Firewood

[kharvey]

Jeff B looks like you should take them walnut logs to a sawmill and sell them. Thats too nice to burn for fire wood.

 

[jbaker]

Kendal we tossed that idea around and our tree guy said too many knots from branchs to make it worth while, so as cheech and chong would say "up in smoke it goes"

 

[jbaker]

I had the chance for me and my buddy to work another tree line, we got it all down and stacked in large log piles.

I am hoping this is the year that I get ahead of my winter supply so I have a year cut and stacked in advance.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Jeff, you're getting quite the stash of firewood.

I got a little more cut this morning.

I have a bit more to go before it's time to order another semi load.

 

[jbaker]

Kraig,
Your right, I have been getting alot of "free" wood oppertunities lately. And when that happens I grab all I can when its free.

You have a nice pile there Kraig

We have been trying to truck home the piles from the other weekend but our highway guy even after a week of record warmth still see's frost

in the ground so we have posted roads

In my local area a face cord sells for about $80 or $200 for a full cord. Theses are for single loads only. I have never inquired about a semi or multiple fullcords.

I am sure the day will come when I have to buy wood but hope to hold that off for a while.

My point of pics and wood stories are not to brag. I just really enjoy posting on this forum

 

[kmcconaughey]

Jeff, I think any of us that heat with wood enjoy seeing piles of fire wood. I know I do. Perhaps I'm just strange but there's something about piles of firewood that I enjoy seeing. Even if they don't belong to me. I certainly appreciate how much work goes into cutting and hauling the stuff so please keep posting photos. BTW, the last semi load (10 cord load) cost me $900 delivered.

 

[jchamberlin]

Jeff, Kraig -- I have never, ever, paid for firewood. I feel that would defeat the purpose of heating with wood. I have, in the past, even burned pine; but I will never, ever, burn it in the future. Luckily, for me, burning wood is an option. The wood burner functions as my "emergency" or "auxiliary" heat for the heat pump. My new heat pump is very efficient and economical, and it has electric coils for those times when a little more heat is needed. The wood burner just keeps those coils from coming on, and offers us "warmth" instead of just the heat-pump-maintained temperature. But like you guys, I just get a kick out of heating with wood. My mother took great pride in using just one match a season --never letting the fire die out. Every time I light the stove up I am reminded of her.

 

[jbaker]

Jeremiah I too only nomally use one match (propane torch) to lite my fire. I light it in early October and run it untill May.

Then I relight it when I use my pool heater as I built a heat exchanger to run off the boiler.

 

[digger]

It's not worth my time to go cut that stuff down.
It's to easy to watch it pile up.

And bringing it inside to the stove is easy too.

You haven't lived until you cut logs up that are horizontal and 4 ft. off the ground! LOL

 

[jchamberlin]

Charlie --At my age, and with my back, I really like the 4-ft off the ground part. Maybe I'm in the market for a loader for either my 149 or 782 but just don't know it yet.

 

[aschumacher]

Charlie, with all that wood working equipment you have in another bldg, maybe you could make some Totum poles !

The ones that you cant sell, go back as 'Decorative' firewood!

 

[jbaker]

just a picture of my pile from the roof

 

[kmcconaughey]

This evening I was stacking some firewood and I noticed a rather large spider on a piece I was carrying to the stack.

This is the largest spider I've ever seen in Wisconsin. I believe it's a Wolf Spider. Here's some photos.

My cat Selah came to investigate but was not impressed.

 

[mgwin]

Kraig,

Yes, that looks like a wolf spider. Guess what, they get a lot bigger than that! I've had a couple of real close encounters with them. One day I went out to the small utility building where I used to live to get my lawnmower. The building roof was about 5-1/2 feet high, and i'm 5-10. Something told me to look up, and when I did there was one of them dudes looking me in the eye about 5 inches away! Nearly having a heart attack, I eased out of the building, ran to the house and got the bug spray. I went back and emptied the can on that sucker. He acted like it was whipped cream on him. I said that's ok, I've got something for you. I went back into the house and brought out my 410 shotgun.

That got him! The only thing was there was a nice new hole in the roof! That's one encounter, I'll tell you the other one day.

 

[cwestfall]

with the past storms the only advantage to working for the county is the cleanup we have been hauling 10-12 loads a day to the shredder than i figured maybe i should get some

 

[jbaker]

heres one for Marty

Nice Chris,, it looks like maybe some walnut in there.

But sorry to here about the storm hope you did ok. Believe it or not but after heavy wind and storms I load up my chainsaw and take a ride around and collect whats there.

 

[cwestfall]

you would find plenty here to keep you busy, it is still a mess we rented extra chippers and skid steers to help out and have doubled the brush crews just to get caught up some roads where just opened up this week seems as most of this stuff was bigger there is a lot oak,and i should have been getting more but thats just from 1 day,and being 100 plus makes it a nasty day

 

[mgwin]

Kraig,

Since nobody is cutting wood during these sweltering days, I'll tell you the other wolf spider story.
While living in a mobile home, I decided to have the carpet replaced in the living room. The installers cut my phone line which ran down the wall through the floor. After finding the problem, I decided to crawl under the home and fix it.
The home was sitting on a gradual slope, ranging from about twenty inches off the ground from the lower end to about 10 inches on the upper end. It was fully underpinned. I had to slide on my back, pulling myself toward the upper end with the metal beams under the trailer and using a flashlight to see with. As I came closer to the cord, the beams were just high enough for me to pass under. Just before I got to the cord I pulled myself up to the next beam, reached for my flashlight and started to look for the wire. I noticed something shining on the beam about 4 inches from my face. I turned the flashlight to see what it was and saw two great big green eyes looking right at me with a monster of a wolf spider attached to them.

I would swear that thing weighed at least a pound! If I hadn't been in my twenties at the time, I probably would not be here today. I cannot tell you how I got out from under that trailer, but I can say the phone didn't work for a long time!

I did discover the benefits of Hot Shot foggers.
No wonder I hate spiders.

 

[jchamberlin]

Marty --Great story!

Reminds me of the time that I discovered that in the South snakes like to cool off under the house.

 

[cwestfall]

1 last load of cherry