The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[SwampDonkey]

We've got about 42" of snow here now, 26" this week so far, so wading around after snags up here with a tractor or even on foot isn't going to happen. :D It's not even fun for a smaller skidder, you have to drop and winch to even move. :D Two skidders near here are parked at the house. :D There's probably close to 5 feet of snow on the back side of the wood pile for next year. I keep the front cleared near the house. We are due for a quick February meltdown soon. Then some more real cold. ;D Sunday-Tuesday looks cold again. Be more ice. :D

[cutterboy]

I've been splitting a lot of wood the past two weeks. I have the wood splitter set up in the barn just inside the big barn door. I bring the rounds into the barn in the tractor bucket so it is handy for me to grab and split.


 
This is what my storage area looked like two or three weeks ago.

 
and then this morning and then this afternoon.


 

 
The row I'm working on is the last row on this section. When it is finished I'll move to the other side of the barn and start all over again.

[thecfarm]

A full woodshed is a warm feeling. 

[SwampDonkey]

The pile keeps growing. Mine keeps growing with snow on top. ;D :D

[Al_Smith]

Mine has not yet reached the pile stage .

[jimbarry]

Crackin' and stackin' weather.



 

[Magicman]

A Superbowl Log:

I am not much on football anyway because I never played, and then with the "flag flap" I ceased watching, but that mess has died down so.....

I had always saved a nice log and appropriately named it the Superbowl Log and it was burned on Superbowl Day if it was cold enough to warrant building a fire.  It's cold enough today but I didn't really have a suitable log so I retrieved my 'kindling chopping block' and thusly named it a Superbowl Log.


 
Being a full 12" X 14" and with a sorta fork, I didn't know whether I could get it into the firebox in the insert without burning myself but with some twisting and grunting it finally fit.  So there it is and it will surely burn for the rest of the day no matter who wins.
  

[HemlockKing]

Crackin' and stackin' weather.

You look about 10-15 years younger than 55 Jim. Must be from all the exercise that is making firewood
Neat looking operation

[jimbarry]

...without burning myself but with some twisting and grunting it finally fit.  ...
 

I picked up a set of leather welding mitts that go 3/4 up the forearm. Keep them beside the stove. Best $20 ever spent. 

[Nebraska]

 

 

 

Neighbor said come get it. 5 or 6 loads.

[SwampDonkey]

Nice to work without snow and mud. ;D

[Nebraska]

Very odd indeed. Minus 2 the other morning.  We are horribly dry, only about 4 or 5 inches of snow for the year so far. Normally we get about 6 to 8 weeks where its fairly white. About Christmas to Valentines Day. Never remember a winter this open.  Decided I'd better get on those while it's dry and frozen and easy to get to.

[Al_Smith]

It was about 7  going on 8 years ago took a trip on interstate 80 to Denver .I 80 goes through some open country near Ogallala ,didn't see too many trees .Did however pass a dairy operation  that must have had 2,000 Holsteins  and hay stacks 30-40 feet high and 200 yards long .Dang that was a lot of hay .Passed a grain train prior to that had 4 power units on the back,4 in the middle and 4 on the lead .That thing had to be 3 miles long .Interesting state I must say .

[SwampDonkey]

I've seen trains like to coming from the prairies and Piece River across the width of British Columbia and all those mountain ranges into the terminal at Port Edward, which is 500 miles north of Vancouver. Coal trains to, same port. They keep going and going and going. :D More than one train tunnel to go through. Kicking Horse Pass is one site to see, I have not been there, but the folks have been.

[Al_Smith]

I finished toting in the firewood changed into the Carhart arctic,14 degrees  and took a walk about .In my back fence row I came across a scad of wind falls .Nice dead ash  ,bone dry and up off the ground around 6 inch to 10 .Perfect .It will take some fancy backing but I can get right next to them .File the chain on the 024 Stihl and make the chips fly .That's a better option than going to the gym like the country club set in designer sweat  suits .Old blue jeans ,Red Wing boots ,flannel shirt and a ragged well used Carhart coat .works for me  8) Supposed to get up nearly 50 in the next couple of days which is a lot better than 20 .

[Al_Smith]

It got up to over 30 today and no wind so it wasn't bad at all .I got a little bit but my word that EAB killed ash is about like iron wood  This is just shy of half a cord and I had to file twice .My little 024 Stihl did grunt a bit chewing away on those larger rounds .

 

[stavebuyer]

Al,

Glad to see your wife's SUV got parked and you got your tractor out! 

[Big_eddy]

Nice evening for cutting and splitting  

 
The moon came out so we got an extra half hour in.

[Al_Smith]

Her Envoy is a cream  puff ,that old Fergy is a warrior .Dang short tongue trailer .I can put a semi in hole a lot easier than that thing .

[Old Greenhorn]

Short trailers can make any experienced sober driver look like a fall down drunk who shouldn't be driving.  :D :D Some of my best entertainment (except when I am the driver).

[Al_Smith]

That trailer is worse on the back of that old Jeep. First you can't see real good where it's going plus as short as a CJ Jeep is it doesn't have a short turning radius .

[doc henderson]

Al I had a CJ5, what the heck kind a jeep is that?

[SwampDonkey]

I had an old WWII vet buddy that owned one of those, he was always fixing a winch or installing a drive shaft. :D :D Then, what does he do? Goes out and buys a Grand Cherokee for him and the dogs. :D He lost his wife to cancer, so those dogs where like his kids. They were anyway before she passed, but even more so. His conversations where like how he could out talk anyone else in the conversation. :D :D Some people don't like that, but my grandfather and I thought it was a hoot. He got even one Halloween. He was toothless, although he had false teeth he never wore. So grandfather, the joker he was, gifted him a bag of molasses caramels you can only buy at Halloween. He got a kick out of him trying to out talk and have caramel juice run down his chin. :D :D 

[Al_Smith]

Al I had a CJ5, what the heck kind a jeep is that?

It's a CJ 5 also I think 1964-65 but it's the parts from two or three .My dad did at least a dozen total rebuilds from the frame up and this is his last .I've got enough parts in my shop I could almost make another one
This one I still haven't got it right yet but considering dad did this work when he was over 80 years old the ole boy done good .His best was a 1948 CJ-2A it ended up in Texas and the guy drove it from north western Ohio all that way at about 45 miles per hour because those old duffers were slow as a snail but they could climb a tree if they found traction .

[cutterboy]

Yesterday back at it, on the edge of a field. Cut an ash and some small maples. Most of my fields are bare now but the edge of this one still had snow.


 


 

 
Some 4 footers


 
Some rounds


 
back in the barn.

 

  Happy cutting.....Cutter