Kind people have been cutting and splitting wood for the winter. Loyal drives up a trailer of wood, and I stack it. The wood shed is filling up. Monday I emptied a trailer and abracadabra! Another one appeared Since rain was forecast Monday night, I covered the wood with tin This morning was cool and relatively bug-free so I started in stacking. Progress! The oldest lightest wood and new kindling are almost at two ricks …
After more than a week of rainy weather, it was great to get sunshine today. This morning, before the heat and mosquitoes, I headed out to start unloading a trailer of wood and stacking it for the cook stove. Before the mosquitoes bothered me I had between a third and a half of the trailer unloaded. the shorter or longer pieces went to bulb crates. Long pieces will go into the larger wood stove on …
During Wednesday’s sunny weather I sorted wood. Friends had cut 40″ wood to shorter lengths that would fit in the cook stove. It isn’t an even division, so I sort longer (but short enough to fit in cook stove) and stack. I am on the second rick of that wood. Short pieces go into bulb crates and come into the house for burning. I filled not …
Friends have been helping me cut wood for this winter – and maybe winters to come! When Ken died there were several piles of wood split and cut to 40″ for the side stoke holes on the wood pottery kiln. I had never used a chainsaw. Ken had bought a small one for me, but I couldn’t start it; Ken would start it and then use it… Since 40′ does …
Today I had a great surprise. A young friend, Ryan was in the area and was ready to help buzz up some of the kiln wood. There is a pile of mixed length Ken and I had stacked for the side stoke holes in the pottery kiln. Ryan jumped up and cut. I pitched into a trailer. Once that one was full, Ryan moved it close to where I …
Today I got the two trailers mostly unloaded. What remains is wood that will NOT fit in the cook stove, but WILL fit in the larger wood stove. I need to bring it to another wood pile on the other side of the house to another pile. I waited until I was done so that it would just be one trip. Here are the two trailers And that third …
Ken and I heated with wood. Ken felled trees, and I would place them on end, Ken would split them, I would put them in the trailer and Ken would drive it into the yard where I would stack the wood. Later we got a splitter that could split 40″ wood for side stoking the pottery kiln. Now that Ken is gone I have to face that I never ran a chainsaw, rarely ran …
