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Mish mash => Open Forum => Topic started by: B.D.F. on February 04, 2014, 03:10:43 PM
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Coming almost exactly on the anniversary of the Blizzard of '78, which dropped 54" of snow in northern RI. Brought the entire northeast US to a standstill. Can't tell how much this one will dump on is 'cause the forecasters keep moving the snowfall region lines; if they would bring the lines up just a tiny bit, we would get mostly rain. >:( At the moment, it is calling for somewhere between 3" and 8", which will be on top of the 5 or 6" we got yesterday. Looks like I will have to leave the Kawasaki and take the Honda. Not that KiPass won't save the day either way....
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But the Honda has tracks and they just work so much better in the snow than the best Michelin has to offer.
I know this is not a lot of snow for you guys in the snowbelt but it is a fairly big storm for us; we normally measure our snow in inches, not feet. :-)
No matter, plenty of wood (easy boys!) on the porch, generator and snow blower standing by so I should be able to dig out of this while keeping Kirby in the manner he has been accustomed to, which is dry, warm and watching TV.
Brian
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It's snow and freezing rain here and headed your way. Enjoy.
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Just rain here based on the temps...hopefully.
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Freezing rain, sleet, and snow here in Tulsa today, too Brian.
Lousy groundhog.......... >:(
Bob
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Hey Tulsa, welcome to the forum.
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Temps plummeted here in WA State, a nice brisk 30 this AM, still brrrrrrrrr at 35 :o
Brian, I can send you some more hoofs for added traction on the Kawi ;)
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Hey Tulsa, welcome to the forum.
Thanks!
(Sadly, I have to agree with your sig...)
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Thanks, and don't tell anybody, but the tracks on the Honda trump even Mr. Elkhoof, at least without the rest of the elk attached to him (it). Honda has made a near- perfect snow blower, although also near affordable. I got lucky and caught one a few years old (they do not change for years at a clip so it was the same as what was being sold new) that was as- new but at a used price. As someone once said, it is not a snowblower, it is a snow- hurling weapon :-)
Temps. here are 27 going to hold at 25: virtually perfect snowing weather and it leaves that dense, easily packed, 'heart attack' snow behind rather than the light, fluffy stuff we get at lower temps.
It won't be so bad here as I am well outside of anything even close to urban but I gotta' feel for the folks in NYC, Boston, et al. 'cause they just cannot deal with the snow very well and it cripples big cities. I guess the really great news is that these two storms (yesterday and tomorrow) are occurring just one DAY after the Super Bowl! That would have been spectacularly bad if either one or both hit before / during the game.
Brian
Temps plummeted here in WA State, a nice brisk 30 this AM, still brrrrrrrrr at 35 :o
Brian, I can send you some more hoofs for added traction on the Kawi ;)
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Been snowing off and on here since Friday. But not 54". We did get that once in 97. The drift on the deck completely covered the sliding glass doors. Couldn't even see daylight. Stay warm Brian!
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Lousy groundhog.......... >:(
Modify the spices a tad....
Rick
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As odd as this will sound from the great Pacific Northwet-we need more of anything wet related or else it's going to be a nasty Summer. Lake is easily 3 feet lower than the norm, front pond is at June levels and the back pond will have a hard time supporting a smallish sized bull frog.
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87 here :o
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Geez what a bunch of weenies. We haven't been above 20 for a couple of weeks here in MN. Our snow banks are hard to see over. I don't bother hauling out my 8 hp Toro two stage unless there is at least 6 inches on the ground. Okay the worst part of snow in the city is the traffic but we have that dialed in too. Last Thursday it snowed 7 " during morning rush hour and the ride home was dry and normal speeds. Atlanta we laugh at you.
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It's snowin and blowin here! Got about 8 inches of new snow on top of the 15 or so already down. The temps aren't bad, yet. 15f with a wind chill of zero. Going down to 10 below with the chill down to 25-30 below tonight.
I had to get up and shovel paths in the snow so that the dogs could get out and do their thing. Sookie, the snow dog, was out with me. She don't need no paths, she makes her own. Even when the snow is deeper than she is tall. :)
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We got about a foot of snow last night, and it will be a high of 5 degrees today. This sux.
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-10 last night and I'm running out of room to push the snow.
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What's this stuff about snow? :P
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What's this stuff about snow? :P
I think it looks something like this:
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Sorry.
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I think it looks something like this:
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Sorry.
Now that's just cruel.
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No snow here, but it was 19 when we butchered 2 pigs!! Helped keep the stink down and no flys to deal with.
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Well, it turned out to be about 6 inches (easy boys!) of the heaviest, wettest snow ever. All blown out and now waiting for the temps. to drop and turn everything into a skating rink out there. Still, not much of a big deal at all but at least the snow blower got some exercise.... and I only broke one shear bolt (less than average).
Brian
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Currently -15. This whole winter thing has lost its appeal.
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So sick of it all. I am in New Haven CT for the week. Snow everywhere. Monday and Wednesday dumps. The noreaster planned for Sunday seems to have vanished. Good news. My wife is home in Maine taking care of the snowblowwing for me. What a great woman. Lets spring in to spring already.
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Currently -15. This whole winter thing has lost its appeal.
Lost?
I can't say it ever had any appeal...
Jamie
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My snowblower :P 8) ;D
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Currently -15. This whole winter thing has lost its appeal.
Lost?
I can't say it ever had any appeal...
Jamie
Maybe you're not doing it right? ;)
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Maybe you're not doing it right? ;)
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I like it. But how much fun is it at -15?
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Currently -15. This whole winter thing has lost its appeal.
5* THIS A.M.
The storm dumped about 15 inches @ my house about 4 miles from the shore of Lake Erie over it's course, bringing my backyard total around 20 inches in the middle, drifting, and blowing mostly during the day yesterday.
pretty much the lake is frozen, all except about a mile off shore north of me, which feeds the lake effect snow machine..... ::)
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4 inches of snow and a quarter inch of ice made it a bit interesting yesterday coming home from Logan to Cleveland. Used to all amounts of snow but ice is a game changer for me. Coming off the mountain 5 miles down an unplowed dirt road with a 100 ft drop off and no guardrail was a pucker factor of 10 even though I have snow tires on all 4 corners. ;D
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17-degrees right now, high today 26. Somebody said there might be some accumulation light today. I had about 1/8" when I left work this morning for my 100 mile trip to work. Just heard they might be closing some schools early today.
Last Friday was 80-degrees, Sunday had sleet and freezing rain. Gotta love Texas weather.
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They called off school today. Not because of snow but because they couldn't get half the buses started.
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I like it. But how much fun is it at -15?
Just as with the bike, you have to dress for the cold temps. Pic #'s 1, 3, & 4 were taken at minus 18. 1 & 4 are on a frozen lake. We had a GREAT time and we did over 100 miles that day.
Currently, minus 10 with a minus 20 wind chill.
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1f here no wind
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1f here no wind
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It's the new english, Conrad. Get with the program already. You're retired. You should have time to re-learn the language.
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one...degree...Fahrenheit/no...wind
Does typing slowly help? ::)
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one...degree...Fahrenheit/no...wind
Does typing slowly help? ::)
No, not really. I tried reading it slowly and that did seem to help some. In so doing, I see now that you said ONE f, no wind. The first time I read it as "if here no wind". :-[
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That's the way I read it as well. I was going to nominate Gary to rewrite the Owner's Manual.....
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That's the way I read it as well. I was going to nominate Gary to rewrite the Owner's Manual.....
Time I have to not do that, yes.
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Who do you think you are, Yoda.
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Maybe you're not doing it right? ;)
True that...
About 15 years ago, I was living in North Bay, Ontario. (Despite it's name. North Bay is just about as far south as you can go and still be considered Northern Ontario.) Now Southern Ontario might seem like a wintry punishment to some of you southerners, but it's downright tropical compared to Northern Ontario. I'm from the south (Southern Ontario ;) ) and was working on a two year contract "back north" so, in an effort to fit in with the locals, I bought a sled - a Polaris Indy 650 (back then it was one of the biggest, baddest sleds you could get) and joined some guys I'd met on the local trails.
What a shock to someone who thought 'trails' meant a little path through the woods... The trails up there are wider than some highways, and sometimes maintained better than some northern roads... A trip to Timmins, from North Bay is about 4 hours in a vehicle on the highway. It's 2.5 hours screaming through the countryside on a trail as wide, and smoother than a 4 lane highway...
Yeah - it was fun. But I no longer have the sled, or the apparel. I'm back *south* again and the snow and/or cold is once again my enemy.
*South.... LOL... Gets me every time. It's downright fun saying that to you Texans and Floridians... :rotflmao:
Jamie
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True that...
About 15 years ago, I was living in North Bay, Ontario. (Despite it's name. North Bay is just about as far south as you can go and still be considered Northern Ontario.) Now Southern Ontario might seem like a wintry punishment to some of you southerners, but it's downright tropical compared to Northern Ontario. I'm from the south (Southern Ontario ;) ) and was working on a two year contract "back north" so, in an effort to fit in with the locals, I bought a sled - a Polaris Indy 650 (back then it was one of the biggest, baddest sleds you could get) and joined some guys I'd met on the local trails.
What a shock to someone who thought 'trails' meant a little path through the woods... The trails up there are wider than some highways, and sometimes maintained better than some northern roads... A trip to Timmins, from North Bay is about 4 hours in a vehicle on the highway. It's 2.5 hours screaming through the countryside on a trail as wide, and smoother than a 4 lane highway...
Yeah - it was fun. But I no longer have the sled, or the apparel. I'm back *south* again and the snow and/or cold is once again my enemy.
*South.... LOL... Gets me every time. It's downright fun saying that to you Texans and Floridians... :rotflmao:
Jamie
Hey! That's the same sled that I have now. A Polaris Indy 650. It's still a bas ass sled and will easily do 100mph. My sled is old and dated, a bit beat up too but it runs VERY well.
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This shoveling snow thing really sucks. You guys on the East Coast can keep this :censored:
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Who shovels snow anymore? Get yourself a nice little single stage 2 cycle snowblower, best thing I ever did for myself.
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To heck with the snow, go ride ;D
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Who shovels snow anymore? ...
Ditto.
my Axial JK Rubi out for some plowing vids!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxuYnGhg9Bs#)
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Some clarification, who shovels snow anymore in a northern climate is what I meant. ;D
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To heck with the snow, go ride ;D
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This explains why your not worried about riding through Utah in March.
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This explains why your not worried about riding through Utah in March.
;D
A winch WILL be along for the ride ;)
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Ditto.
my Axial JK Rubi out for some plowing vids!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxuYnGhg9Bs#)
Wow! Absolutely shocked that think can push even an inch of snow.
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We've had nothing but powder here this year and that RC plow would work quite nicely. I could just see myself pulling up a comfy chair in the garage with a beer and chips on the side bar and then take my time to RC plow the driveway.... Excellent. :thumbs: Americana at it's best.
I like this one.. http://www.robotshop.com/blog/en/roboplow-snowplow-robot-311 (http://www.robotshop.com/blog/en/roboplow-snowplow-robot-311)
In the summer you could rent it out to the local LEOs..
And then there's this...
Remote Control 6WD Snow Plow Robot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugTv4d8N80U#ws)
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This shoveling snow thing really sucks.
+1...
I just got done shoveling the driveway, started out with a tshirt, sweatshirt, coat, and gloves... by the time I was done I was down to just a tshirt and sweatin my ass off... :o
That's my workout for the day, time to start drinking now. :) :chugbeer:
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+1...
I just got done shoveling the driveway, started out with a tshirt, sweatshirt, coat, and gloves... by the time I was done I was down to just a tshirt and sweatin my ass off... :o
That's my workout for the day, time to start drinking now. :) :chugbeer:
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Get ur :censored: in the gym. (http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll112/tomdvaughan/emoticons/1310589265897.gif) (http://s286.photobucket.com/user/tomdvaughan/media/emoticons/1310589265897.gif.html)
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:o :doublepuke:
Hey that's your exercise bike isn't it? :-\
What did you do, let her sleep over? That's not how you normally roll bro... :-\
;D :chugbeer:
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Tough act to follow. :yikes:
I actually left Texas in late January with a trailer to head up to near Conrad country to buy a bike and bring it back to Texas. Picked it up and loaded
it on the trailer in between the two inch snow and the five inch snow and then left Chicago for Texas the day after the 7 inch snow. Plenty to shovel
and then re-shovel after the snow plow comes by and fills in the parts you just shoveled. Thought I'd never get out of there. The whole experience
brought back many unpleasant memories and reminded me why 100 degree summers in Texas just aren't all that bad.
When I headed north I didn't see much snow at all until I was at Pontiac IL. On the way back however, there was snow on the ground almost all the
way to the Red River. It was 62 degrees here yesterday when I was out washing the salt residue off of my trailer and car. 8)
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I think you guize is usin' the wrong shovels- go to the shovel store and buy the one marked 'Honda' or 'Ariens' or 'Toro'. While at the shovel store, but a shovel fuel container, then stop at the shovel fuel store on the way home. Pour some shovel fuel in the shovel, pull on the cord (or press the button depending on the shovel grade you bought) and shovel away....
Sort of like how burning wood will keep you warm four times:
Cutting
Splitting
Stacking
Burning
:-)
Brian
+1...
I just got done shoveling the driveway, started out with a tshirt, sweatshirt, coat, and gloves... by the time I was done I was down to just a tshirt and sweatin my ass off... :o
That's my workout for the day, time to start drinking now. :) :chugbeer:
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My solution:
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I don't understand. Where's the antenna?
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Who shovels snow anymore? Get yourself a nice little single stage 2 cycle snowblower, best thing I ever did for myself.
Since I find myself with plenty of time to do things these days :) I haven't got the snow blower out at all this year. I've been doing it the old fashioned way and getting a lil bit of a workout whilst I'm at it.
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I think you guize is usin' the wrong shovels- go to the shovel store and buy the one marked 'Honda' or 'Ariens' or 'Toro'. While at the shovel store, but a shovel fuel container, then stop at the shovel fuel store on the way home. Pour some shovel fuel in the shovel, pull on the cord (or press the button depending on the shovel grade you bought) and shovel away....
Sort of like how burning wood will keep you warm four times:
Cutting
Splitting
writing a check
Stacking
Burning
:-)
Brian
FIFY
Since your wood is delivered to your front porch. ;)
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Since I find myself with plenty of time to do things these days :) I haven't got the snow blower out at all this year. I've been doing it the old fashioned way and getting a lil bit of a workout whilst I'm at it.
Be careful. A man of your age.....
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Be careful. A man of your age.....
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Yeah, the back yard but you're right- and I don't stack it 'cause I cannot think of a bigger waste of effort. I just leave it in the pile the dump truck makes. Then I am down to one handling when I load the trailer that I use to bring it to the porch.... if I could get around that one, I could have it so the first time I touched the wood was when I was putting it in the stove.
Brian
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Since your wood is delivered to your front porch. ;)
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On the stacking thing--somewhere around '76 Pappy shut off the oil furnace, prices were just crazy he said. Wood was the answer, so come summer time it was off to the woods we went, a bike and 3 wheeler in the bed of the pickup and 2-3 chainsaws, 2 gallons or premix gas for the saws, and a jug of bar oil, 2 mauls, 4 wedges, 2 axes, and an empty gas can for the bikes. We would cut big rounds from downed trees, (fir, no hemlock allowed) roll them down to the truck (unless of course it was the best of the best old growth, which we would roll up hill, across a creek or whatever was in the way), roll them into the truck and repeat until the wood was almost level with the cab. Run it home and dump it in a predetermined spot (wood shed is about 100 yards away, but seeing as this wood is for a couple families close to the road so they can get their "split" after we split the wood). Repeat this several times during the day. Eventually we would get the green light to go ride ( we filled the gas can on the way back from dropping off a load of wood). While we were riding Pappy was getting the last bit of wood, usually the extra thick bark and other easily handled bits, run that home (about a 1 hour trip each way). We would get back, load the tools and toys, spend an hour in the dark finding at least one of the wedges, and head home listening to the Mariners on the AM radio. Sunday was the day to start splitting, no stacking yet, as we still hadn't "split" the shares yet. Sunday eve it was back to moms place. The following Friday saw us splitting some more, repeat splitting on Saturday, with the family who is getting a "split" of the wood showing up to help split the pile. Needless to say the split pile is really stacking up by this time. A truck is backed up to the pile and is stacked neatly into the truck as it can carry more this way (yes, a 3/4 (camper special with helper springs) ton truck can hold an entire true cord (4X4X8, no gaps greater than a squirrel size) of wood if stacked properly. Do this all day, if we had good old growth fir we would usually be done splitting by the end of the day. Go ride around the property as a reward for working, Pappy would start hauling his "split" of the split wood to the wood shed using our old Gibson tractor and home spun trailer. I forgot to mention the movement of last years seasoned wood to the basement, once the basement was filled, we would move the seasoned wood to the front left bay of the wood shed (8X15 bay 10' tall). Sunday saw us moving the split wood to the shed and carefully stacking the wood, at 4 foot intervals (vertical) we would string some barbless fence wire to the end poles to keep the piles from shifting (who wants to re stack all that wood, right?) Once the back bay was filled we would start stacking the wood in the right front bay. Once the wood shed was filled (Brian has seen this wood shed FWIW) anything left over got added to the families split. We often helped several families out as that is what friends do, we had the saws and we had the truck that was dependable and sturdy enough to haul the wood. Pappy also had the 2 sons that could be coerced into working for the price of a gallon or 2 of gas. I neglected to mention the back porch-it has a space below for wood to be on hand for the inside stack to feed the basement stove. The porch itself has space to stack a weeks worth. Inside the house we had a wood box to be filled for the evenings fire, yes stacked neatly. Many years later (think 1999) Pappy was starting to age and good wood was getting tougher to find, and my brother and I had our own families and didn't live close by. I convinced him that a pellet stove would be much easier and more efficient. He caved in and got an insert model for the upstairs and made a space to STACK the bags of pellets in the basement. Finally, something that only needed one stack ;D We still have the basement stove, but that cut our wood needs by a third (heat rises and Pappy likes a nice warm floor for his feet). So, go ahead, skip the stacking, we understand who the Maryjanetinklepants is ;)
Remember, this is all because the price of fuel oil went up to some 75 cents a gallon. :)
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SOOOOOO
after doing the front drive for the third time in 2 days, I decided to help out the dog, seeing as she simply can't make it thru the yard to her favorite spots.... the snow varies up to almost 3 feet in some spots....
I encircled the perimeter of the 3 Freaking acres... and then criss-crossed back and forth to allow better fun....
Momma shot this picture of me yesterday....
5 minutes after I completed this, there were a half dozen deer strolling the paths to the house... whatta hoot.
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That's a lot of wood and work C!
I was out this morning splitting wood myself. I have a bunch of seasoned wood that needed to be split a bit and since it's been so damn cold I used up all the right sized pieces already.
Man, it is so easy to split wood when it's below zero outside! I must have looked like a serious lumberjack because I didn't even have to swing that maul very hard to split 24" diameter logs. Heck I was even splitting the knurly logs with ease. At that temp it's more like cleaving then splitting. :o
Hey look, it's warmed up to 2 but at least the sun is shinning. :_shudder_Emoticon
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SOOOOOO
after doing the front drive for the third time in 2 days, I decided to help out the dog, seeing as she simply can't make it thru the yard to her favorite spots.... the snow varies up to almost 3 feet in some spots....
I encircled the perimeter of the 3 Freaking acres... and then criss-crossed back and forth to allow better fun....
Momma shot this picture of me yesterday....
5 minutes after I completed this, there were a half dozen deer strolling the paths to the house... whatta hoot.
Fun for who, you or the dogs? :)
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Fun for who, you or the dogs? :)
for the dog... ;)
also, I was getting a bit worried that there will be a massive amount of yellow & brown snow tidbits close to the house.....
as this all thaws.... someday.... 8) :'(
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Yup, back in the olden days I did the same thing, without all the stacking of course. But then I tripped over a great source of wood: the dead ends of the hardwood used to make pallets. Set up a system where I would pick the wood up in 4' cube steel cages, trailer them home, take them off the trailer and dump them with the backhoe. It was pretty slick.... right up until the pallet manufacturer burned down (seriously).
Round these parts, we burn hardwood exclusively (soft wood (easy boys!) doesn't coal, doesn't last as long and doesn't have the same weight or heat value of hard woods). It is getting tough to find places to cut any standing wood (easy!) so the next best thing was getting log length wood and cutting / splitting it ourselves. But that too has dried up because everyone cutting any amount of wood has a processing station which cuts and splits the logs and they won't sell full logs anymore. So in the end, the most reasonable way is to simply buy cordwood. With the trailer / porch setup, it is pretty easy to handle and use, costs me less than $1,000 / year to heat the house (to underwear levels- it is NOT chilly in my house).
But I am not stacking firewood even once, never mind several times. :( I only modestly 'arrange' it at best and that is only when I am putting it in the stove.
Brian
<snipped all the scary story that made me tired reading it>
So, go ahead, skip the stacking, we understand who the Maryjanetinklepants is ;)
Remember, this is all because the price of fuel oil went up to some 75 cents a gallon. :)
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Pics of real wood!!
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Last pic. I bet someone could make the case that this wood warmed us many times over. Snowstorm, I laugh at you ;D ;D ;D
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Well, I have to give it to you that when you do cut a piece of wood, it is most certainly worth picking up :-)
The problem with processed wood is that 1) the split sizes are kinda' small, although that is up to the processors themselves and the split grate they use but most people seem to want pretty small wood as it is easier to start in a fireplace. ::) The other problem is that all the edges of the log seem to end up as toothpick sizes and they are a royal pain in the butt to handle, load and then they make about 4 BTU's. So at least the wood you are handling there (easy boys but that was kinda' funny!) is worth bothering with.
Brian
Last pic. I bet someone could make the case that this wood warmed us many times over. Snowstorm, I laugh at you ;D ;D ;D
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I need to find some pics of the 6' bar and some of the stuff we cut with that, from both sides. One in particular was across a stream that was diverting water over an active logging road. Couldn't get the truck all that close and the mud was terrible. Ended up making 2 paths with the bark, one to roll the rounds, and one for the return trip. Yes, Pappy recovered most of the bark, which is the best for banking the fire at night. Reminds me, I need to go visit that spot, still filled with majestic old growth trees and the ground is covered with moss...