So this morning I got this much wood cut into stove lengths. Added to what I did day before yesterday, total for the week is probably in the neighborhood of 3/4 trailerload. Not to goal, but screw it. The nice thing about my situation is that my employer can’t fire me.
I’ve waited to bring any wood to Landlady’s place until she decided how she wanted to store it. For the present, her storage has been reduced to a Sterilite tub on the porch. So I filled that…
…and then I came home and stacked the rest in the woodshed. And here’s where we stand on the “fill the woodshed” project…
So we’ll get there a little slower than planned.
Thing about stacking cut-up pallets: There’s a lot more thin wood than with scrap lumber, so numerically it takes a lot more billets to make a whole tier. You can see that by looking at the full tier (scrap lumber) behind the new partial one (cut-up pallets) and you see I’m gonna have to cut up a lot of pallets to complete a 4X6 tier. So I’m not too worried about it.
Being able to prioritize things without having someone looking over your shoulder is one of the nice things about no longer being part of the rat race.
One thing that just struck me after reading this post is that I have a bucket full of fall/winter preps to get done and thanks to the weather time’s not on my side. Oh well time to get off my old fat butt I guess.
I think that you should give yourself a stern talking-to Joel. (No, not really.)
Actually, Joel’s new woodshed probably holds enough fuel for two average winters, it’s already well over half full, and there is nothing to stop him from cutting wood even in the winter months.
Our favorite hermit apparently still has some residual “thermal anxiety” left over from his shivery early Gulch winters. 😉
I think Joel will be okay! .