The day dawned clear and nice today, went outside, unhooked the dump truck from the transfer and headed off to the nut plant.
Picked up a load of fresh hazelnut shells and headed home.
Got home about 8:45 and started barreling the stuff up.
All tolled, I was able to store about 9000 pounds.
$175.00 for the load and I had to dump some out on the ground as I did not have enough space to store it all.
A few weeks ago I scrounged up 10 more 55 gallon drums and now they are full.
All considered, it cost about 2 cents a pound.
This figures down to about 50 cents a day to heat the house.
When it gets blistering A$$ cold it will then jump to about $1 a day to heat the entire house.
Got all done, the truck washed out and hooked back up to the trailer by 12:15
Showered and off to work (My gun shop) by 1:15
Great days work.
To rain tomorrow and then again later in the week.
There are times that scheduling this task can be tedious due to the weather.
I was down to just 2 55 gallon drums of shells left. Last season was a short one and we ended up starting this season with most everything used up pretty much.
The season this year is good and the plant will be running until late Feb/Mar so I will refill everything then to make sure we are all set for the Shoulders next fall.
Sits enjoying a cup of coffee and glad the work is done.
Snowy
Picked up a load of fresh hazelnut shells and headed home.
Got home about 8:45 and started barreling the stuff up.
All tolled, I was able to store about 9000 pounds.
$175.00 for the load and I had to dump some out on the ground as I did not have enough space to store it all.
A few weeks ago I scrounged up 10 more 55 gallon drums and now they are full.
All considered, it cost about 2 cents a pound.
This figures down to about 50 cents a day to heat the house.
When it gets blistering A$$ cold it will then jump to about $1 a day to heat the entire house.
Got all done, the truck washed out and hooked back up to the trailer by 12:15
Showered and off to work (My gun shop) by 1:15
Great days work.
To rain tomorrow and then again later in the week.
There are times that scheduling this task can be tedious due to the weather.
I was down to just 2 55 gallon drums of shells left. Last season was a short one and we ended up starting this season with most everything used up pretty much.
The season this year is good and the plant will be running until late Feb/Mar so I will refill everything then to make sure we are all set for the Shoulders next fall.
Sits enjoying a cup of coffee and glad the work is done.
Snowy