The Big move

[fespo]

After 12 hours, 200 miles of driving, $100.00 in fuel, I brought home 5 dump loads of split wood. A good friend of mine has a tree service and brings me wood here and there for free. A lot of it is cut to 18" or so even though I cut mine at 21". He drops it at my dads place that is about 3-4 miles from his place. Today he let me use his small dump truck to move the wood. My dad has a Ford 340 with a loader bucket. So we would fill the bucket then dump it in the truck. I left my house at 6:30 am to drive to his place, got the truck and started to work. I would say the is a good cord of wood in each load. I have one more load split, but I was just to damn tried to load it tonight. Plus I have to stack it all yet. I will call my chips in with a bud that I help out a lot the last few weeks. Im set for the next 2-3 years in my book. Frank



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[iskiatomic]

No pics?

KC

 

[ScotO]

Looking good, Fespo! Looks like a lot of ash in those pics, definitely worth the work, IMO.

 

[fespo]

Iskiatomic ckick the link for pictures,

 

[Woody Stover]

Good job!
I mostly cut to 16". I don't know the dimensions of the Liberty but when I load that shorter stuff in MIL's Buck 91 I can put a couple splits in the back E-W and still load the front N-S.
In the last pic the stuff on the left looks like it's been split for a while?

 

[fespo]

Good job!
I mostly cut to 16". I don't know the dimensions of the Liberty but when I load that shorter stuff in MIL's Buck 91 I can put a couple splits in the back E-W and still load the front N-S.
In the last pic the stuff on the left looks like it's been split for a while?

 

[fespo]

most of the wood was cut last fall early spring and split through the spring summer. The wood is about 95%ash some oak, mulberry and elm. When I go back to dads place, I will take some pictures of the monster oak that he brought over. I bet it's 3' diameter.

 

[Applesister]

Good weekend project. Does your Dad burn too?

 

[bogydave]

Great feeling to be a few years ahead , eh?
Gonna make a real nice stack of fire wood!

 

[Woody Stover]

The wood is about 95%ash some oak, mulberry and elm. When I go back to dads place, I will take some pictures of the monster oak that he brought over. I bet it's 3' diameter.

I saw a couple of stringy splits in the first pic and wondered if maybe it was some Elm. Wow, that sounds like a good-sized Oak!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

That is a sweet haul indeed.

 

[fespo]

Good weekend project. Does your Dad burn too?

Just a little now since my mom has passed

 

[fespo]

Ok, I add the pictures of the oak logs and the last pile to go.


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[Applesister]

Photobucket made me watch video advertisement of American Express clip!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Photobucket made me watch video advertisement of American Express clip!

That's because they know you are a big spender and you should have one of their cards.