Things are good in southwest Michigan.
Except the big lake is still very high and many local beaches have boarded up the stair access to the beach because the beach area is under water. In several places, the lower steps are simply gone. Saugatuck's Oval Beach does not need/have stairs. The parking area is an oval and beautiful beach sand 150' to the water. Have not been there this year, (city owned beach and we didn't pay for the annual sticker this year) but I hear you can not walk the beach north to the pier without walking in the water, about a quarter mile plus walk, because the water now butts the low dunes and there is a six to eight foot vertical bank. Beach grass roots are exposed like a long beard and are six or eight feet long. Very interesting. We saw some of that last year.
As for firewood, I have been processing again after a very muggy July break from it. Did two cords in July. There is twenty four cord on the ground, or rather on pallets, so ninety six pallets is all, for next year (I work one year ahead to allow for seasoning). So time to play catch up, and the weather is very accommodating now. Also, deliveries have picked up (last years processed wood) with the cooler weather.
I increased prices this spring, and my web site is terribly out dated. I attributed both of those to slow sales this spring/summer for camp fire/fire pit wood. Both calls and orders are picking up.
I cover individual pallets with 6' x 6' tarp covers I made from 40' x 60' tarps. The second and third year of re-use I have scrapped at least one hundred of these due to UV breaking them down. Covering helps with rain/snow of course, and also to keep leaves off which tend to mat or felt together and stay. That traps moisture repeatedly over and over. The firewood is loose, not stacked, similar to large bulk firewood bags. That's why leave are an issue, unlike stacked rows where the leaves dry and blow off.
So I'm looking for a cost effective alternative to covering that will last longer, and not end up in a land fill.
Open to suggestions...
Four pallets per cord for cost factor.
Side note: The SuperSplit is a joy to use!
Except the big lake is still very high and many local beaches have boarded up the stair access to the beach because the beach area is under water. In several places, the lower steps are simply gone. Saugatuck's Oval Beach does not need/have stairs. The parking area is an oval and beautiful beach sand 150' to the water. Have not been there this year, (city owned beach and we didn't pay for the annual sticker this year) but I hear you can not walk the beach north to the pier without walking in the water, about a quarter mile plus walk, because the water now butts the low dunes and there is a six to eight foot vertical bank. Beach grass roots are exposed like a long beard and are six or eight feet long. Very interesting. We saw some of that last year.
As for firewood, I have been processing again after a very muggy July break from it. Did two cords in July. There is twenty four cord on the ground, or rather on pallets, so ninety six pallets is all, for next year (I work one year ahead to allow for seasoning). So time to play catch up, and the weather is very accommodating now. Also, deliveries have picked up (last years processed wood) with the cooler weather.
I increased prices this spring, and my web site is terribly out dated. I attributed both of those to slow sales this spring/summer for camp fire/fire pit wood. Both calls and orders are picking up.
I cover individual pallets with 6' x 6' tarp covers I made from 40' x 60' tarps. The second and third year of re-use I have scrapped at least one hundred of these due to UV breaking them down. Covering helps with rain/snow of course, and also to keep leaves off which tend to mat or felt together and stay. That traps moisture repeatedly over and over. The firewood is loose, not stacked, similar to large bulk firewood bags. That's why leave are an issue, unlike stacked rows where the leaves dry and blow off.
So I'm looking for a cost effective alternative to covering that will last longer, and not end up in a land fill.
Open to suggestions...
Four pallets per cord for cost factor.
Side note: The SuperSplit is a joy to use!
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