This will be just an independent sitting bench. When you inlet the legs that deep, they don't need anything else. Will glue with Loctite PL Premium and use a few 3" deck screws.
Then I need to stain the bottom and epoxy the sitting surface.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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This will be just an independent sitting bench. When you inlet the legs that deep, they don't need anything else. Will glue with Loctite PL Premium and use a few 3" deck screws.
Then I need to stain the bottom and epoxy the sitting surface.
That's cool.
Do you put the screws in from the top or an angle them from the bottom.
I'd like a few of those for around the bonfire, id need to put some wheels on them so when you lift a leg you could roll them around, they look heavy.
I've been looking for soothing strong but that's easily movable for raking, mowing, and when I have a large fire so you don't loose your eyebrows
.We went fishing last night and we had a nice ash and cherry cookie fire
.Fake smile
, but she was having fun, we all did 
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Both faking again(they've seen a few of them), caught a few this size and a few smaller, lost one also. I'm sure it would have been bigger than the rest
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If I had your peppermint I'd burn my locustThat's a scrounger's wet dream right there. Disappointing that they didn't split it and load it in your truck as well, though
I have gradually worked my way through the 1.5 cord or so of black locust I picked up in April. Some of the smaller stuff I poked into my bonfire in May to hold up my diesel packets, some smaller stuff I burned in the firepit. The bigger stuff I debarked and split up and have been burning at night. Burning through the day was not good, there was so much ash that the coals would not burn down and I'd have to shovel out the heater every second day. But burning at night was better and given the extra time, the coals would burn down to a level that would work. So it has had a purpose which you can find for most firewood depending on its characteristics.
Here were the locust piles in April. In the pile in the (mostly hidden) far left is a pile of yellow box, peppermint, manna gum and some oak. Peppermint is stacked up in front of the woodshed.
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Here's what I have left of the locust.
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The bark has been good though. I have been keeping that and burning it in the firepit in bits and pieces which has been great. It gives a wonderful crackle which adds to the ambiance. You just need to be upwind because it smells like burning vomit.
I burned the peppermint, oak and manna gum from the far pile and stacked the yellow box in the near bay of the woodshed. So I have about 4 cord of heavier-than-water firewood in that bay now.
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I need to get out and scrounge some more. I can feel my manhood shrinking with all this time away from the saws.
.Yours looks just like ours in those pictures, or is it ours that looks like yours
.When I get overcoaling with locust I will pull all the coals to the front of the stove and put a split on top east-west, open the air all the way and it will go under the wood and it burns the coals down pretty quick while putting out great heat still. Sometimes I have to repeat this process when I get a lot of coals, obviously it's something you have to do while you're there. You also have to have some shorter pieces to fit side to side(E-W orientation), or you can also put some odds in there and achieve the same thing it's just not as efficient.
Why haven't you been running the saws, too cold?
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Stopped at the new scrounge spot after work. Not a full load but I was sweating enough by 930 that I could ring it from my shirt so decided to call it till later.
Pile just keeps growing.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
While you've got epoxy mixed maybe a coat on the end grain of the feet ?
I think I handle coaling different than most. To me, coals are a good thing. If I need the heat, I just keep chunking wood on top of the coals. The stove get full of coals, I just stop throwing on wood and the coals will burn down. A stove full of hot coals is hotter than a stove full of burning wood.
I cheated on this one and installed some 5/4 treated decking feet, otherwise I would do that. Was going to use Locust instead of treated, but would be a lot more work getting it ready.
I want to get the epoxy on while both the temp and rain are still up! Tough when you work out side!
I use 3" deck screws, across and angled down. They are just to keep things in place till the Loctite PL Premium dries. That stuff is stronger than wood, and will hold it just fine, but it expands, so the screws lock things in place till the stuff dries.
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Put down a pecker holed, rotted maple for my neighbor. Ended up getting more good wood than I thought. It came down nice, and the top exploded on impact, so I only had my road blocked for about a minute
Found some metal in a few spots too
Found some metal in a few spots too
Great job.Put down a pecker holed, rotted maple for my neighbor. Ended up getting more good wood than I thought. It came down nice, and the top exploded on impact, so I only had my road blocked for about a minute
Found some metal in a few spots too
I found some copper wire in a cookie we burned last night, it was pretty heavy gauge single strand.
Coals will only put out about 350 when burning with the air intake closed(epa stove so it's always open at least a little), with a piece of wood on top it will run closer to 450 but will put out a lot of heat on the front of the unit, a full load of wood with the secondaries burning it will run at 400-500 for 4-5hrs no problem. Coals won't heat the house when it's cold, different situation means you get to handle them different. When I have the pellet stove going I'll let them burn down a bit further than when it's not.
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Getting the saws ready for another day. Going to get a load for me and one for the guy at work when he gets here. Just trying to get it moved at this point I'm running out of room at my place.
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Got some oak today. They wanted this one gone ASAP cause it was laying right down the middle of the area they opened up. 
Hickory and oak for me and all hickory for Eric. Sending the hickory with him ensures a steady supply of deer jerky and bologna for me later this year 
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Bet the wind won't blow that bench away! Looks really good!
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Of course if you cut the air off it wont burn as hot. I have checked the outside temps of my stoves surface and had over 700F. even the concrete floor was to hot for bare feet. Not an ideal situation, but sometimes things happen.
Put up a nice load of wood this evening for my fire pit customer. Only have 1 1/3 cord left to deliver.
It was cooler today, I enjoy splitting when it’s not so damn hot.
It was cooler today, I enjoy splitting when it’s not so damn hot.
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Went back this afternoon for the rest of the oak from this morning. Bit warm to be splitting but I didn't feel like carrying rounds that far. 
Made a decent load. There's a couple hickory rounds on the bottom but mostly oak.
OMG. I just found some of that rare, highly valuable Spruce on CL: https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/grd/d/camby-norway-spruce-logs/6961086063.html
Darn. Too far away or I would offer $400. They say the price is negotiable.
