The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[mike_belben]

Really Mike? I have a huge clothes rack, like 9' tall. On a windy hot day, I can dry everything in 20 minutes. In winter it can hang there 2 days and still be frozen stiff. Neighour is a big wash and hang to dry house wife, but in winter it ain't out there unless airing out, not dripping wet. :D

Yes really.  It aint my fault your air is busted up there.  ;D
Im not gonna fib about laundry. It really happened,  last week or so.  Dry air in summer is a bit of a rarity.  But it can be completely swampy/misty in summer and that really slows down the drying whether on the line or in the machine thats outside on the porch.. A dixie tradition. 

[SwampDonkey]

Your air would be busted to if it were -20F below, if not the plastic coating on your clothes line would be. :D

[Al_Smith]

It seems like it's always something ,one thing after an other .Starter problem with a tractor ,after using three starters  to make one that's fixed .Jeep hydraulics froze up .Raised the blade with a cable come along will thaw it out in the garage later .Then the danged new propane high efficiency furnace had a moment .
Fault code "flame escape ,spread  "or something which meant basically a down draft on the exhaust .WTH is that ? Come to find out I need to install a double 90 on the exhaust  pipe to prevent that . I would have thought that could have been mentioned that in the installation instructions . >:(Live and learn .---I'm supposed to be retired not working my tail off every day .Besides that it's not real warm out this time of the year working outside like Nanook of the north.----mumble grumble ---
On the other hand slowly and surely I'm getting rather well versed with high tech heating systems which prior I knew very little about so it's not a total lose .All that said I've still got to haul firewood as we have a storm bearing down on us with 8 to 12 inches of snow on the way .Global warming maybe . ??? 

[PoginyHill]

I hung laundry out on the line a few days ago that didnt spin well and it had icicles dripping out of it.  Was a stone cold gusty night.  Next morning that laundry was dry.  In summer it woulda took 3 sunny humid days, or 2 windy ones.

I think its the dry air on really frigid nights.  Airborne moisture crystallizes out of suspension and drops to the ground which leaves the air able to pick up more moisture than usual i guess.


With dirtwork a cool windy days is just as good at drying our dirt and mud roads as a sunny one.

Well, I guess the thermodynamics geek in me will come out now. Several things at play here. Energy flows from higher energy to lower energy. The bigger the difference, the faster it flows. Relatively warm water in clothes has a lot more energy than the dry air it is exposed to. The quickest way for the water to rid itself of energy is to evaporate. The dry air is more than welcome to accept it. Wind is also adding energy to the clothes by flopping them around, enhancing the flow of energy (water vapor) to the dry air.
Ice can also go from frozen to vapor without becoming water - its called sublimation. That's why ice cubes in your freezer will slowly get smaller over time.
When the air is warm and humid, it is already at capacity with water vapor (air temp is near dew point - near 100% relative humidity) and won't be sucking up moisture from damp clothes as readily.
Pardon the science spewing, but I must admit, it's fun sometimes...

[woodroe]

Oh yeah, solor heat here can get 77-85F by 10:00 am until 4:30 pm in the winter. Little smudge in the early morning, then let'r go. Right now I throw 2 or 3 sticks in once in awhile to heat the grow tent. Keep the fan on.  Window open right now, 0F outside, feels nice. Free air exchanger to. :D If I wasn't running the grow tent, I'd burn less wood. Stuff grows better 75-80 degrees than 60-65 degrees, better germ. to. Basement is cooler than living space. Still have winter squash down there, keeping well.  I'm not paying no $2 a pound, one of them 10 lb squash would be $20. Lordy!

Made the mistake of starting a morning wood stove fire in the kitchen yesterday. 
With full sun was about 80 inside by 10. Not doing that again today.
Tied with Ray at -10* this morning. 

[cutterboy]

PoginyHill, thanks for the science lesson. You explained that very well.

[KEC]

I have always thought it strange that you go outside in the winter and there is moisture in the air (vapor), liquid water here and there and snow  and ice (solid), all at the same time. What other substances can be found in vapor, liquid and solid form at the same time ?

[PoginyHill]

Almost every substance has a "triple point" - the temperature and pressure a substance can exist as a gas, liquid, and solid. The kicker here is exist in equilibrium. That point for water is 32F at a pressure just above a perfect vacuum. Any slight change in temp or pressure from that point will turn H20 into all vapor, all water, or all ice.


But the gaseous form of substances can mix in other gases, such as air, under different conditions than the triple point. That involves partial pressures and is above my paygrade to explain.


But for the everyday example of water and ice - they are not normally in equilibrium. Ice forming on a pond is not in equilibrium because water underneath is slightly warmer, being warmed by the earth and is "turning over" because of water's unique property of becoming less dense just as it approaches the freezing point. Water is most dense at 39F. Warmer and colder than that it becomes less dense. Most substances become more dense continuously as temperature drops even into their solid form.

[hedgerow]

PoginyHill   EQUILBRIUM.  There's that word I haven't seen  in the last four and half years since I retired from working on freeze dryers to freeze dry animal vaccines. 

[mike_belben]

Your air would be busted to if it were -20F below, if not the plastic coating on your clothes line would be. :D

Yeah i escaped that rut and am not going back.  

Plastic coated clothesline?  Pfft. What kinda civilized person do you take me for?  

Try high tensile galvanized 12.5 awg electric fence wire.  I wonder if things would dry faster hooked to the charger.


The washer is on the porch with just cold groundwater that would freeze at the spigot if not for a frost tape.  The washer freezes up pretty often but its better to have laundry every few days than go to the laundromat every week with all your money like we did for years.  


Starting over after you lose it all aint easy folks, trust me.  Avoid risk.

[PoginyHill]

PoginyHill   EQUILBRIUM.  There's that word I haven't seen  in the last four and half years since I retired from working on freeze dryers to freeze dry animal vaccines.

Hope I didn't conjure up any bad memories.

[Magicman]

 

 
I had this whack of split Red Oak firewood at the Cabin that needed to come home so...


 
With my sawing postponed and waiting on my customer's 'no show' help, I made a quick trip this morning.


 
OK, it ain't as neat as cutterboy but it is stacked in my woodshed.  This should take care of me for next year. 

[Al_Smith]

The only time i see laundry on the clothes lines any more it belongs to the German Baptists  in this area and it isn't on the line this time of year .They do have driers you know . Fact just about anything except a TV and a computer . Yes indeed in case anybody asked I have been "clothes lined " as a kid  .Dang that hurt .

[SwampDonkey]

The washer is on the porch with just cold groundwater that would freeze at the spigot if not for a frost tape.  The washer freezes up pretty often but its better to have laundry every few days than go to the laundromat every week with all your money like we did for years.

:D :D  You're not alone.
"It got above 32F today so I dug the washing machine out of the snow bank" :D :D :D

Washing Clothes - YouTube

Shied your eyes @Roxie , washing the long handles. ;D

[Roxie]

And I hollered out "Ethel, don't look Ethel!"  But it was too late, she'd already been incensed!   :D :D

[Corley5]

That's a modern Maytag.  No gas engine ;D ;D

[doc henderson]

MM in MS that looks like 10 years of firewood.  good for you!  

[Wlmedley]

 

 Found a good use for metal shipping crate woodland mills sawmill came in.Holds about a weeks supply.

[newoodguy78]

Waste not want not 

[Big_eddy]

No picture, but we finished off our log pile today (in the rain and after dark) and tidied up a bit in advance of expected snows tomorrow.

Working a few hours on weekends and an hour or two each evening, we processed the last tandem load in 12 days.  So we have ordered another two loads of logs. That should keep us busy until syrup season starts

[Al_Smith]

It isn't much today but it was easy to get to .Used my little buddy 024 Stihl my $50 special .It's enough for maybe half a week . Bone dry hard as concrete dead standing ash .This is small enough it won't need split .The trailer is full of oak so I used the garden cart .Fact I found more dead standing so it looks like I'll make it this winter in spite of getting behind the 8 ball .

  

[SwampDonkey]

If the woods is old enough and you have a few acres where you can find snags around, you won't be froze out. ;D

I've still got 4 cords in the house and 3-1/2 outside under the porch all seasoned. It doesn't look like I'm going to be burning much more than a cord this month. Been working on part of a rank left over from last month, that was waste high x 10' long. Then probably burn one full rank, 6-1/2' high after. Two ranks is ~ 1.5 cords.

[thecfarm]

I don't think I will ever run out of dead trees!!! 
Then there are the ones that will never make a saw log.
It's never ending at The C Farm.  ;D

[HemlockKing]

The snag farm ..  

[Al_Smith]

Well I had half dozen ash logs I could get to .Problem was they were frozen fast .I had thought I had 
cribbed them up but evidently had not .Typical Ohio , last week some days never got above10-12 degrees .Today it hit 42 . Who knows next week it might be below zero .It's entirely possible within a year for the temps to fluctuate over100 degrees  within a year .It takes me a while to get used to cold weather but after that I do okay with it .That winter in Key West in 1967 thinned my blood I think .