A little firewood

[HiddenMountain]

Well, after years of hunting for my own firewood, I finally decided to have some delivered.

A nice mix of fir, alder, maple and birch.







That oughta get us through the winter, (or two or three).......

If your wondering why I would have wood delivered to a forest, all of the easy firewood has been harvested and it's a TFLA, or Tree Farm License Area, and  we aren't allowed to cut the conifers down because forestry mega corp owns the timber rights....

That, and my work schedule doesn't give me enough time.

[Tritium]

Those look better than most telephone poles in my part of the world. 

Wish I had some of that alder for smoking meat. Mesquite smoking gets old
sometimes but I do have some apricot wood that makes an absolutely fabulous smoked brisket or pork ribs.

Thurmond

[12AX7]

Time to haul out the ax, maul, and wedges.

Or chain saw and wood splitter?

Don't forget the Advil!


ax7

[HiddenMountain]

Those look better than most telephone poles in my part of the world. 

Wish I had some of that alder for smoking meat. Mesquite smoking gets old
sometimes but I do have some apricot wood that makes an absolutely fabulous smoked brisket or pork ribs.

Thurmond

Thurmond, I used to truck down into the US and only made it into Texas once, for 3 weeks while my truck was repaired in Amarillo. It would take me a long time to get tired of mesquite! There has to be some old orchards around that'll let you clean up the dead stock, eh? If there was a cheap way to ship you an alder tree, I'd do it! I wonder how much Fed Ex would charge...........

Time to haul out the ax, maul, and wedges.

Or chain saw and wood splitter?

Don't forget the Advil!


ax7

No axe, but cutting it small enough for the pickup truck and trailer to haul it the last 3 miles up to our place. Been wearing out my old Ford going back and forth every day.

Then the chainsaw, wedges and maul, wheel barrow and step ladder to get it stacked up to the roof of the woodshed......

And I never even thought of Advil. I do have sore muscles that I didn't even know I had!

A wood splitter, now that WOULD be NICE! We don't have any young bucks in the "neighborhood" anymore, so I can't even get some cheap labor. My wife says the the word "lazy" isn't to be used to describe me!

Ah, country life, I do love it....

Jon

[luv2weld]

I'm sure there are a few lazy folks that live in the country (or outback, wilderness, whatever you want to call it)
But most of us are too busy trying to survive to even think about being lazy.
Heck, most of the time I'm too busy to get anything done!!!

Sounds like it's time for you to start scrounging around for the parts to build your own wood splitter.
I know, I know. No time for that, too busy trying to survive!!

Ralph

[HiddenMountain]

You know it Ralph!

When I got the place out here, there was nothing. No house, no power, no internet, nuthin. I was busy from the moment I got up until I literally fell into my tent at the end of the day.

Then when visiting friends and family, they would always ask, "What do you do up there, don't you get bored?" You just have to live it to understand I guess.....

Ancient Chinese Proverb, "House done, man die".  Looks like I'll be around for a while yet!

Heck, most of the time I'm too busy to get anything done!!!

^Ain't it the truth brother!

There was an old log splitter sitting down the hill from my place for years, it needed a lot of work to get it going again but now I'm thinking it would have been a good idea to grab it before the scrap scrounges found it.