Remember when the firewood fairy barfed a load of firewood on my porch in January? Well, it was still pretty much all there . . just as she left it . . on Saturday.
Firewood
Vince has been so busy with the garden and irrigation lines but we’ve had a snake, lots of mice, no telling how many spiders and scorpions, on the porch and it was time for the firewood to go so I grabbed the RTV keys, some gloves and began moving it. As soon as Vince saw me, thankfully he came and helped. Mostly it was small pieces but there were a few pieces I would have struggled with and I had planned to leave those for Vince to do when he had time.
Firewood
We ended up with 2 full loads of firewood that had to be moved. When there’s a heavy load, that’s when I LOVE the dumping back end on the RTV.
Firewood
We have probably three piles this size and that amount of wood will likely get us through next winter without having to cut or split more. I guess it’s the same way so many places, but we never know how much we’ll need. We mostly heat with wood and winter before this past one, we never built one fire. This past winter, we used quite a bit of wood. There’s plenty more out in the woods from when the fence builder cleared the fence lines.
Clean Porch
The porch needs to be blown off with the leaf blower but for now, it’s been swept, the camp stove moved over where I will do my canning . . soon I hope! I am happy to have that pile of wood gone.
Sherrill says
I ordered a log rack and IT’S still sitting on my porch in the box! Last year the guys stacked the cord of wood on pieces of wood on the ground but don’t think the teenagers did the best job. So this year (if I get the thing together), they’ll have an actually rack to stack the wood on. Was so glad I ordered a full cord as it was nearly gone!!
JudyL says
We have a metal pipe type rack but it isn’t very big and only holds probably less than 1/3 of a cord so we usually leave the wood stacked out behind the coop and just keep enough on the rack under the porch so we’ll have plenty of dry wood but on that day, a big storm was predicted so we wanted to be sure we had enough for several days so it all got dumped!