At Home In The Woods

[Obed]

No, I haven't yet gone up on the roof. Obed

 

[Obed]

PAGUY,
Packing the bearings is a good idea. I'll tell my wife that you think she should paint the trailer.

Obed

PAGUY, my wife said to ask you what color of paint you want her to use.
Obed

 

[brin]

No, I haven't yet gone up on the roof. Obed

Obed....I have gutter guards but on the back side of our house there was a gap and some pine straw got in...so I was going to go up on the roof to clean that part of the gutters...30 ft. ....yes, 30 ft...I got to thinking about the what if's.....You know...what if I were to fall...then I thought about the bones that would break and the pain if I lived...Then I thought about the time in ICU...the costs, the rehab and time away from work and family and the pain I most certainly would have to live with the rest of my life from such a fall and resulting injury...I tallied it all up and opted to hire a younger fella and for $50 it was done in about 30 minutes....I am fine ...I am just sayin'

 

[PAGUY]

PAGUY, my wife said to ask you what color of paint you want her to use.
Obed
Tell her the black will be okay and if she wants to get fancy white stripping would look real nice. She then could sign it as an authentic Obed's wife original.

 

[Obed]

PAGUY, my wife said to ask you what color of paint you want her to use.
Obed
Tell her the black will be okay and if she wants to get fancy white stripping would look real nice. She then could sign it as an authentic Obed's wife original.

My wife suggested bright pink!

 

[PAGUY]

Obed said - My wife suggested bright pink!

Tell her that is okay as long as she makes you a florescent green coveralls to wear when you are riding on the tractor with the trailer attached. They can also be worn when you are using the extension ladder. Safety first you know.

 

[clemsonfor]

clemsonfo,
What is the size of your trailer bed? Also, what lengths are the logs in the trailer? How did you decide on cutting them that length?
Obed

Trailer is a 4x8ft bed. There is a piece of plywood on the floor ontop of the mesh.

As for the sizes they are mostly 4 ft or so pieces, some shorter. I cut in the woods so anything that is smaller diameter up to say 8-10s i will cut in longer lengths to aid carring it to the trailer. I then cut it up in the yard at home. As for the length the log diameter dictates that> Meaning if its 10" oak it may be only 2 fire wood sticks long but if its 3"diameter it may be 4-6ft in length. I usually go 2-3 sticks on larger logs and 4-5 on smaller ones. I will take the saw and put tiny cuts on the wood to mark my pieces then whack it off. DOes that make sense? I dont just randomly wack them off with the saw. I take the saw like i said and make a small cut in the log as if i was gonna make individual sticks but i just dont cut through the log.

 

[clemsonfor]

Last night my wife took moisture meter readings of the wood we have been burning. The hickory and poplar (I guess it's poplar) read 20%. A piece of pine read 30% toward the outside (bark side) of the log and 20% on the side opposite the bark side. The outside of the pine log was very wet when I pulled it off the pile so I'm not surprised that the outside of the piece of firewood had a higher moisture content than the opposite side.

I believe 20% is good seasoned wood. 30% I think could stand to be a little drier. These firewood pieces came from the 20 ft long logs that have been sitting on our log pile for about 2 years. I'm guessing that I cut up, split, and stacked these pieces 2 months ago. Apparently wood can season without being cut up and split.

For MM readings you need to make a fresh split and measure the inside of the piece you just split. The reason for this is that the outside if it gets wet soaks it up and then outside of the splits in the pile have dried out, so they will measure lower than actually inside.

20% is really good for moisture content. 15% is optimal, even 25% is a good reading.

 

[clemsonfor]

Obed

Over the last twenty plus years, we`v just burned wook in a regular fireplace---although a really large one---I`v always just started the fire, and then gotten a nice sized one going, and, once hot enough, just kept it that way..

About three years ago I put a cap on the flu, that was like a `prairie wagon`....when doing so, the flu looked to me to be relatively clean, so I`v never had it cleaned....Your flu might need to breathe a bit more, as it looked to me to be pretty restricted with the little vents etc.....Whatever be careful up there, as it may be a bit harder to work than you think..

I think a regular old rotary walk behind will work fine, just take your time, and don`t expect stuff to work like t v .....I just hand turn mine, and it takes me a week...and each year it is just as hard as the previous year Tony

Open fireplaces dont creosote up like stoves, fireplaces run higher stack temps as almost ALL the heat goes up the chimney. A stove takes the heat outta the stack and puts it in teh home, his FP is somewhat a hybrid between an insert and an open fireplace. Without a cap you get water in teh flue which washes it down but also creates and acidic mix thats not good for brick and clay flue tile joints.

 

[tony Cecil]

Thanks Clemson---That make alot of sense .This fireplace is a monster, and if by chance the chimney caught fire , it is encased in stone, about a foot all around the flues....I did notice about three inches of the flue on the inside was eaten away, and I thought that was from freezing and thawing...There is some sort of spray, and tablets I use to spray in the hot fire and apparently the smoke from it catches the soot on fire...You heard of that? Tony