Work Done In 2026

[Whitenuckler]

Local place has a "PLEASE COME TAKE SOME PALLETS" pile 😁. Huge area, neatly stacked, lots of sizes. These are like 32"x80" with 1" or 1 1/8" boards. Just picked up 4 more this morning. There was a truck with a huge tri-axle trailer loading up when I pulled in. Absolutely awesome for stacking wood on.

Most pallets I see are beat up or rough wood. Those look like they have only been used once or never. I did pick some up once, and used them for lumber. I stopped doing that as they don't easily fit in my Jeep, and too hard to take apart. You're on to a good thing there.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Looks like you guys have been On it so far. I'm running slow this year, I started the new year off with a heart attack. Just getting moving again although SERIOUSLY out of shape for this stuff 😁.

Been pushing this week before the woods lights up with my neighborhood hornets. This morning bucked and hauled a red oak dropped in a storm last spring. Pretty well done minus some clean up

Ignore the baby saw in the pic 😂 not what I was using.

This was Monday Tuesday clean up. The pic doesn't do the hell justice. About a dozen 15 ft trees like the one in front all wrapped up with kudzu and black berry brambles. I bled all day both days lol

Now I can keep it clean so I can get to the pile to cut. Big chunks to toss onto a burn pile and there are some pretty big oak and beech in there to save.

I look forward to pushing myself back into shape since this work up here doesn't do itself

 

[GG Woody]

Another load of blow down Fir. I am already fully re-stocked while burning all winter, lame snow year, getting wood instead of playing in the snow. I'll have to invent some more wood storage. I don't really want to be selling wood but it's starting to get out of control!

 

[stoveliker]

Looks like you guys have been On it so far. I'm running slow this year, I started the new year off with a heart attack. Just getting moving again although SERIOUSLY out of shape for this stuff 😁.

Been pushing this week before the woods lights up with my neighborhood hornets. This morning bucked and hauled a red oak dropped in a storm last spring. Pretty well done minus some clean up



I look forward to pushing myself back into shape since this work up here doesn't do itself

Glad to hear you survived and are up and about - especially doing wood work.
Be careful, but enjoy (wood) life!

 

[NickW]

Finished up the log pile of cherry, black ash and red maple today. Ended up just under a cord. Have a bit of white ash and oak to take care of, then back to the woods unless the finisher gets the interior doors done.


Not sure if anyone else has tried this.... Thought's? Is it brilliant or idiotic? 2" drain PVC cut 4" long and sliced with a sawzall.


Heading for SE WI tonight so the wife can go in to the office for a couple of days and we can do some visiting over the weekend. My back, knees and hips are thankful.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Glad to hear you survived and are up and about - especially doing wood work.
Be careful, but enjoy (wood) life!

Doc said it should have killed me, but didn't. OK I'm good with that. He told me it had opened just enough so there was no damage. "Go and do what you do" OK, time to remake this 64 yo guy. The funniest part is a drug I'm on now for BP. I've NEVER had a BP issue, always low end of "normal". I bend over and pick something up and about pass out lol. Another side affect is shortness of breath, OK am I about to pop another gasket or is it the drug. Week after next I have an appointment and this drug needs to change.

 

[stoveliker]

Finished up the log pile of cherry, black ash and red maple today. Ended up just under a cord. Have a bit of white ash and oak to take care of, then back to the woods unless the finisher gets the interior doors done.
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Not sure if anyone else has tried this.... Thought's? Is it brilliant or idiotic? 2" drain PVC cut 4" long and sliced with a sawzall.
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Heading for SE WI tonight so the wife can go in to the office for a couple of days and we can do some visiting over the weekend. My back, knees and hips are thankful.

I like the drain pipe - and would put it on the corners too, so you don't cut open your head!

 

[stoveliker]

Doc said it should have killed me, but didn't. OK I'm good with that. He told me it had opened just enough so there was no damage. "Go and do what you do" OK, time to remake this 64 yo guy. The funniest part is a drug I'm on now for BP. I've NEVER had a BP issue, always low end of "normal". I bend over and pick something up and about pass out lol. Another side affect is shortness of breath, OK am I about to pop another gasket or is it the drug. Week after next I have an appointment and this drug needs to change.

Yes, the passing out and shortness of breath can be due to BP lowering meds (is what I've seen around me)

Glad to still have you, and the pics , around!

 

[Whitenuckler]

I like the drain pipe - and would put it on the corners too, so you don't cut open your head!

Just need some longer cuts of pipe, and would cover the corners too. I like this design. I could use that top for a generator box.

 

[NickW]

Just need some longer cuts of pipe, and would cover the corners too. I like this design. I could use that top for a generator box.

This was a test run. I thought about making them longer but figured getting a straight slit might be tougher.

 

[Pinesmoke]

This was a test run. I thought about making them longer but figured getting a straight slit might be tougher.

Table saw?

 

[NickW]

Table saw?

Wanted as thin of a kerf as possible. Fine tooth sawzall blade worked good. It wasn't my original plan, but that didn't work the way I had hoped. Now that I know the sawzall is the way to go I could make them longer and get a longer fine tooth blade.

 

[Jsjac1]

Finished up the log pile of cherry, black ash and red maple today. Ended up just under a cord. Have a bit of white ash and oak to take care of, then back to the woods unless the finisher gets the interior doors done.
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Not sure if anyone else has tried this.... Thought's? Is it brilliant or idiotic? 2" drain PVC cut 4" long and sliced with a sawzall.
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Heading for SE WI tonight so the wife can go in to the office for a couple of days and we can do some visiting over the weekend. My back, knees and hips are thankful.

I like your metal roofing cover. I used some scraps to cover a pile of white pine I did in the fall.
Do you buy the metal roofing or get it free some where.
We have a couple 20 foot sheets left from the shed we built. We bought a bunch of metal from a local lumber yard that was ordered and never picked up by the customer.

I like the way you have the roofing tied down.
One of my concerns is how sharp the edges can be.

 

[NickW]

I like your metal roofing cover. I used some scraps to cover a pile of white pine I did in the fall.
Do you buy the metal roofing or get it free some where.
We have a couple 20 foot sheets left from the shed we built. We bought a bunch of metal from a local lumber yard that was ordered and never picked up by the customer.

I like the way you have the roofing tied down.
One of my concerns is how sharp the edges can be.

I have 10 10-12' sheets that were cover sheets from the pole shed build. I'm going to ask the builder if I can get more. My test staçk is the red pine I split a couple of weeks ago that's very out of the way. The cherry and red maple stack will stay uncovered until fall probably. I like the suggestions to do something to the corners and make the pipe sections longer.

 

[stoveliker]

@NickW
How are you lifting up the overlapping sections where two panels meet? Otherwise water could stream in between the panels and leak onto the wood?

 

[NickW]

@NickW
How are you lifting up the overlapping sections where two panels meet? Otherwise water could stream in between the panels and leak onto the wood?

Haven't had it yet, but just figuring on having it sloped one way or the other. My splits are only 12"+/- to fit n/s in the Stratford 2, so to stabilize the stacks I have a capping row to tie the 2 stacks together that can be rearranged for more pitch and helps with the crown on the metal.

 

[clancey]

pine--senior life is just not fun--you realize everything that you can no longer do--ugh Sending good thought and wishes for your next exam hoping that things get figured out. in the meanwhile make sure you drink a lot of water and stay out of harsh weather and do not shovel snow and just for the h... of it try warm water and lemon in the morning--been there done that---old clancey...

 

[clancey]

This is a hard posting to reply to but I thought that I would ask anyway and if I get no replies I want you to know that this is perfectly fine. This is work to be done. This particular website I believe is well organized and easy to use although I had some heated postings over the years it is amazing that I am still able to post. I think that I am on my third strike and you all know what that means. My dream at my very old age is to have a animal sanctuary and I am looking for someone who could design a website for me with this purpose in mind--it would advertise the sanctuary so I am asking is this possible? Me knowing nothing here but I thought that I would ask for the hell of it with my work to be done before I kick the bucket.. Just asking and no big deal if no one answers this post...
Thanks---clancey

 

[clancey]

By the way I forget to post this on the last posting...I got my wood stove fired up and it is burning nicely with 3 logs of that environmental wood and I will take a picture when I can figure out my little flip phone and send you all a picture. I have some veg. soup on the cook part but its not too hot "yet" but its getting warmer. I have my french doors open and the heat is warming up the kitchen a bit and the smoke is going out the stack nicely...It snowed today and we will get about 3 inches or less of snow but its pretty but cold outside..So I am resting by the fire--ha ...clancey

 

[Stelcom66]

I think it's so cool cooking soup on the stove! Last time I did, it was also vegetable soup. Same with stew and chili. Sometimes I'll get the pot to a high heat or boiling on the electric stove, then bring it to the wood stove to simmer the rest of the time. I've made toast on the stove too.

Still stove weather here, temperatures in the 30s and kind of damp.

 

[all night moe]

I like the suggestions to do something to the corners and make the pipe sections longer

You could just use pieces where you are running your straps, and long enough to cover the corners on the ends.

 

[all night moe]

No work done here worth mentioning. Just stopping by and checking in.

Waiting for the snow pack to dissolve and the birth of this year's mud season before I do much of any substantial work.
After the past couple days of the wet snow, drizzle/showers, and wet feet......I'll wait.

 

[Pinesmoke]

pine--senior life is just not fun--you realize everything that you can no longer do--ugh Sending good thought and wishes for your next exam hoping that things get figured out. in the meanwhile make sure you drink a lot of water and stay out of harsh weather and do not shovel snow and just for the h... of it try warm water and lemon in the morning--been there done that---old clancey...

Clancey I hear ya. I'm gonna make a hard run at it. I retire in a year and want to hit it in good shape ready to kick ass. The wife and I are planning a long bike trip before we can't anymore. 3-4 months on the scoots will be a beating on us but more than doable with some work.

Time to start is now.

 

[stoveliker]

@NickW
Regarding the corners, I forgot when/where, but have used old garden hose, on such corners. take a foot, slice it open, put it on the metal around the corner.
I don't know how that holds up if you have snow sliding down though (I had not), given that garden hose can open up on you (and pvc pipe less so).

 

[NickW]

@NickW
Regarding the corners, I forgot when/where, but have used old garden hose, on such corners. take a foot, slice it open, put it on the metal around the corner.
I don't know how that holds up if you have snow sliding down though (I had not), given that garden hose can open up on you (and pvc pipe less so).

Yeah, I suspect the hose wouldn't stay put. The pine is the only stack I'm going to cover for now and see how well it stays in place. The 2" PVC is nice because it's big enough to slide over the first rib plus there must be some tension in it because after slicing it the slit closes up again. I had to spread it a little to slide onto the metal. Next attempt will probably be 8" long instead of 4", or maybe running a little piece of rope through some holes in the 4" pieces to keep the strap ropes from sliding off. I'm going to lose tension as the wood seasons and shrinks.