice cherry stack Molly! Hard to believe you picked today for splitting the wood since here in Jersey it was the amazon jungle with oppressive heat and humidity. Well it will never be said that you are asleep on the job. Anyway it was hot so I decided to drive around in my air conditioned vehicle and scout out some places while running some errands. Turns out I got a bit of a workout myself trekking a minor amount of wood from the riverside park to my car. That wood is in the trailer crate. Then I drove some more until woopie... some dead and very dry maple! Just what I need this time of year! Inside the trunk is part of a whole tree that was down on the side of a railroad track burm and leaning into the roadway parking spaces. I did the area a favor because the tree was blocking two parking spots which are now clear. There is most of the tree still there to cut up, but I had to be selective as it was so long dead that there were large punky sections. I may come back for more, but decided to leave because I was now soaking wet and I was getting that feeling of overstaying my welcome. Over in these parts there is no cover from the public and the constant police patrolling so its always best to hit and run and come back again at better times. No chainsaw - no problem, but once I take that sucker out I feel I'm open for questioning at the very least. For those of you wondering how brick oven adventures are going I'm including some pics below from a few days ago when I made mango glazed shrimp over coconut milk rice. Also paired it with a variety of sausages from different Hispanic regions. These Chorizo sausages are becoming my new favorite thing.
Man those shrimp look good! I do something similar, with garlic, lime juice, agave nectar, and gochujang. Glad your scouting paid off! That maple looks dry as a bone.
Not gonna lie, I had to look up Gochujang paste. Now I remember seeing this in my Asian market especially the plastic container variety. I will buy some next time..your recipe sounds right up my ally and I love trying new things especially chili pastes.
This is why I am a fan! I have been running Huskies for 43 years the few times my saws didn't start after a few pulls was because the fuel line had disintegrated (F-ing ethanol) or had a split in it, or the spark plug was bad and I like the feel and balance when cutting a personal preference.
Its been a long time since I've contributed to this thread. Its wood, so that counts, right? Especially if I took nearly every 5/4X6X12 board they had in stock? Apparently, 60 was too many. It almost got a little sporty on the way home. You would be surprised how much weight the sheet metal rear speaker mounts can handle when you run a strap over the front of the load and anchor it off them.
Only when I drag the battery out of the passenger side and jump the two wires that hang below the gate. Good thing I was lazy and didnt scrap the old battery that came out of my wifes car a month or two ago!
Wow that wood looks gorgeous! If you didn't mention that you took all their stock I would think you culled through the pile hand picked it. Funny, last weekend I was helping my brother in LI pick up a load of 2x12x 12 footers. He only has a 6 ft bed and with door down that made about 8 ft total. We tied the 8 pieces of extremely heavy saturated pressure treated wood together. He has the plastic liner in his truck bed and its slippery. We stopped at the first light and when green we took off very carefully and slow, but that didnt stop us from making a deposit of the whole load neatly placed on roadway. So we scrambled to place it back in, but this time with tail gate shut and boards at a strong angle sticking up out back. Man that wood was heavy!!!
My "bed" is only 4', so 6' with the tailgate down.....6' hanging off the back. I should have put them in with the gate up, it would have resulted in much less clenching on the ride home.
Let's see... license plate not visible. No high-viz flag off the end. Lucky you didn't get pulled over.
So many people have those hitch mounted racks. Add a cooler and some beach chairs and license plate is blocked. Same deal with bike racks. I guess you could get pulled over just for blocking your plate, but I don't think many cops would do that. Maybe an add on fine if they got you for speeding. Last month I drove from Pennsylvania to southern North Carolina. I must have passed and been passed by 500 cars with racks blocking their plate. I saw one car that made a photo copy of their plate and had it taped in the upper corner of the rear glass. Shout out to that Delawarean citizen!
That 2x12 is HEAVY stuff. I hauled 16 20' 2x12's (yes i did say 20 footers) from Southern Connecticut to near Worchester Mass. last Summer. Probably the most weight ive ever had on my ladder racks.
Yeah, that pressure treated substance must be a lead based product haha. Incidentally I'm just responding now because power was just restored after yesterdays hurricane. In all my years living here near Newark I never seen such intense wind this far away from the ocean. Then again it was spotty, everyone in the area experienced wind, but a few blocks here and there you can see there was something more sinister. This included my area of about half a square mile with trees uprooted and power lines down. Drive a few miles and not much to talk about, then drive a few more blocks and more destruction. Anyway glad to have my power back.
I hope the blow downs lead to some good scrounges at the dump for you! We had a little wind here, so just sticks came down.
Well I got to the dump and made 2 trips today.... first trip nothing but a tangle of small leaf loaded branches so I left and came back again later. This was a better payoff. Still a tangle of vines branches and leaves. I used my saw to cut most of this stuff up as I had to rip it away from the pile. What we have is a hardwood mix of Ash, Cherry, Bradly pear, Silver maple, and a mystery wood in the back crate. This crate wood is a bit of a puzzle. The bulldozer guy was nice enough to pull out the 8 ft log for me so with not much but bark to go by I didn't recognize it but was hoping for maple and cut it up. When my saw cut through it like butter I thought wow my sharpening skills are on point! Then lifting up the pieces to place in the crate I thought wow I must be in great shape as I can probably lift a bit more! Then marveling at myself on ride home I thought Sonofabish I bet that S#!T was Black Willow! Upon inspection getting home It's still a tough call, the end grain has a slightly more amber tone than maple with a 3" diameter chocolate brown heartwood, but that familiar smell of willow wasn't present so I ruled it out and started thinking walnut. Still that distinctive walnut smell was also not detected, only a sweet floral aroma...Yes I'm a bit of a connoisseur ..don't judge I found this picture online when I searched up walnut. This is from an ebay ad selling this piece, but looks exactly like my end grain so pretty sure its a match. I won't balk at walnut, better than willow, but will know for certain when splitting.
