.... my wood supply sufficient to last a decade.
Then my pusher (saw mill) called to say they had a surplus I could have at a good price. So I had to build an extension on my extension.
While the scrapyard still has a pile of corrugated tin at £2 a sheet it would be foolish not to. Plus I think it's worthy of space in the Turbine Hall at the Tate.
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Blimey, you lucky bugger 🙂
{jealous mode} Oh piss off!!!! {jealous mode} 😯
Are you planning for some sort of economic crisis?
That is a thing of beauty.
I see an addiction there.
What are you going to do with your spare time for the next 5 years until it needs restocking?
Your wood collecting bug needs tratement - two teaspoons of Cuprinol twice daily?
Will it be fit for burning in a decade? There is a lot of potential income sitting around there 🙂
I can't wait for Bonfire Night round at your house!
Do you split that all by hand mcmoonter? If so - respect.
holy crap....
Will it be fit for burning in a decade?
We try to rotate our usage from pile to pile. I hope it'll still be usable. What's the worst that can happen if it gets too dry?
Do you split that all by hand mcmoonter? If so - respect.
I used to, then I built a hydraulic log splitter. I cant imagine how I did it all before.
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moonter, your not reight man........... 😆
I suspect that your pusher is very much missing a trick by selling to you at low price - but good for you for getting it. I'm still jealous 🙁
moonter, your not reight man...........
Ton, it probably works out to a couple of days a month chopping. I love working outdoors. It's great for the soul, amd a bonus to have something to show for it.
When mankind has destroyed itself in a nuclear holocaust, the remaining cockroaches will find that woodpile and gape* in awe.
* or whatever cockroaches do when gobsmacked.
It's great for the soul
How true is that, just don't tell the the goverment or they will tax it 😉
* or whatever cockroaches do when gobsmacked.
Mandiblesmacked?
I really hate you.
You need to be careful as you could get rot set in in the middle of the piles as they are quite wide.
Or possibly if they get too dry it wouldn't need much to ignite them and they are very big and quite close together....
You need to be careful as you could get rot set in in the middle of the piles as they are quite wide.
Bear, I stacked some newly windblown Beech among other wood inside this building, it very quicky grew a mould which worried me, prompting the the build of my new outdoor shed. Since it's been stored outside the growth of the fungus almost immediatly stopped. I've deliberatly stacked the middles of the piles a litle more loosely. I built the shed at the windiest spot to promote air flow.
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isn't that a recipe for damp walls?
www.woodchoppersanonymous.com
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likey.
Are you planning for some sort of economic crisis?
There nothing so comforting as knowing your stash of wood, water, baked beans, haribo and homemade zider will see you through the next Labour Government 😉
will see you through [b]to[/b] the next Labour Government
You need to do a deal with roper & hadge to re-home all the monster spiders & bugs that are gonna set up home in there!
more of a problem with wood chip stores, damp chip can start composting, generating heat and then spontaneously combusting!
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"You're going to need a bigger shed"
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GOT WOOD 😀
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Looks like the makings of a potentially successful business to me, using the store to season the logs prior to sale..
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Cranberry, it's more of a self help central heating solution.
I enjoy the process to much creatively to ever see it as a commercial enterprise. I always enjoy seeing how others store their firewood.
Fantastic work, mcmoonter.
Just got in from splitting some logs - very cathartic hobby after getting back from work.
My modest store is growing nicely.
Satisfying and simple.
Obsessive compulsive disorder anyone? 😉
I feel thoroughly inadequate after seeing that...
I feel thoroughly inadequate after seeing that...
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double post. Or should that be doubly inadequate?
My wife says there are 3 trees in our back garden you can help yourself to. The squirrels might not be so pleased though.
Mcmoonter in Lego
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look what i built
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Did you ever get that funky stove mcmoonter? Your stash will last 4 times as long (at least) if you replace open fires with stoves....
Good work hillclimber, be aware woodcutting is addictive.
Did you ever get that funky stove mcmoonter?
Not yet, ironically we are just waiting for the worst of the cold to pass before we go to try and get it. We have a big stove in the main hall which heats a huge chunk of the house. The funky stove is for the sitting room.
[b]Good work hillclimber, be aware woodcutting is addictive.[/b]
I know so is (rudimentary) carpentry! next on my 'to make' list is a kennel for the growing pooch!
Mcmoonter. He has more wood than...
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After a marathon of shifting wood from the shed of eternal dampness, I now have four and a half full bays.
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Tehre must be a self help group / therapy available :-0
amazing....... 😆
Tehre must be a self help group / therapy available :-0
It's in session right now in front of the stove with a steaming mug of tea!
Still loads less than the local place I go to buy firewood from, there's little commercial potential there. All for the best, no pressure to sell 🙂
Following the filling of my flip flops with the free Fife firewood. I had to build an extension to my woodshed. It cannot be extendend any further west because of a big Scots Pine, nor east. So this may be the last installment.
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So this may be the last installment.
I don't believe you. 😀
When you can't build out, build up!
When you can't build out, build up!
My thoughts exactly! How to add another floor to that?
it cannot be extendend any further west because of a big Scots Pine
surely the solution here is obvious? Cut down tree..... extend shed.... put wood from tree in shed
FFS mcmoonter: you're going to be sorely disappointed when your great great great grandchildren convert the house to use Nano-Fission and there are still four sheds worth of wood left unburnt.
So this [b]may[/b] be the last installment.
Addict makes a statement that can easily be rowed back from.
Go on, one more dose, just for old time's sake, then you'll give it all up for good.
Amazing. Always the best threads. I am so envious....
....and I like the subtle Father Ted reference in the original post!
The limiting factor for future shed projects is the availability of cheap, recycled roofing material. My source has all but dried up.
Our consumption has heen greatly reduced since I installed the funky new stove. What we have here will last us for ages, but its tough seeing wood that is destined for landfill going to waste.