Load Two from the Glory Pile

[Oregon Bigfoot]

I took today off to have a four day weekend. Today, I went over to my friend's house and got a second load from his logged off property. I worked on part of a large Douglas Fir and finished the load off with some more maple. This load is 75% Douglas Fir and 25% Maple. I had a friend help today, thanks Hank! After dropping the load off at my sister's, I split and stacked about half of it, and my back said "STOP". Ibuprofen and iced tea are my friends tonight. There is still oodles of wood. Enjoy the pictures!

 

[weatherguy]

Nice looking wood you have, too bad you dont have a trailer or know someone that does, you could make less trips.

 

[Woody Stover]

Nice haul! Wood-handled maul...that's old-school right there.

 

[Gark]

Thanks for the pictures. That must have been like a kid in a candy store with a sign saying "All-You-Can-Eat". Great score!

 

[Oregon Bigfoot]

Nice looking wood you have, too bad you dont have a trailer or know someone that does, you could make less trips.

Yeah, that would be nice to have a trailer for sure. I'm not getting any younger, and about 1/2 cord load is good for me on a casual day, and I'm just about out of storage places, and still have wood to gather I cut a month or so ago, and a lot of splitting/stacking still to do. It's ash and apple wood out in a muddy area at my sister's house.

Nice haul! Wood-handled maul...that's old-school right there.

I don't like the fiberglass handles, and like the wood handles much better. Those "old school" hickory handles have less give, and a more solid "hit". The fiberglass handles seem to have a rubbery and weird vibration feel to them that I don't like. The one and only fiberglass handled maul I owned broke in short order, years ago. How many baseball bats do you see made with fiberglass?

Thanks for the pictures. That must have been like a kid in a candy store with a sign saying "All-You-Can-Eat". Great score!

Yeah, I spent too much time saying, "which pile should I cut on?" There are three huge piles, and all easy pickin's. I'm about out of room now at the moment, until I can split and stack all that I have gathered this spring, or find another place to store wood.

 

[bogydave]

" I'm about out of room now at the moment, until I can split and stack all that I have gathered this spring, or find another place to store wood."

So?
Lets get to splitting & stacking & storing. LOL
"Come on man" Your at the "Glory Pile"

If the wood isn't going anywhere, take a break. Let the soreness level off.
"Easy pickin's" is still hard work.
Ibuprofen the night before, that morning & that evening helps. But isn't a cure all.

Nice looking wood.
Good job!

 

[Oregon Bigfoot]

I know, I'm such a whiner! I'm still stiff this morning.

I'll have to build one of those Alaska size wood shed's!

 

[Thistle]

If the wood isn't going anywhere, take a break. Let the soreness level off.
"Easy pickin's" is still hard work.
Ibuprofen the night before, that morning & that evening helps. But isn't a cure all.

You got it.Best to rest for a while if possible & not push yourself too hard.No fun having serious pain that takes longer to heal.I'm paying now for the dumb things I did 20-25 yrs ago.Nothing to prove now,the body tells me to stop,I listen.

 

[Oregon Bigfoot]

" I'm about out of room now at the moment, until I can split and stack all that I have gathered this spring, or find another place to store wood."

So?
Lets get to splitting & stacking & storing. LOL
"Come on man" Your at the "Glory Pile"

If the wood isn't going anywhere, take a break. Let the soreness level off.
"Easy pickin's" is still hard work.
Ibuprofen the night before, that morning & that evening helps. But isn't a cure all.

Nice looking wood.
Good job!

I'm just about done splitting and stacking all my wood, maybe 1/4 cord left. I messed up the back of my right hand and wrist somehow splitting this past week, it smarts today !!, so I have been using Ibruprofen again. Wood cutting is NOT for the faint at heart for us grandfathers. My hand hurt picking up an EMPTY bag this morning, so something's up.

I haven't been able to get to the ash and apple wood I cut in April, due to the Oregon rain faucet in the sky, that makes the pasture too muddy to drive onto. It'll be July I think before I can get that load out.

Tomorrow, if the rain faucet lets up a little, I'll get my third load from the Glory Pile. I heard from my friend, that his friends have found the Glory Pile too, and about 15 truck loads of firewood have left his premises since I cut last . I better get in there before it's gone. He says he has reserved "my pile" for me, and the other piles are where he had the other friends cut on.

 

[ScotO]

Lookin good, OB. Keep at it, before long yer gonna have stacks a mile long, just like bogyDave's!