Interesting, I didn’t know these existed.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Sorry but no. If I had to go through all that to post a picture, I wouldn't bother. I'm working off a computer.
We do it all the time.
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jeffkrib,
So how do you guys like splitting Eucalyptus? I found it on the edge of impossible by hand when I was 30. Now I bow my head and look away whenever I pass any rounds of it. Smells too much like burning coal too for my taste but it is hot.
We have 700 species of Eucalyptus so it’s a bit like asking how long is a piece of string bu in general from my experience most are easy to split. The latest load I’ve got is very easy to split, it’s one that tears it self apart as it seasons.
Morning.
My cleaning lady had to postpone so I’m working from home this morning. Supposed to be above freezing later today, the first time in almost two months.
My cleaning lady had to postpone so I’m working from home this morning. Supposed to be above freezing later today, the first time in almost two months.
It was 30* earlier this morning. The wife went out to the mailbox in a T shirt, said it felt like summer! (No wind, and the sun coming out)
We had snow cover for the entire month of January, been a long time since that has happened. It rained a few days ago, then got cold again, and most of the ground is still covered.
We had snow cover for the entire month of January, been a long time since that has happened. It rained a few days ago, then got cold again, and most of the ground is still covered.
Just blew the 2 inches of fluff off from last night. It was just in time as it was already starting to melt from the sun, temps are getting to 32 here today and like 36 tomorrow. Figured I'd get the fluff off the top and let all the hard pack melt. My neighbor and I share a paved main drive and he has to back down into a portion of it that's more on our property(the drive is on his side of the line), and since he recently raised the scrapper bar on his snow blower it melts and then turns to ice. He's more than welcome to use our accessory drive anytime though, which is not nearly as steep and it is crushed asphalt so you almost always have good traction unless there's an ice storm.
Seeing the sun here today is a blessing
, I need more sunlight 
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Seeing the sun here today is a blessing
, I need more sunlight .
How are your energy prices guys? Here in the UK we have a regulator that sets a cap on tariffs. The idea is to protect the lazy or those that know no better and don't search for good deals, the cap is usually much more costly but at least it's a limit of sorts. With the spiralling wholesale gas price lots of the small domestic suppliers have been caught out, and failed. Those customers of these suppliers then get transferred to another supplier by the regulator, and as no deals are any good currently they end up on the cap. That happened to me in October and my tariffs increased about 35%, on top of a 15+% increase that my supplier did just before they went pop. The 6 monthly price cap review just happened and it's about to go up another 54%. So me and others not on a long term deal are looking at about a doubling in price in a 7-8 month period. I'm glad I have large log stacks!
Natural gas?
We have had substantial increases in our gasoline and energy costs since Biden became President.
He restricted access to Federal lands, so production went down but not consumption. We are no longer energy independent.
The rationale is he wants to force us to go green, but the reality is that CO-2 emissions are up 6% because we have started to use more coal to generate electricity. Trump cut emission by 25% w/o any regulation, simply because we produced a lot of clean Natural Gas and all the electric generating plants that were using oil and coal just converted based on the low cost.
IMO, it is foolish to cut production if you don't also cut demand by the same amount. Production should not be cut until an alternative energy is available. We have also been closing our nuclear facilities, which has added to the problem.
He restricted access to Federal lands, so production went down but not consumption. We are no longer energy independent.
The rationale is he wants to force us to go green, but the reality is that CO-2 emissions are up 6% because we have started to use more coal to generate electricity. Trump cut emission by 25% w/o any regulation, simply because we produced a lot of clean Natural Gas and all the electric generating plants that were using oil and coal just converted based on the low cost.
IMO, it is foolish to cut production if you don't also cut demand by the same amount. Production should not be cut until an alternative energy is available. We have also been closing our nuclear facilities, which has added to the problem.
Yes. I'm an oddity.... suburban London, mains gas, but enjoy chainsaws, axes, wood and wood heat.
If Putin goes into Ukraine and biden's promise to destroy the gas pipeline to Germany happens, then the energy regulator said today that we would see prices rise again at the next review in October (no *#&& Sherlock!). It's been a mild winter here.... I'll have enough in the stack for a harsh winter next year and then some. Very glad of it.
Yep, the competition for that scrounge wood could get pretty heavy if that happens, some here.
I'm glad I have next yrs in the woodshed, a hydraulic splitter, 2-3yrs of rounds cut, probably 5 more yrs of black locust logs, and I need to remove another 2-3 cords worth of trees where the piles are and the accessory drive/barn entrance is, then a couple more cord dead standing or on the ground ready to cut, then many cord next door at the neighbors, then a couple at the other neighbors, then wood from any future jobs. I may need another wood stove before I need more wood lol. Very grateful to be in that position as I know not everyone is.
Today I stopped at a golf course they are cutting all the trees at, it will be our new county campground and 4-H rec center. I was checking to see if any of the wood was available there as I have a friend who needs wood for his OWB, nope, it's all getting chipped except the logs that are being taken. I bet the pile of chips was 20 cord of wood already and they had 20-40 trees lined up behind the grinder
.Well I tried to save them, being the round hugger I am
. I do hate seeing them piled up and burned or just chipped like this, but I understand if it's not productive/profitable, then why do it from a companies standpoint.Hope you guys are all having a great day.
There will always be scrounge wood available no matter what happens with energy costs. Most people simply won't work that hard.
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Propane is about $2.35 a gallon up from 1.25 last spring. Propane prices are very volatile. It depends on the time of the year, how dry the corn and beans were at harvest and how cold the winter is. During the polar vortex about 7 years ago(I think) we had a propane shortage and the highest price I was quoted was $6.45 a gallon. Glad I had wood that year!
I agree.
If it is too costly, whether in getting it to the house/ too harvest in general or too difficult to find, then I'll be working harder than most to find a cheaper/more practical alternative
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That's the year I sold my motorcycle to buy propane. Bought a wood stove with my tax return in the spring and never looked back
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