At Home In The Woods

[BoFuller]

A year ago we tried to get people to look at our logs and nobody was interested. We couldn't give them away. The logs are mostly white and red oak with some maple and poplar. The logs are 20' long with the median diameter = 18".

We havent built a fire since the fireplace guy left. Outside temps are in the low to mid 90s.

Covering the roots of the tree with dirt will kill the tree.

Obed

Boy I'd love to have those logs dumped off at my place. :thumbsup:

 

[Obed]

Boy I'd love to have those logs dumped off at my place. :thumbsup:

Bo,
That's the problem. Years ago my dad told me that once when his garden was producing more than we needed, he offered several of our neighbors free vegetables if they would just come and pick them. He got no takers. However, they all were willing to accept free vegetables that we picked and delivered to them.
Obed

 

[weldingisfun]

Bo,
That's the problem. Years ago my dad told me that once when his garden was producing more than we needed, he offered several of our neighbors free vegetables if they would just come and pick them. He got no takers. However, they all were willing to accept free vegetables that we picked and delivered to them.
Obed

:thumbsup: Got to agree with that. :laughing:

 

[srossman]

Bo,
That's the problem. Years ago my dad told me that once when his garden was producing more than we needed, he offered several of our neighbors free vegetables if they would just come and pick them. He got no takers. However, they all were willing to accept free vegetables that we picked and delivered to them.
Obed

You could always place an add on craigs list for free firewood. Just state you cut and haul.

 

[Obed]

Friday and Saturday after work I installed a drain line for the basement. The grading contractor dug the trench with his excavator. The first step was to put to piping pieces together to make sure I had the right connectors to make all the angles. I got to use my saw-zaw to cut the pipes. The saw-zaw is a toy I was able to talk my wife into letting me buy while we were building the house. It's much easier cutting the PVC pipes with the saw-zaw than with the hacksaw the way I used to do it.

Like normal I had extra rocks. I dumped the rocks near the culvert where I will use them as rip rap after our grading job is finished. I had to backfill much of the trench by hand to keep the rocks away from the pipe. As such, backfilling the trench took a lot longer than I expected. There was a pile of dirt below the end of the pipe at the outlet end. I couldn't get to that pile of dirt with my tractor because of the steepness. So I spent about 45 minutes throwing dirt with my hand shovel up the hill into the trench.

I stubbed out the end of the pipe at the wall of the house. The pipe does not connect to anything yet. I plan to hook the pipe to our slop sink in the basement. I will need to drill a hole through the brick above grade to run the pipe through the wall higher than the height of our basement concrete slab. If I had it to do over, I would have put a French drain at the outlet end of the pipe to keep the water from running directly onto the ground. That would be a little more environmentally friendly. However, I didn't think about it until someone I talked to on Sunday mentioned using a French drain.

 

[dstig1]

If you have a 10 or 12" chop saw, put a cheap steel blade on it (moderately fine tooth is better). Far better cuts on PVC. Clean and square, and all you need to clean up is the fuzz left by the saw cut.

 

[Tororider]

If you have a 10 or 12" chop saw, put a cheap steel blade on it (moderately fine tooth is better). Far better cuts on PVC. Clean and square, and all you need to clean up is the fuzz left by the saw cut.

And that comes off really easy with a three sided file. Just run it around the inside once and outside once and you are clean and good to go. I was thinking the chop saw would be easier too, but agree a sawzall is better than a hand held hacksaw.

 

[BoFuller]

Bo,
That's the problem. Years ago my dad told me that once when his garden was producing more than we needed, he offered several of our neighbors free vegetables if they would just come and pick them. He got no takers. However, they all were willing to accept free vegetables that we picked and delivered to them.
Obed

Well if it was within 100 miles I'd come and get them, but since it is probably over 1500 miles it's obviously not cost effective.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

If you have a 10 or 12" chop saw, put a cheap steel blade on it (moderately fine tooth is better). Far better cuts on PVC. Clean and square, and all you need to clean up is the fuzz left by the saw cut.

I use regular wood blade on my compound miter saw to cut pvc, makes nice clean cuts.

 

[CurlyDave]

I use regular wood blade on my compound miter saw to cut pvc, makes nice clean cuts.

Total agreement. I cut all plastic pipe on a 10" or 12" miter saw. Beautiful cuts. Then I de-burr the inside of the cut with one of the special de-burr tools that looks like a swiveling knife, and sand the outside with ~ 120 grit sandpaper.