Where's Bunny??

Coon · November 04, 2007, 05:11:20 PM

Was just wondering if Sprucebunny has been around lately. I sent her a message days ago with no response..... Anyone hear from her lately?

Brad_S. · November 04, 2007, 05:24:53 PM

She must be a busy woman. She posted in the Forestry and Logging board a few days ago so we know at least she's alive and well! :D

SwampDonkey · November 04, 2007, 05:44:10 PM

Probably trying to make a living like everyone else. ;D

Coon · November 04, 2007, 09:43:21 PM

True enough Donk, True enough. It is just very unusual for her not to check in. I know life can get very hectic at times. I was gone for quite some time myself a short while ago but I'm back. :D :D

Furby · November 04, 2007, 09:57:53 PM

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pappy · November 05, 2007, 09:17:46 AM

Firewood season in the northeast would be my bet ??? Winta's a comin' !!!
Plus didn't she get that refurnished Bombie going ??? She's gotta be cuttin' wood !!!

Just got ours (firewood) done late Saturday afternoon, wood splitter's put away and it started raining like h3ll then turned to snow in the middle of the night !!!

Still got 3" snow on the grown this a.m.

All 11 cords under cover,,, pheeeew made it again ;D

beenthere · November 05, 2007, 11:28:57 AM

pappy
Do you burn that fresh split wood this winter? :

???

sprucebunny · November 05, 2007, 06:35:34 PM

Sorry for not answering, Brad, and thanks for your concern

Still don't have the J5 going quite right ... now it needs the carb rebuilt and I'm intimidated : so many small parts

Don't have enough firewood yet.

Started to build a 8x12 hut to get warm in during the winter and decided that the woodstove in it would have the potential to heat something else ... like a travel trailer ;D and since it didn't look like I'd ever have the money to build a camp ( never mind the taxes

) , it was a good time to get a used travel trailer instead of just dreaming of a camp.

So, I've been up at the land working on the warming hut and trying to make the furnace in the trailer stop squeaking and dreaming of woodheat ;D

I always feel so hurried in the fall. Winter is coming but you never know just when everything will get buried by snow. :D

SwampDonkey · November 05, 2007, 06:40:05 PM

Need to start closer on the front end of fall, and not on the back slide. ;D :D

customsawyer · November 05, 2007, 07:10:16 PM

That is risky SwampDonkey, telling a woman what to do. ;D

SwampDonkey · November 05, 2007, 08:19:17 PM

Oh no, just a suggestion. ;)

sawguy21 · November 05, 2007, 11:20:56 PM

It will be interesting to see where this conversation goes. ;)

sprucebunny · November 06, 2007, 07:50:47 AM

Last winter I cut about a cord of 3-4" logs for firewood. Pin cherry doesn't have many BTUs, though.

About August, I made a deal with a tree service guy for 10,000 BF of wood to be delivered in exchange for a rusty old F350 dump truck. He has been a little slow. So far, I've gotten about 4MBF of nice pine , oak, hemlock and spruce that i sawed up ( some I've nailed up ;D )

I've been expecting the straight truck full of firewood any day now. Sure will be alot easier than collecting it from my land and then trucking it here, myself !!! I really hope the guy comes thru; I don't want to plow around the F350 anymore :D

Another small woodlot we have has some standing dead beech that I've been counting on for dry wood but I haven't got to it yet. Only just getting cool enough to wear all the gear and waddle around in the pricker bushes :D

pappy · November 06, 2007, 08:05:50 AM

Quote from: beenthere on November 05, 2007, 11:28:57 AM
pappy
Do you burn that fresh split wood this winter? : ???

BT,
No we don't burn green wood,,,,

But this is the way our firewood detail has been going for the last 4 or 5 years or so,,,

In August we buy 6 cords (128 cu. ft.) at $145 of almost seasoned hard and soft maple with a little yellow birch mixed in... Jen (me misses) brings in 5 of it into the cellar (walk in basement) by wheel barrel and places the other one by the side of the woodshop.... Takes her time, about a month of picking at it.... We direct a window fan towards the pile in the cellar with a dehumidifier going for about a month or so till there ain't no more water in the dehumidy bucket....

Then in September we buy another cord of maple for the camp "Outback" .... BUT!!! in the mean time we've been sawing some at the band mill and picking out the bigger sized edgings, mostly pine / cedar and cut them up in the cross-buck to 16" lengths ... We've got a lean-too / storage shed off the side of the bunk house and a small porch on the cook shack where we can pile about four cords in all...

Then we poke around the farm and a friends property next door where we rummage around for downed / poor quality / standing dead poplar and this is the wood we need the wood splitter for... This fire wood is piled at the shop for late / early season burning in the shop which is usually dry enough come spring...

When the snow starts to fly that's it we're done messin' with wood outside... Stayed cold enough yesterday so the snow we got over the weekend stayed and it snowin' pretty Dang good right now... Yahoo bring it on cause it's almost time to break out the sled ,,, snow-sled that is... smiley_bouncing_pinky

Coon · November 06, 2007, 11:05:30 AM

Sounds like you've been rather busy there Bunny. I guess we all have been because of the time of year it is. Everyone around here seems to be scurrying around to get things done before the snow flies. I haven't got any firewood cut for myself yet but am hoping to get at it this week or next. Been keeping busy getting vehicles ready for the winter. I don't need a whole lot of firewood as we have this new pellet heater in the house.

Grawulf · November 06, 2007, 04:04:47 PM

Well! We found Bunny. 8) Anybody know about Buzz? Was wondering how his son was doing - checked his last active and it's been many moon. Puter broke? I miss his sage advice!