Fairly Busy Day

[William Young]

Went to the Loggers sorting yard this morning and cut a load of firewood from their burn pile with my chainsaw. One and a half hours to cut and load the truck. It's only about 10 miles away.



Brought it home and split it with my electric log splitter. That took another hour

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Had lunch and then got a truckload of bark to take to town to put on a hillside at my sister-in-laws place in town .



I put in the 48 feet of pressure treated 2 x 10's yesterday at the bottom of the hill . The load of bark covered half of the hillside so I will get another load tomorrow and finish it off .
I will also cut another load of firewood and bring it home and split it tomorrow just like today.
Another six or eight loads and I will be all set for the winter after next. I have piled the split wood shown above already and sharpened my chainsaw for tomorrow and done some gardening before turning on the computer.
I like to keep at least two years ahead on split wood so it is always nice and dry for my airtight wood heater.
W.Y.

[JohnB]

G'day Bill,
You certainly keep yourself busy mate.
Hungry boards on the sides of the ute are a great idea, I made some for my trailer when I used to burn wood.

[Mike Crosa]

God bless Bill. You are one busy fella. Of course the vistas you get to enjoy while you work must make it a mite easier.

[Fremmed]

Good work Bill...I gotta tell you--I got tired just looking at the pictures.

[Dick Miraglia]

William: After seeing how you and Evie spend your day having fun, I would like to invite both of you to come "play" in my yard for the day...actually a week or two would be better! I also had to sit down and have a glass of lemonade after seeing all the work you had done. Great job and God Bless You. Dick

[Pajaro]

Thank God for natural Gas

[bearfretworks]

Good for you Bill!!!!!!! I hope I'm going HALF as fast as you when I get to be a "wise elder"!!!

Just got home with about 2 cords of firewood myself. Not split yet......that'll wait for cooler temps. I have 5 more ash trees (24-32" at base) and 2 huge box elder tree's to get hauled from the last windstorm. Heat for the next couple years AND a little turning wood

[William Young]

Got another load this morning. It was actually piled higher on the truck than yesterdays load. Got home at 11.00 AM and had it all split by noon.
This picture shows yesterdays load all piled and todays load ready to pile .
Will go back to sister-in laws place in town with another load of bark and finish off that little job on the hillside and then pile this second load.

Barry.
You are so lucky to have ash and box elder. We don't have much at all in the way of hardwoods around here. I live in the midst of evergreen forests . The wood shown above is a mixture of lodgepole pine and fir and larch (tamarack)
It is not as good as hardwoods for heating but it is what everyone around here uses because we don't have much other choice.
W.Y.

[minowevie]

Bill that is a hall for sure. thank gosh for the splitter huh. but then that is still alot of work, I wish they made a log stacker for us little guys. thats the part I hate. you remind me of my hubby alot. He is 72 and works me under the ground. keeps us young. huh, Bill Young. HOHO. i made a funny. well I guess I am not a comeadion. Dale. figure that word out. sorry, I am just full of myself today. your friend Evie

[Toolman56]

Hi, yes i know what you mean by busy day, my brother got a old barn he converted into a machine shop, so he heats with wood of course and now his house, too, so i travel up thata way when he needs help, he got ten acreas behind the barn ok, hes a got a contrac with all the towns around 30 miles raduis to dump there storm trees up there or all the farmers got a contract with him to clear out there groves , there when need's to be done, so he needs help sawing en stacking, spilting ,ect, so i go up , for me i love to split wood with ax , beats these yuppee gyums all to heck, i can split wood like 4 to one on his homemade splitter, soft wood of course,i cheat, he was doing oak, had lots pines go down this spring, blew down, i was just up there two years ago ,from edge of outer barn wall to fence row is 878 feet , now we have wood stacked in 4x4 squares , with date last stacked stapled on each stacked , that way he knows what to burn first, he got this all the way back to fence row,and 65 feet wide full, this amount last him all winter , and by 4 feet high, so we plenty busy like chipmunks, so i know the feeling.