Bringin' up da Wood

[Old Greenhorn]

Just got home from the monthly chiro tune up. Every visit he hands me a sheet to fill out explaining my pain, any changes, etc.
There are two questions that ask:
'What causes your pain to increase?" Which I usually answer "Work" and the other aks "What do you find relieves your pain?" and I usually answer ""Rest".
This time I answered to the first one: "Fire wood" and to the second I answered :sitting by the fire".
He came in read, the chart, and just said "OK, I get it". :D

[JD Guy]

 
Yuppers, I gots Snow on da deck, 22° and dropping, and plenty of firewood brought up.  Here, hold my Purple Drank 'cause I gots this.   


 
Even built ah Snowman.....

Oldest grandson traveled from here in upstate SC to Hill AFB in Utah this week. (Took a DOD contractor job working with F35 program where he was in the USAF for 6 years prior to his getting out) Made the decision (good one) to take the southern most route across country to avoid winter weather. His first day out he spent the night in Biloxi with a former USAF buddy. Woke the next morning early to ice sickle hanging off his truck and super bad road conditions on I-10. Even had several detours off interstate due to bad bridges and accidents.. Told him it appeared that the only way to completely avoid the weather this year was to go through the Gulf of Mexico :D. He made it to Utah last night unscathed thankfully!!

[Magicman]

I am glad that he made the trip safely.   

We are forecast to see 18° for the next two nights and then rain for the next week but thankfully no temps below freezing.

[SwampDonkey]

That's quite a journey across the continent for anyone in the winter. Glad he's safe on the other end. A lad I worked with in BC tried to go through the mountains in the winter headed east and never made it. Not the place to be in a blizzard.

[cutterboy]

I had hope that  by now I wouldn't have to run the woodstove in the basement but just use the kitchen stove to supply enough heat till we didn't need heat any more. But with this weather we need the basement stove and it is still burning strong but I've run out of wood in the  basement so I have to bring in more wood from the barn. Usually I use the small Cub Cadet with the dump trailer to transport firewood right to the sliders to the basement. However with turf tires the Cub Cadet is no good in the snow and I've got 3" on an inch of sleet. So, I'll have to use the tractor. But, the ground is soft under the snow so I can't drive the tractor on the lawn. I'll have to drive the tractor around thru the field in back of the house up to the edge of the lawn and use a wheelbarrow to transport the wood into the basement. That should be fun!

[Magicman]

Crap, you are still bringin' up wood and I wheelbarrowed my remaining/unused wood back to the woodshed last week.

I hate for you guys that are still getting glacier blasted.  We have rain all of this coming week with lows in the high 40's & 50's. 

[SwampDonkey]

Only bringing up I did was a year ago. Right now bringing it 5 steps from the pile to the stove door.  No one will say I ran out of seasoned stove wood near the stove.

[Old Greenhorn]

I am still splitting wood for the shop stove to keep it going. It's my only heat there and we are still in the low 30's most nights. Today it should get over 40 in the afternoon. My house stove is running right ow, but I let it dies during the daylight hours, then re-fire in the evening.

[cutterboy]

So, bringing up the wood today.



The fire is burning merrily with the new load of wood.

My trusty old tractor is waiting patiently for me to take her back to the barn.

Monday and Tuesday highs in the 60s so I should be able to shut the stove down then.

[g_man]

It's about 100' from the basement door to the wood shed. Usually I shovel or snowblow a path and use my wood dolly with bicycle tires to bring in large wheel barrow sized loads of wood and park it next to the stove. But I waited to long to make my path and snow is to heavy for me to want to  shovel and the under powered blower only likes fluffy stuff when it is this deep. The ground is soft. So I'll have to use one of the old boat sleds we have from when the grandkids were small. Can drag that through the door and next to the stove too.

[thecfarm]

Won't have to use that sled for long. I suppose you will be getting that 60° weather? We are having rain-snow showers off and on all day. That will make the snow soft. I hope. 

[g_man]

It should be gone by the end of the week if not sooner. Even at cloudy 40* it is melting.

gg

[SwampDonkey]

It took 4 days of wind and rain at 40° to take down 20" of snow 2 weeks ago.   There's still 2" of crusty snow here in fields that will take a good week of warm weather to melt. Will be mostly gone by next Friday. Hasn't done a thing here all day. I see some bad weather off to the west of here in Maine. We get short peeks of sun here.

[GRANITEstateMP]

glad I had the basement about full of wood for this weeks storm

[thecfarm]

I brought up a bunch of wood too. But that snow should be well on its way by Monday night.
Had a light drizzle here all day, that made the snow even wetter.

[Magicman]

OK Guys, it is time. 

It is certainly not cold enough for a flicker yet, but we will be home from the hills after next week and who knows?  ??


Anyway, the stash is ready whenever cold comes.  This should be enough until Christmas. 

[Ron Scott]

It's always best to have your wood dry and ready to burn with easy access near the stove. Had our first wood fire in the insert one cool night a couple weeks ago before turning the furnace on.

[SwampDonkey]

Wood's arm reach from the shop stove, to the right of that chair. 

[Wlmedley]

I put a couple weeks worth of wood on the back porch today. We always have a little cold spell around the middle of October but it almost always warms back up. My only worry is that the electric will go off and my generator isn't big enough to power an electric furnace. I don't like letting my fire go out so I'll probably wait until sometime next month to get serious about burning it. First time using the SxS to haul wood and it surprisingly holds quite a bit and is easier to back up than my old method which was a 4wheeler pulling a trailer.

[SwampDonkey]

5 rounded up Ranger 570 buggy loads will fill my Tacoma. And around 12 rounded up buggy loads is a cord.   Going at next years wood starting this morning. I work half days. I first will go through the trails today and cut the woody suckers down, might be an hr doing that.

[Peter Drouin]

I have 4 cords of dry wood to put away. Then Dec 1 when I'm closed for the winter I will start cutting next year's wood.

[Magicman]

Our forecast is for 35° in the morning here in the hills but no fire. 

The leaves are pretty but not awesome, but we are not here for the leaves anyway. 

[SwampDonkey]

35° here this morning, a few passing showers last night, possible white stuff mixed in. Hard to say when it's dark out there and warm and dry in here. Doesn't look like enough wet coming to slow down the firewood cut'n. The next week or so is going to be dryer and warmer. I have a lot of older balsam to drop and buck up. It's not real old, but some is leaning hard from wind and some hasn't much green in the crown. I cut some of them thinned out crown ones and still white on most, sometimes a foot is cut off because of red punk present. It's pitchy stuff but splits and burns nice.

[Magicman]

We have now seen 25° one night and 30° last night.  Burrr, kinda chilly. 

I realize that this isn't about firewood, but the subject kinda came up here.  Fact is that if we were at home with these temps, there would be a flicker and smoke. 

[SwampDonkey]

Got the little shop woodshed all stuffed for next year.  And I mean stuffed to the top real good.



The bee maple and a yard beech, plus one buggy load of aspen down in the corner. Pretty close to 1.5 cords because I dropped some wood down between the two outside ranks as there was about a 10" gap between inside. I still had an armload of wood I took inside the shop because it just would not fit.  Darn it!