Three Year Plan for the Cottage

Hey guys! Sorry I haven't been on for a while. It's been a really hectic summer around here. Anyway here's one of the many projects.

This was two weekends ago. We had some really ugly box elder trees at the cottage that needed to go. So the family got together and turned it into the Three Year Plan for the cottage: around 2.5 full cords C/S/S.

My mom took all of these pics.

 

Before and After:

 

no milk crate?

 

Nice job Shawn those were good sized trees
I see your makin good use outa that new splitter and a lot of help to get the processed :stacke:

 

Nice job Shawn Curry, it's nice to hear and see from you. I'm just getting back to the site myself after being away most of September being busy with the harvest, canning and freezing. That's one nice looking splitter you have there, as you may remember, I have the same one (and Ashwatcher also).

 

I just noticed that last picture

 

Please be careful with the multiple hands around that splitter. My kids like to run mine too, but it's a one-person job. Far too easy to lose a digit or get your hand crushed by a lack of attention or a distraction.

 

nice work, and nice cabin! good to see the whole family pitching in!

I have a bunch of boxelder at the in laws farm, some bucked and drying some still standing that needs to get down this fall so we can till the area (they till everything possible in Iowa)

I have a hard time splitting large box elder rounds when dry, it so soft the Fiskers just kind of sinks in with no split. I noticed your splitting green, do you find it easier to split box elder green?

 

This stuff was so knotty and twisty I don't think wet/dry would have made much of a difference. I'm glad we had the hydraulics for sure. I think most box elder is gnarly like that at least around here.

 

Thanks! It seems like a real nice unit so far. The other cool thing is it's the exact same engine as my Honda push mower.

Yeah harvesting the garden kept us pretty busy too. This was our first year having one. We canned around 30 quarts of tomatoes and we've been making a bunch of hot pepper jelly too - it's our new addiction.



What else, added to the hoard: three new 2 cord homemade firewood pallets, filled 2, plus around 2500 bdft lumber.

 

Good work Shawn. Three year plan at the cottage is impressive.

 

That looks like our kitchen has over the last few weeks. It's a good feeling to do some vegetable hoarding to go along with wood hoarding isn't it.

 

Yup, a very busy kitchen!

 

How about some history of the log cabin/smoke house. Baring that at least some more pictures.