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Things are good in southwest Michigan.
Except the big lake is still very high and many local beaches have boarded up the stair access to the beach because the beach area is under water. In several places, the lower steps are simply gone. Saugatuck's Oval Beach does not need/have stairs. The parking area is an oval and beautiful beach sand 150' to the water. Have not been there this year, (city owned beach and we didn't pay for the annual sticker this year) but I hear you can not walk the beach north to the pier without walking in the water, about a quarter mile plus walk, because the water now butts the low dunes and there is a six to eight foot vertical bank. Beach grass roots are exposed like a long beard and are six or eight feet long. Very interesting. We saw some of that last year.
As for firewood, I have been processing again after a very muggy July break from it. Did two cords in July. There is twenty four cord on the ground, or rather on pallets, so ninety six pallets is all, for next year (I work one year ahead to allow for seasoning). So time to play catch up, and the weather is very accommodating now. Also, deliveries have picked up (last years processed wood) with the cooler weather.
I increased prices this spring, and my web site is terribly out dated. I attributed both of those to slow sales this spring/summer for camp fire/fire pit wood. Both calls and orders are picking up.

I cover individual pallets with 6' x 6' tarp covers I made from 40' x 60' tarps. The second and third year of re-use I have scrapped at least one hundred of these due to UV breaking them down. Covering helps with rain/snow of course, and also to keep leaves off which tend to mat or felt together and stay. That traps moisture repeatedly over and over. The firewood is loose, not stacked, similar to large bulk firewood bags. That's why leave are an issue, unlike stacked rows where the leaves dry and blow off.
So I'm looking for a cost effective alternative to covering that will last longer, and not end up in a land fill.
Open to suggestions...
Four pallets per cord for cost factor.
Side note: The SuperSplit is a joy to use!
 
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Yesterday. Just got set up. No chips on the ground yet in the photo. Orange row pac is for junk pieces. I set the diesel and recreational gas cans under the umbrella, leaving only mix gas and bar oil on the Kory wagon.
Good to see a husky there still :).
Those no-spill containers sure are nice.
Just up the beach a little...
Screen Shot 2019-08-23 at 10.44.47 PM.png Screen Shot 2019-08-23 at 10.43.46 PM.png Split a bucket of white oak tonight.
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Sandhill Crane: I have no experience, but you might look into billboard vinyl.
It's great stuff, but it can be hard to work with as it's not real flexible and it gets even worse as time goes on.
It does last better than most store bough tarps, I have a piece that's been around for 10yrs and I still use it to cover the bonfire pit. I bought plastic clips that attach to the edges so I could use rope and gallon water jugs to hold it down on my piles, now days I just throw it over the bonfire pit so it's dry when I want a fire.
 
My oldest son came down this weekend to help me with a little firewood. Yesterday was the work day. I had a bunch of white oak, elm and poplar down and cut up and needed help getting it to my splitting area. When he got the white oak out of the woods he tried splitting it in half but the rounds just laughed at him. I had to drag the splitter out and use it vertically to get the oak rounds down to a manageable size. This is what we hauled out of the woods.
DSC03525.JPG We split a little bit of the poplar until I ran out of steam for the day.
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Loads 1 & 2 for the season. All basswood pulled down because it was leaning over a cabin at my parents place. It will still burn!
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I felled another pine in the area I've been working, I cut,split the better pine and then moved it to the pile. This will be a walking trail and a new spot for plowing the snow this winter.
 

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Loads 1 & 2 for the season. All basswood pulled down because it was leaning over a cabin at my parents place. It will still burn!
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Keep some nicer small pieces as it makes great carving wood.
I've done a few fishing lures out of it.
It's a carvers dream wood.
 
Well i had to break down and buy a splitter , we had a storm come thru and tore thru the neighborhood and since my piles have gotten huge , many more months to come cutting and splitting
 

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I bucked up some dead pine and then split it smaller to burn in the outside fireplace with some other firewood. After splitting the pine I dug up one stump with the backhoe on the 4540.
 

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Well i had to break down and buy a splitter , we had a storm come thru and tore thru the neighborhood and since my piles have gotten huge , many more months to come cutting and splitting
Congrats on the new splitter.
Looks like a nice tarp too.
 
Since we had an all day rain, I made some stuffed shells I promised the wife. I'm thinking I'll need to get some work in so I can work the shells and the Utica Greens off, both were excellent.
 

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How far did you make it before half that wood in the bucket fell out. lol
No splits were harmed in the hauling of them to the woodshed :p.
It's actually only about 100' from the woodshed and it's pretty smooth, but to answer the question not one :).
 

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