Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[Ronaldo]

You guys still do that over there? Jeepers, get with the times you blokes. Just not necessary, the days of braces or being NWB for 6 weeks post-op went out with the last millennium. ACL rehab is not that difficult - providing you have a competent surgeon and PT.

All the best with the op, @Multifaceted .

Not sure of any other method. Had sugery, went out w/ brace on and started physical therapy after 2 days. Wore that brace for quite some time.....

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[Cowboy254]

Not sure of any other method. Had sugery, went out w/ brace on and started physical therapy after 2 days. Wore that brace for quite some time.....Sent from my SM-S320VL using Tapatalk

Things are different over here. And I say that as a physiotherapist who has spent the last 15 years in the ski fields treating skiers knees, both surgical and non-surgical. Post-op patients will be on crutches until they have sufficient quads control to walk then stop using crutches to get around, which is not long. No brace at all under normal circumstances.

 

[woodchuckcanuck]

Our kiln stick stacking jig. Local wood fired pottery kiln owner uses all our scraps of high resin bits like red pine off the sawmill. Everything cut down to 1x1 inch or smaller.

 

[svk]

Things are different over here. And I say that as a physiotherapist who has spent the last 15 years in the ski fields treating skiers knees, both surgical and non-surgical. Post-op patients will be on crutches until they have sufficient quads control to walk then stop using crutches to get around, which is not long. No brace at all under normal circumstances.

Interesting.

Wonder if the manufacturers of braces have a little pull with insurance companies and orthopedic specialists in the US market? That’s how a lot of ******** goes down over here.

My grandfather is a retired pharmacist and says the pharmaceutical industry is more crooked now than most politicians.

 

[Multifaceted]

Yeah, those braces after an ACL surgery are extremely limiting. Good luck.

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Thanks, brother - I will discuss my procedural options when I meet with the actual surgeon on the 30th. The orthopedist sent me home with a full brace this past Wed, but I have full range of motion. The past 3 or so weeks I've been using nothing, except a small brace for when I'm doing manual labor. My guess is that post surgery I'll use the same full brace but with the flex/ext locked out to zero-range of motion. I have a 40 mile commute one-way to work, and I drive a manual transmission, so I am going to have to swap vehicles with my wife, who just got a new car... and she HATES manual trannys... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You guys still do that over there? Jeepers, get with the times you blokes. Just not necessary, the days of braces or being NWB for 6 weeks post-op went out with the last millennium. ACL rehab is not that difficult - providing you have a competent surgeon and PT.

All the best with the op, @Multifaceted .

I have no idea, the only other person I know who has had the injury (albeit was a partial tear, unlike mine which is completely separated) - had his surgery 15 years ago, so I'm sure a lot has changed since then. A little googling suggests the same 6-9 month recovery spiel. I can't imagine that in this day and age any developed country would have similar procedures, but truthfully, I do not know. We'll see, as they say "hope for the best, but prepare for the worst".

Anyway, thanks, mate! - Just trying to stay positive. A piss poor attitude isn't going to make it any better

 

[Cowboy254]

Interesting.

Wonder if the manufacturers of braces have a little pull with insurance companies and orthopedic specialists in the US market? That’s how a lot of ******** goes down over here.

My grandfather is a retired pharmacist and says the pharmaceutical industry is more crooked now than most politicians.

I suspect you're close to the mark. Talking with some of my US colleagues at a conference years ago, they told me that the remuneration process for physios over there was effed up. They were paid per interventions provided - eg. hotpack = $50, mobilisation = $50, exercise prescription = $50 etc. In other words, it was in the physio's interest to do as many different things as possible to rack up the bill rather than do what is actually in the patient's best interests. That sort of arrangement will inevitably lead to poor outcomes and overservicing.

 

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I suspect you're close to the mark. Talking with some of my US colleagues at a conference years ago, they told me that the remuneration process for physios over there was effed up. They were paid per interventions provided - eg. hotpack = $50, mobilisation = $50, exercise prescription = $50 etc. In other words, it was in the physio's interest to do as many different things as possible to rack up the bill rather than do what is actually in the patient's best interests. That sort of arrangement will inevitably lead to poor outcomes and overservicing.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

 

[Cowboy254]

Thanks, brother - I will discuss my procedural options when I meet with the actual surgeon on the 30th. The orthopedist sent me home with a full brace this past Wed, but I have full range of motion. The past 3 or so weeks I've been using nothing, except a small brace for when I'm doing manual labor. My guess is that post surgery I'll use the same full brace but with the flex/ext locked out to zero-range of motion. I have a 40 mile commute one-way to work, and I drive a manual transmission, so I am going to have to swap vehicles with my wife, who just got a new car... and she HATES manual trannys... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯



I have no idea, the only other person I know who has had the injury (albeit was a partial tear, unlike mine which is completely separated) - had his surgery 15 years ago, so I'm sure a lot has changed since then. A little googling suggests the same 6-9 month recovery spiel. I can't imagine that in this day and age any developed country would have similar procedures, but truthfully, I do not know. We'll see, as they say "hope for the best, but prepare for the worst".

Anyway, thanks, mate! - Just trying to stay positive. A piss poor attitude isn't going to make it any better

Yes, 9 months is the typical time to full recovery. BUT....

Most people are back to normal 'everyday' function in 6-8 weeks - ie. can walk normally, go up and down stairs normally, generally full range of movement and negligible pain. Technically, you could swing an axe after 6-8 weeks, but I wouldn't recommend it, not because there's a problem with the action per se, but because of the 'what if' factor. What if you step on a split you forgot about with the newly reco'd knee and it goes sideways with a popping sound? Or you slip on a soft spot or snow and down you go? Try explaining that to your surgeon.

3-4 months, you are working up to doing anything in a straight line, including running. So, what's the 9 month thing all about? Well, your new ligament dies in the first three months and between 3-6 months is when it can be compromised. This is because when it is harvested from your semimembranosis (hamstring tendon - technically from the pes anserinus), its blood supply is disrupted. It takes time for new blood vessels to infiltrate into your new ligament once reconstructed which allow it to recover from stress. So movements that may stress the ligament - typically twisting movements at speed - are best left until the ligament is vascularised again and that means 6+ months before starting that and 9 months before re-entering competition. So, skiing, hockey, football = 9 months. If it was my knee, I'd be swinging an axe happily but carefully at 3 months.

I'm going to go and move some stuff around in my woodshed and take a picture now so this doesn't become a complete thread derail.

 

[Multifaceted]

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Voltaire...

Yes, 9 months is the typical time to full recovery. BUT....

Most people are back to normal 'everyday' function in 6-8 weeks - ie. can walk normally, go up and down stairs normally, generally full range of movement and negligible pain. Technically, you could swing an axe after 6-8 weeks, but I wouldn't recommend it, not because there's a problem with the action per se, but because of the 'what if' factor. What if you step on a split you forgot about with the newly reco'd knee and it goes sideways with a popping sound? Or you slip on a soft spot or snow and down you go? Try explaining that to your surgeon.

3-4 months, you are working up to doing anything in a straight line, including running. So, what's the 9 month thing all about? Well, your new ligament dies in the first three months and between 3-6 months is when it can be compromised. This is because when it is harvested from your semimembranosis (hamstring tendon - technically from the pes anserinus), its blood supply is disrupted. It takes time for new blood vessels to infiltrate into your new ligament once reconstructed which allow it to recover from stress. So movements that may stress the ligament - typically twisting movements at speed - are best left until the ligament is vascularised again and that means 6+ months before starting that and 9 months before re-entering competition. So, skiing, hockey, football = 9 months. If it was my knee, I'd be swinging an axe happily but carefully at 3 months.

I'm going to go and move some stuff around in my woodshed and take a picture now so this doesn't become a complete thread derail.

Thanks for the info, that doesn't sound as bad as previous thought. I wanted to take a photo of my woodlot earlier but right as I was about to walk outside it was already raining and soon started dumping water...

 

[Cowboy254]

After a minor thread derail, it's time to get back on track. Not a great day here today, showery and a bit windy, temp about 40°F. Snowing over there.



I've been working my way along the side of the left hand bay this winter to where I can access the back two rows.



Move this stuff at the back and then I can start stacking future years wood in the back.


Ta-da!



Phew! I think I've earned a beer .

 

[Ronaldo]

temp about 40°F.

40 degrees sounds pretty good about now!

 

[Multifaceted]

40°F sounds like a pleasant day to me as well.

Here are my stacks thus far, not much different than earlier in the spring.

Here is what was going to be a full rick of axe-cut wood for the 2018 ACWC, planned to go hard in August to fill it up before the Sept. 1 deadline, but my ACL injury in late July put a stop to that in a jiffy.

And here is a pile of logs and rounds that need to be split, I have even more larger ones with a rotted center in my lower lot that I need to salvage the good wood from the edges.

Mostly Ash and Cherry split in the round holzhausen stacks, with Red Oak and Hickory in the straight stacks. Unsplit pile is a mix of cherry, red oak, chestnut oak, black locust, ash, and maple.

 

[Cowboy254]

40°F sounds like a pleasant day to me as well.

Here are my stacks thus far, not much different than earlier in the spring.

Here is what was going to be a full rick of axe-cut wood for the 2018 ACWC, planned to go hard in August to fill it up before the Sept. 1 deadline, but my ACL injury in late July put a stop to that in a jiffy.

And here is a pile of logs and rounds that need to be split, I have even more larger ones with a rotted center in my lower lot that I need to salvage the good wood from the edges.

Mostly Ash and Cherry split in the round holzhausen stacks, with Red Oak and Hickory in the straight stacks. Unsplit pile is a mix of cherry, red oak, chestnut oak, black locust, ash, and maple.

I must say, you win the interwebs for the prettiest stacks. I admit to some stack envy .

 

[Multifaceted]

I must say, you win the interwebs for the prettiest stacks. I admit to some stack envy .

Many thanks! This is the first time I've used holzhausen for seasoning, before I used tjem as a way to store seasoned wood that I can't fit in dry storage, pretty easy to throw a tarp over them during the winter, and they are very easy to construct. Curious to see how the average dryness will be comelate September.

 

[panolo]

Did a little work the last few days. Oak and sugar maple from some super huge rounds.
The 2 smallest rounds are left. Also a pile I started before it got a million degrees a few months ago. Also made a pile of hackberry, elm, and box elder. Can't see the backside but it is about 2 cords. Amazed at how the SS does with elm and boxelder. Only had to go full throttle 2-3 times on some knotty elm. Lost my graphics about two cords in. Bought her in the winter and they never really were on there well when I received it.

 

[dancan]

Glad to see you keep cold beverages close to where you work outdoors

 

[panolo]

Used to be 3 buttons of beer and 2 buttons of pop for the kids. Took a dump and wasn't worth fixing. Kids are old enough now to grab the beers and fend for themselves on the soda.

 

[CaseyForrest]

Haven't touched a piece of wood since we loaded the stove for the end of the 2018 heating season.

Yesterday and today we got the wood moved around in the lean too and got rid of the pallets in favor of blocks and landscape timbers.

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[briantutt]

I like the blocks and timbers idea. Pallets are ankle twisters once empty.

Haven't touched a piece of wood since we loaded the stove for the end of the 2018 heating season.

Yesterday and today we got the wood moved around in the lean too and got rid of the pallets in favor of blocks and landscape timbers.

sent from a field

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[CaseyForrest]

I like the blocks and timbers idea. Pallets are ankle twisters once empty.

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Yep, that's why they went away. Should be easier to stow the racks as the wood gets used as well.