used too much
I'm a cord past where I thought I might be at. Do not like this, it has been excessively cold for here. My cabin isn't ours, I'm just a squatter and sharecropper, this came with the gig. It has crap for insulation, a very not well done 3 inches in the attic (yep, that's all), and the walls have zero, just planks on the outside, some tongue and groove on the inside, which is then covered with some rank 70s looking cheapo paneling.
Old antique rough wood construction used a lot of decent wood, this is heartpine, really stout and tough, but just dead air space that leaks like crazy for the "insulation". If it was mine, I would have long ago torn down the outside planks and insulated it from the outside. No way do I want to tear down the inside paneling and tongue and groove to do it.
anyway, I had a cord and half of "extra" cut and stacked that is "seasoned enough", looks like I will be hitting it by the end of the month. Hopefully that will last until warmer spring weather. Ye aulde lady mostly sits inside during the winter and stokes the stove..a lot of days if it was just me I'd let it go out during the day, but she is gettin a little on in years same as me and real thin and just can't handle the cold very well at all.
I'm trying-shooting for- two years in advance now all the time. I'll just keep cutting and splitting until I get there (and then keep going from there.., thre years in advance, four years..whatever, stacked wood is like money in the bank). Right now it is just too darn muddy to get down to where I cut. It's right at the point it is a toss up, chance it and get stuck, or maybe make it. Stuck tractors suck to get out, so I will just wait. Even if I did make it, don't want to carve huge deep ruts across the pasture. Might just slog down there carrying a full fueled and oiled up saw and cut and let it lay there until it dries up more. As long as it is down and cut, heck, it can "season in place". I've got proly a cord cut up laying around to be picked up and brought back, then two whopper hickory logs to still cut onto chunks, and the remnants of a hugemongous oak I cut down a few years ago. That bad boy still got more than a cord in it, but I was waiting on getting a much bigger saw and larger bar to tackle it. I think it is around 40 inches thick and..hmm..12 feet or so long, maybe more. Proly more, seems I marked off in my head before better than a dozen 16 inch rounds from it to go. I know I can only haul back three rounds at a time from that log, feels the same on the back of the tractor as a big round bale, 3/4 ton, just lift the front up if I don't go slow and have a steep creek to cross so i don't push it. That wood that I burned so far was most excellent. Hard to split but threw some real decent heat. It's all I could do with those chunks to kinda sorta pry bar them up, roll them to the cargo box and flop them in, heavy dudes. Maybe I will noodle them up this next time now that I have a larger saw to use.
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