At Home In The Woods

[Obed]

I was fortunate enough to get a new log splitter last fall and it is awesome! I have split well over 20 cord with it, in fact i split 1 1/2 cord this morning with it. Very very useful machine, I have a LOT of wood to split and it sure makes it much easier. Haven't used an axe since. :laughing: Find yourself a good one, it will be well worth every penny. :thumbsup:

Jake,
That's a nice looking splitter you have there. There is a used 27 ton TroyBilt for sale that I've sent the guy an e-mail about. I'd like to go look at it tomorrow if the guy will respond to my e-mail. He didn't have a phone number in his ad. I've decided to get a good unit. If I don't find a used one soon I'll have to bite the bullet and buy a new one.

Obed

 

[Obed]

I should say there WAS a 27 ton TroyBilt log splitter for sale. The seller just e-mailed me that the splitter has been sold. The ad was posted on Craigslist the night before I had to go out of town for 3 days. Tomorrow would have been the first time I could have gone to see the splitter as it was 90 minutes away. Bummer!

 

[Obed]

Jake,
Where did all those logs at your property come from?
Obed

 

[955Lincoln]

Something good to look for in a splitter is cycle time as you will end up wishing it would go faster. The higher ton units are nice because it will split almost everything but in most cases they are overkill and have slower cycle times because of the larger cylinder.

 

[scoutcub]

Obed -

Haven't heard from ya in 10 days.....everything Ok? Find a logsplitter yet?


Frank

 

[Obed]

Obed -

Haven't heard from ya in 10 days.....everything Ok? Find a logsplitter yet?


Frank

Frank,

I've been watching Craigslist for log splitters. Lots of electric ones have come up for sale but very few gas powered. Three 22 - 27 ton splitters came up for sale but they sold very quickly, too quickly for me to get them. The last one was posted yesterday at noon and was sold by 6 pm. I may have to buy a new one.

Yes, everything's going well. I've been grading around the house with my boxblade getting things just the way we want them before the topsoil gets delivered. I have some pictures to post; I've just been a little lazy.

This evening I did a walkthrough with the grading contractor to go over the last phase of the job. He is scheduled to come back September 8 to finish a few fine points and then put down the topsoil. I still have some work I want to do before he continues work on Sept 8.

Obed

 

[Obed]

We finally got furniture! Yay! It's nice that we can now have vistors and have a place for them to sit.

We bought a sofa and matching chair. We already had the love seat. My wife quickly gave up on finding used upholstered furniture on Craigslist so we bought these two pieces new from a local furniture store. It took about 6 weeks from time she ordered it with the color fabric she wanted until it was delivered. After the furniture was delivered, we moved the piano to where you see it in the pictures.

We are still looking on CL for end tables, a coffee table, and a dining room table with chairs. I certainly hope we find these pieces used; the prices on Craigslist make it evident how high the furniture mark-up is for new furniture. People are asking $700 for 4 year old dining room sets for which they paid $2000 new.

What I really want in a DR table is something that comfortably seats 8 people, but would prefer seating for 10 with removable leaves to shrink the size to 6 or 8 chairs normally. I also want a table that is rectangular with 4 almost straight legs; I don't like the pedestal legs because there's no good place for the person on the end to put his feet. We are looking for a dark wood, possibly cherry. Unfortunately, most of the cherry tables have the pedestal type legs that I consider to be impractical. The most common size of tables for sale on CL seat 6 people. We have a hand-me-down DR table that seats 6 so we don't have to get in a hurry. I look on CL everyday to see if something I like shows up. So far, nothing has shown up that both my wife and I really like. In contrast, several of the 6 chair light colored oak table sets show up for sale every week.

 

[EddieWalker]

I was looking at the brand new Huskee log splitters at Tractor Supply today. 27 ton unit with a Honda engine is $1,600. They have those sales all the time, so I figure it will be ten or 20% off sooner or later.

I think that something like a log splitter, that gets abused without any preventative maintenance is something that is better off buying brand new. You will get 20 years use out of it easily if you take care of it, and if you buy used, you never know if it will work the next time you try to start it. No matter how cheap it is compared to new, that's just not something that I want to deal with when I want to split wood.

Good luck,
Eddie

 

[tony Cecil]

You might consider either painting your dining room chairs, and then apply a stencil design...I rather like your chairs....and painted furniture is `hot`.....Your wife is talented in that field, so why not let her do her thing.....Tony

 

[Tororider]

Obed,
I was with Frank in wondering how you had been doing. It really is amazing to me how you can become "invested" in someone's life whom you have never met before, but find that to be the case in certain circumstances on the net. Makes me wonder what will happen when your project is done and this thread comes to a close, what will we all do, . Not that houses are a project that are ever done.

We bought one of the Amish lighter colored oak tables, similar to this...
Amish Oak Dinning Table
only ours has a different style chairs which I prefer. I think I got ours for $400, with the three leaves and four chairs. I then was able to find two matching captains chairs that were $80 for the pair, and I actually even found a matching high chair for $35. I thought I did pretty well for just over $500. With all three leaves in we can (relatively) comfortably fit 10 at our table. Four on each side and then one on the end. If we want to squeeze a couple more we will add two more to the ends, normally kids, and can get twelve. Happy hunting, craigslist is a jungle.