Archive through December 18, 2010

[fcurrier]

Lucy's the 7275 with her back turned to us. Gotta paint that red thing! It IS nice wood - mostly butts of maple and birch. Find some birds eye maple now and then, but by then it's just 16" long.

Kraig: You can also second what Jerry SAID-- "You can never have too many 149's around".

 

[mpatterson]

Here is where I store my firewood each year. I leave the sides open from Spring to Fall and then I add my 8'x10' tarps to the North & West sides to keep the snow and late Fall rains off the wood. I have eye bolts just under the rafters to string rope through them and the side of the tarp. Its like a curtain effect. I then weave a rope through the bottom and wrap it around the 4"x4" posts. This keeps the bottom from flapping away in the wind. It works pretty good. No more digging firewood out of a snow bank or a pile of ice covered snow. That's for the birds! Did that for two years and that was two years too many!!

I will have to resize the pictures and post them!! Damn computers!

 

[mpatterson]

 

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[mpatterson]

This is my other shed. One half is to store junk in that I do not want in my garage. Odd ends of plywood and boards, outdoor ornaments and patio furniture for the winter. Things that are just a pain to have in a garage. The other half is meant for my kindling. I was lucky to get a tri-axle dump truck load of kindling three years ago. I have enough for the next 15 years I'd say!!

 

[mpatterson]

Nothing fancy for the doors. Just regular square bar door sliding track with the two trolly wheels per door. Then covered up the track with some rough hemlock just like the sides of the building to keep the ice and crap off it in the winter time and to make it look a little better and blend in. Frame work is made with just 2"x4" and 4"x4" drilled into the ground to make a "pole barn" style framework. Floor is done in rough hemlock as well nailed to some of those small preasure treated "mini ties" they sell for people who want to make flowerbeds or retaining walls. Think they are 5"x3" or something?? Whey work well for sitting right on the ground and have a flat side to nail floor boards to.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Mike, nice sheds! Thanks for posting those.

One of these days I need to build a proper wood shed, or at least a few more of my mini wood sheds.

 

[mpatterson]

Thanks Kraig.
I like them. Very rustic looking at the back of the property. They did not cost too much to build either since I used rough hemlock to strap them and put the sides on the smaller one. Used tin on both (think it was $80.00 or $90.00 for it all), and then the spruce 2"x6" for the rafters on the big one and some pressure treated 4"x4". Good thing is I can always close in the larger shed if I ever decided to need another shed to store something other than firewood.

 

[jbaker]

On Monday I hauled 6 pickup loads of 2 and 3 foot around trunks of cherry and hackberry that I bucked into 20 inch lengths and then split with a Case 90xt skid loader at a friends house.

Today I hauled it to my house and it totalled 4 loads in his dump truck.

I like wood heres a few photos, todays load is the wood that is not stacked yet...

 

[fcurrier]

Last block of this year's "about 5 cords" that stick scaled to 7 cords.
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Yes, that's snow on the ground from a squall late yesterdsy afternoon.
I was ready to be done at 5 cords, but just couldn't run out of wood. It reminded me of the bush hogging job that I did for 5 years - I knew pretty much how many acres I could average an hour. One field just wouldn't end. Come to find out when we GPS'd it it was 12 acres more than we were getting paid for!

I'm pretty impressed with this splitter with its 8.5 Kohler Command engine. Haven't found anything yet it won't split. It's a true Kohler, too - needs to be choked to start! It should have a momentary contact shut off switch, though, instead of a toggle switch. Switch is kind of hidden and easy to forget to turn it back to the "ON" position.

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