Woohoo! Friend just called, my wood is almost ready!

[EatenByLimestone]

Friend, who does some firewood on the side, wanted to make some extra cash. I have a newborn this year and don't have time to scrounge, cut and split like I normally do. He's selling 4 cords that I'll pick up for $120 each. Next year has been taken care of!

Matt and doing the happy dance

 

[smokinj]

How does a newborn slow you down? lol sleep much?

 

[EatenByLimestone]

Just fine when she does. :lol: It's getting stuff done at the old speed that I miss.

Matt

 

[daveswoodhauler]

Good for you Matt.....its tough with a newborn around...especially the looks from the Mrs's when the baby is crying and you say "I gotta run out and split some wood"
$120 is a great score

 

[EatenByLimestone]

First two cords are stacked. They came in about 70% red oak. The other stuff in order of how much I saw was maple, hickory, white birch, a few pieces of poplar, and some rather dense wood that is a bright orange in color. I thought maybe it was cherry heartwood, but I don't think so. I should post pics of it.

Anyway, when I went to pick it up, it was nicely stacked with pallet walls at the end. Pretty neat setup, there is no way a client can say it's not a cord. He must have stacked it incredibly tight though. I think I stack pretty tight and those two cords restacked took up 3 1/2 stacks that are 10 feet long and 5 feet high. Avg. length of 16-18" with some long ones thrown in. (He knows the 30 will swallow a 24" split.) I have a small pile of stuff that was cut shorter than my 14" wide frames or had a big knot or something still left to stack. I have 2 more cords to pick up so I'll wait to get the shorts and odds off the ground. He said that the next 2 cords will be mostly maple.

I had one shock in the process though. The Uhaul I rented could not take as much weight as I wanted it to. I could only do a cord a trip... and it was probably overloaded at that. (hard to tell though, the trailer sat low to the ground to begin with, but there was a good deal of suspension travel left.) I didn't load up the bed of the truck. Going up and down some steep hills burned burned 18 gallons of gas.

Anyway, I've read of many dealers that sell short cords. I had to tell of a firewood dealer who doesn't short on a cord and sells it wickedly tight stacked.

Matt

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Good for you Matt. Now enjoy the family.

 

[mayhem]

I used to be very productive and worked at a pretty good pace. Then my daughter was born and it all changed. Now it takes me a week of prep time and meticulous planning to do a 1 hour oil change on my truck.

Wouldn't change it for anything.

 

[EatenByLimestone]

She started crawling this week. She gets better at it every day. :D

Matt

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Crawling already?! Soon she will be ready to help do some stacking on the woodpile.

 

[rdust]

She started crawling this week. She gets better at it every day. :D

Matt

Soon you'll be at the don't touch, don't do, don't, no, no! stage. :lol: My son is almost 15 months now and he's into everything! I work at a slower pace now but my wife is very understanding when I have work that needs to be done.

 

[fossil]

My daughter will be 26 this year, and I still find myself wanting occasionally to do the "No, don't...no!...no!" thing with her. But her husband is a good foot taller than I am, with a monster reach...so I just pretty much keep it all to myself. Never really had much effect, anyway. %-P Rick

 

[EatenByLimestone]

LOL! She's already helping out by cleaning the coffee table for us. I see plastic plates in my future if I want to eat sandwiches in front of the TV again. This weekend will be spent babyproofing as best we know how. Then I think she will teach us how to do it better.

Matt

 

[fossil]

...Then I think she will teach us how to do it better.

Count on it. She'll teach you things you can't yet even imagine you need to learn, Dad. Rick

 

[rdust]

Never really had much effect, anyway. %-P Rick

At this point I find this to be 100% accurate. :lol: