Wood Butchering

[Netpackrat]

If I never had to look at another pallet in my life, it would be just fine with me. I particularly dislike the style that Chris is working with there. They tend to be a bit heavier than normal pallets, though they are good and sturdy.

[Highspeed]

Compared to my woodworking efforts that isn't butchering, it's post-graduate level advanced quantum carpentry.

Give me a piece of wood and I'll usually damage it, the tool I'm attempting to use on it and myself. I once suffered a black eye while trying to inlet a stock

Great piece of practical design though, we can get free pallets and only have room for 50% of our winter wood under the porch -I might have a go at something similar ( I'll wait till I'm off the anti-coagulants though, because I will probably cut off at least one of my fingers in the process )

[Weetabix]

( I'll wait till I'm off the anti-coagulants though, because I will probably cut off at least one of my fingers in the process )

I just had a vision of the Black Knight Highspeed with a flesh wound.

[Aglifter]

Why not a holzhaus?

I wouldn't store too much wood directly near the house, HS - different in N ID, where, presumably, it just stays too cold for bugs all winter long.

[Aglifter]

If I lived in a cold climate, and I might do it anyway, I would look at one of those wood gas boilers.

[blackeagle603]

The mercury has finally started to dip here. 50's last night. Night time temps will be in the low/mid 30's in a few weeks.
It's about time to get organized for our ~4 month woodstove heating season.

I have a small wood rack right at the door nearest the stove that holds a cord end face (4'x4'x16"). I like the bench top idea for a kindling box.
That goes on the honey-do short list right now.

I need to organize my outside kindling better than just the 5 gal bucket I use -- that always seems to migrate out into the walkway.
That rack top looks like just the ticket. I like to cut a huge pile of kindling at one time and forget it for a week or two. Then I feed from that pile into a smaller
indoor kindling stash. I found an old
copper boiler to use for inside kindling that suits the decor and wife's sensibilities nicely.

I had my firewood stacked on pallets for years but finally got my woodpile shed roof done in time for last year's wet season.
It's drained/sheltered well enough now that I just stack right on the gravel base.

[308Mike]

At least it looks like you got almost ALL of it done before the really HEAVY snow hits. If I lived nearby, I'd be over there helping you, so we could get it done as well as other projects before the weather gets too bad so we could get most of them FINISHED before then. As it is, it looks like I'm going to be pulling "SLAVE LABOR" for a friend in AZ for a week or so.

This is so we can get some of his projects done before it gets cold (and I understand COLD is relative, but for a SoCal NATIVE, cold is relative to SoCal temps), the ground too hard, and the days too short. It's amazing just how much work you can get done when someone likes to work, and hasn't been working in a while!! Of course, depending on the temps, a good supply of coffee might also be needed (ESPECIALLY with my newly-shaved-head 'cause my mom's going through chemo from Breast Cancer, and has lost all her hair, so I told her she wasn't going to be the ONLY one of the family in public with a bald head). After all, hair grows back, breasts do NOT, neither do lungs or thyroids (which she's already suffered the removal of some parts).

After all, my mom is the MAIN reason we haven't left this damned state already (besides having a TON of shit to get rid of). So, just call me "Chrome Dome" for the time being, that's fine with me! Besides, hair grows back!