That looks great Mike! Glad you're caught up despite the wrist injury! I am starting to suffer the gridlock issue here for sure. In my case I can't process fast enough to stay ahead of the logs. I burn 12-15 cord per year and sell as well. I'm looking for room for about 60 cord of logs. Good problem to have with the way prices are going.
Like Mike, I'm finding spots now just to move a cord or two....partly to make room for more stock, but also to have wood at the house for winter. I have 1 more cord to move up and stuff somewhere.
I picked up a couple of landscape timbers. They were $1 cheaper than 2x4's. I had cinder blocks and some available uprights. I usually use 2x4's for uprights, but I already had them. The uprights are sitting off the ground on small rocks. Extra space in the cinder block, is filled with bricks and rocks. After several leveling tries, I got it to within a half-bubble. Good enough for me. Time for wood. While futzing with wood, I was burning off some old personal papers. I'd have burned them off before now, but I didn't due to the dryness of the drought. It showered just before dawn, so today was it. I'm done for the day I think the landscape timbers will work for the other 2 new racks.
It was a nice fall morning today. Temp was 49⁰ dewpt 39⁰. Wide open schedule. Giddyup! I started by splitting and stacking a couple loads of oak to my new rack, topping it off. I then moved splits around in the area where the other 2 racks will go. I needed to get the racks as tight as I could to the rock wall. Sure enough, as I scratch around I found the tip of a granite iceberg. After about an hour of working it loose, and a little here, a little there, I was able to move it up to the top of the wall. Redneck cribbing It's up - it's good! Filled in the hole, which still left it lower than before I started. That rock took me the better part of an hour to move. It felt good when it was outta the way. After some raking and scratching around, I placed some blocks in place, just to eyeball things. The board is 8ft out, and lower as the land slopes down and away from the rock wall. There's still >4ft to get my wood cart and snowblower through there, as needed. I still have more leveling, scratching, and raking the dirt. I now need 4 landscape timbers, 3 cinder blocks, and 8 4ft 2x4's for uprights. I need to get both racks in place to make sure I don't run into any rocks or roots. If I do, I should have enough wiggle room to move the rack locations around to avoid them. Overall, I was satisfied with the effort. I was at it for just over 3hrs and my stamina was fine. Getting it back a bit at a time. Just need to stay with it. Oh, seeing as how some are keeping track of such things, I mis-counted the number of racks I have. Once I get these 2 complete, there'll be 40 racks. There are 6 I inherited a few years back longer than 8ft. The rest are 8ft racks.
Funny! 40 is an impressive number for sure. I am! Also good to see bits of space recovered and put to a more useful purpose. I'm finding out what thats like too. Many warm fires to both of you! Sca
I'm done with this chapter of woodyard management. New racks assembled and leveled close enough for me. Red oak going on the right, squirrly black birch splits on left. Care was taken to get this end of the rack uprights, up as straight as I could. This style of rack has a tendency to flare out the uprights. I didn't want that in a traffic area. The holes in the cinder blocks need to be filled to minimize leaning uprights. The other end can lean. No foot traffic there and increases rack volume a bit. The whole rack becomes more stable with more weight. My temporary storage area is now ready for more wood that needs to be cut and split at my SIL's. What's left above are pieces needing to be further processed. IE: split/noodled, or shortened.
Looks great Mike. Nice to have the staging area open again. If you have a scrap 2x4's cut a short piece and attach the two verticals at the top. Helps stabilize.
The uprights stay pretty much parallel. With the weight of wood against them, they don't move. It's the lean out into foot traffic that I knew would, if not addressed. It's been addressed.
One of my favorite songs…They don’t write songs like that much anymore. I always chuckle at the lyrics “Momma said, come sit beside me my only son…” Ronnie van Zant had two other famous brothers, Donnie and Johnny. Maybe even a half brother or two…I’m sure its more artistic license than absolute accuracy.
Mike, its awesome to see the voids being filled, and staging areas cleared. Especially after taking part of the year off from wooding. You have good friends! I take it you'll get those last racks (making for 42 now?) filled before snow flies? What will you do if you have more than the racks can hold? (As issue i will be wrangling with soon). Best, Sca
I hope to get them filled before the snow flies. If I have extra, I'll just dump them in one of aisles, not far from racks I know I'll be emptying this heating season. I'm not needing quick seasoning for those splits. Sitting on the ground for a bit won't hurt them.
