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which_chick) wrote2025-03-30 02:53 pm
which_chick) wrote2025-03-30 02:53 pm
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A weekend in which Things Got Done
I had a productive weekend of doing things. Lots of things got done.
I took the plow off the plow truck. I fired up the diesel pickup and drove it into town and filled it up and checked its tire pressures. I still need to hook it to the horse trailer for the April 4th Coggins clinic.
I swept out the chicken coop and moved hay for the boys. As it was over 70F both days and my horse still has an inch of hair on his body, he got the weekend off and I did my wood project instead of riding.
I fixed the wood splitter, which I posted about already, and then I used the wood splitter.
Last fall, I had Waylie cut up the huge red oak tree that came down in a storm. It was seriously huge. I used the splitter (Here's a short video) to split the rounds into pieces I could lift. Once I had pieces I could lift, I hauled them to my house and stacked them neatly in my yard:
There are two and a half rows of pile. The pieces are... liftable but not lightweight. Anyway, dealing with that was the project for the weekend. I neatened up the existing woodpile before I started (raked out the bits and the leaves and rearranged the supports and generally made ready). This is a picture of how much woodpile there was before I stacked any new wood, also note splitter in horizontal orientation:
Here's where the pile of logs used to be after I split and stacked it all and raked and cleaned up all the bits and leaves where it had been stacked.
And here's the done-for-now woodpile, with the gloves marking where I started adding the freshly split wood:
The splitter ran very nicely and I put four tanks of fuel through it, so it wasn't like a small amount of running.
I took the plow off the plow truck. I fired up the diesel pickup and drove it into town and filled it up and checked its tire pressures. I still need to hook it to the horse trailer for the April 4th Coggins clinic.
I swept out the chicken coop and moved hay for the boys. As it was over 70F both days and my horse still has an inch of hair on his body, he got the weekend off and I did my wood project instead of riding.
I fixed the wood splitter, which I posted about already, and then I used the wood splitter.
Last fall, I had Waylie cut up the huge red oak tree that came down in a storm. It was seriously huge. I used the splitter (Here's a short video) to split the rounds into pieces I could lift. Once I had pieces I could lift, I hauled them to my house and stacked them neatly in my yard:
There are two and a half rows of pile. The pieces are... liftable but not lightweight. Anyway, dealing with that was the project for the weekend. I neatened up the existing woodpile before I started (raked out the bits and the leaves and rearranged the supports and generally made ready). This is a picture of how much woodpile there was before I stacked any new wood, also note splitter in horizontal orientation:
Here's where the pile of logs used to be after I split and stacked it all and raked and cleaned up all the bits and leaves where it had been stacked.
And here's the done-for-now woodpile, with the gloves marking where I started adding the freshly split wood:
The splitter ran very nicely and I put four tanks of fuel through it, so it wasn't like a small amount of running.
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At full capacity, I have four racks of wood. Each winter I burn about two, each summer/fall I add two. One year I work the "near side" pile and the following year I work the "off side" pile so that the wood I am burning in any given winter has been split and stacked for a full year before I burn it. The wood depicted here will be burned for the winter of 2026-2027.
We do not generally fell live trees and I have enough dead trees to choose from that things like "easily accessible by vehicle" and "not downhill from the truck" and "a better class of firewood" are considerations. Preferred species: black locust, red oak. Disfavored species: tupelo/silver maple/willow (horrific to split, like they just shred and crumple, shit heat value, just misery all around), pines, and spruces. Everything else is "meh", like it's OK but not great.
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