Firewood, Interrupted
Nov. 14th, 2024 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeToday, we planned on finally unloading the pallet of firewood from the utility trailer into the wood box.
Lisa and I moved the small wood box back onto the porch and this afternoon Lisa helped me move the Pres-to-Logs you see here from the large box to this small one, which gives us the freedom to not have to open the large box to bring logs into the house. You can see the lid behind the box. We cover the logs with plastic and pull the lid in place. This keeps rain and snow off of the logs. As Pres-to-Logs are simply pressed sawdust, you have to keep them dry or else they will dissolve.
There is a cardboard box in the living room that holds about enough logs for two days' worth of consumption. Weather permitting, I refill it every day.
After she helped move logs up to the porch, Lisa got ready to climb into the utility trailer, unwrap the pallet, and start handing the logs over to me. I then transfer them, four logs at a time, into the large wood box at right.
There is still a bit more than a week's worth of logs (at our current consumption rate) in the wood box. We finished last season with an 2/3-full box, so it has not been urgent to get more wood into it.
A pallet of 390 logs fills the box about 3/4 full. We have almost always pulled the trailer up to the fence like this, even before we bought the East Lot. Now we don't have to worry about the owner of the lot refusing us access.
Just before Lisa started the open the plastic that covers the pallet of logs, the 7% chance of rain that was in the forecast turned into a 100% chance. It did not rain that heavily, but because we didn't want our firewood turning into a pile of soggy sawdust, we postponed the unloading, possibly until tomorrow or this weekend when there is less chance of rain.
Lisa and I moved the small wood box back onto the porch and this afternoon Lisa helped me move the Pres-to-Logs you see here from the large box to this small one, which gives us the freedom to not have to open the large box to bring logs into the house. You can see the lid behind the box. We cover the logs with plastic and pull the lid in place. This keeps rain and snow off of the logs. As Pres-to-Logs are simply pressed sawdust, you have to keep them dry or else they will dissolve.
There is a cardboard box in the living room that holds about enough logs for two days' worth of consumption. Weather permitting, I refill it every day.
After she helped move logs up to the porch, Lisa got ready to climb into the utility trailer, unwrap the pallet, and start handing the logs over to me. I then transfer them, four logs at a time, into the large wood box at right.
There is still a bit more than a week's worth of logs (at our current consumption rate) in the wood box. We finished last season with an 2/3-full box, so it has not been urgent to get more wood into it.
A pallet of 390 logs fills the box about 3/4 full. We have almost always pulled the trailer up to the fence like this, even before we bought the East Lot. Now we don't have to worry about the owner of the lot refusing us access.
Just before Lisa started the open the plastic that covers the pallet of logs, the 7% chance of rain that was in the forecast turned into a 100% chance. It did not rain that heavily, but because we didn't want our firewood turning into a pile of soggy sawdust, we postponed the unloading, possibly until tomorrow or this weekend when there is less chance of rain.
