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  • Cutting wood, splitting wood, delivering wood

    Posted on November 14th, 2016 cwmoore No comments

    Ok, I am getting in shape again. Every day has been a early rise and down to the wood pile for the last week. I spend about 3 hours cutting and splitting wood and all this work requires local delivery so we are handeling wood several times per piece. All this work for $90 per cord (4’x4’x8′ stack). I was cutting them to 22″ and was asked to supply them in 16″ length and small split. However, the latest customer wants large pieces and up to 24″ long – this is a no brainer and I love this customer. Cut to 24″ and then quartered, wow, what a deal for me. They want another cord asap. We have kept only one cord for ourselves in the event of an emergency. In our fireplace this would last about three weeks. I do have a small wood stove that would stretch this to about 6 weeks and keep the main basement area warm enough to keep the pipes from freezing. I would guess in an emergency we would drain the running water system so we could heat only a very small area and isolate the rest of the house.

    Today, we were down at the burn pile next to the lake and cleaned up all the bark and sticks we picked up when the dead Ash trees fell. This made a pretty good fire for some hours and I hated to see the BTU’s go up in smoke. The small sticks would be good kindling to start fires.

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