Two and a half hours, almost the first thing in the morning…
And I have well more than three heaping wheelbarrows’ worth of stove-ready firewood.
After I laboriously got these 5X5 timbers de-nailed and cut to length, I even got to break in my new chopping block!
All done, I increased the contents by roughly half a tier, topping off the third and getting a really good start on a fourth. On normal winter mornings and evenings that’s a few weeks’ worth of warm right there.
Sigh – I still need to repaint the woodshed. And also the solar panel rack. That primer I so miserably applied last year did nothing for me. Does that seem right to you? I never primed an inch of the cabin, and no cabin paint flakes off. I primed the salvaged rack lumber and the brand-new woodshed lumber and it’s coming off in big flakes. I may never buy another gallon of Kilz in my life.
I never had very good luck with Killz either. I don’t think it’s necessary .Just paint it a heavy first coat of outdoor paint,and let it soak in as much as possible,and then touch up the light areas later.
Is there an exterior Kilz? I thought it was strictly interior. Learn something new everyday.
There is exterior Kilz, but it is PRIMER. It needs to be painted. And interior (or original) Kilz is shellac-based, and definitely NOT for exterior use.
Kilz works great if you are trying to cover smoke, or mildew, or other stains, but it is a primer, not a paint.
So, Kilz is a shellac-based primer sealer?
The over coat needs to be sticky compatible no doubt.
I’ve used it on interiors with very good success, but never outside.
With no mention of Laddie the Highly Intolerant, I take it that means he has no concern over noise associated with turning big wood into smaller wood?
Oh, I left him inside. He has already registered his opinion of loud noises, the little cupcake.
Definitely a different climate. Here in the Copper Basin Alaska my sauna wood shed is about as big as yours and I only build sauna fires three times a week. The house shed holds twelve cords and is almost full. I do like your blog for the varied input about life and the world.
Yeah, this definitely isn’t Alaska. A tightly-packed cord will get me through a typical winter with wood to spare. We had a succession of colder ones 8-10 years ago where I’d have burned a lot more wood in the middle of the day, but since then a below-freezing afternoon is quite rare. Plus in ’15 I installed a bigger window on the south side of the cabin and couldn’t believe how much passive solar heating I’d been throwing away. I haven’t lit more than a handful of afternoon fires since then. In winter I almost always light the fire in the morning, maybe half the evenings, and almost never at mid-day.
What do you do in the summer to block the solar gain from that window?
That’s the funny thing – I don’t need to. In summer the angle of the sun is too high most of the day, the overhang stops most of what would otherwise enter, and unless it’s raining the window is open anyway so half the glass doesn’t heat up. In winter the sun shines lower in the south and heats the hell out of the glass from late morning all the way to sundown.
Now that’s what I call Proper Prior Planning!
You did plan it that way, of course, didn’t you?
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Absolutely. I also planned to go the first 3.5 years without it, just so I could properly appreciate the improvement. 🙂