Work Done 2025

[vatmark]

My work done today was to clean up my stove. We are done burning for the season. Going to be 50's and 60's with a few days in the 70's this week. Next up is to attempt to put in a new door gasket.

 

[stoveliker]

I've been splitting that oak here and there. Given that I'm doing it by hand, I'm taking it easy.

Problem is that I have a hard time getting the rounds on the chopping block. I thought I lost strength (with my loss of weight).

Turns out green red oak is 65 lbs per cubic foot.
At 32" round, 18" thick, one round is 550 lbs ..
No wonder it's tough to get them on...

 

[GG Woody]

I've been splitting that oak here and there. Given that I'm doing it by hand, I'm taking it easy.

Problem is that I have a hard time getting the rounds on the chopping block. I thought I lost strength (with my loss of weight).

Turns out green red oak is 65 lbs per cubic foot.
At 32" round, 18" thick, one round is 550 lbs ..
No wonder it's tough to get them on...

Huh, do I need to brush up on my math? My quick calculation has it at 204.2lbs... 550 seems crazy heavy but I've never touched a large oak round.
Edit...
Now I have it at 544lbs... Crazy heavy!

 

[GG Woody]

...And that's heavier than a cubic foot of water at 62.4lbs...
I wouldn't have thought so.
And I guess I shouldn't attempt math before bedtime

 

[stoveliker]

Calculating the Green Weight of Wood Species

How much does wood weigh? The question is simple enough for dry wood, but more difficult when wood is freshly cut.

extension.psu.edu

I had seen 65 elsewhere; here it says 60-62.
Doesn't matter. Point is a big round is freaking heavy

 

[thewoodlands]

Most of the snow I moved yesterday, went in the area in picture 1442 and some went in the area in picture 1443.

 

[thewoodlands]

Today the tractor received a good greasing along with the 3 point sander and then we put the 3 point sander on. I put three bags of sand in it thinking I would use the extra weight for plowing since I wanted a few more trails plowed. The wife wanted the driveway sanded so the battle was lost but the driveway did get sanded.

After I sanded most of the driveway, I figured that I would move more snow out of certain areas until I came across a bunch of snow & slush, that was moved down in the woods with the rest of the snow I've been moving.

The sun is strong today which felt nice, that's the sun in the water in picture 1445.

 

[MRD1985]

I've been splitting that oak here and there. Given that I'm doing it by hand, I'm taking it easy.

Problem is that I have a hard time getting the rounds on the chopping block. I thought I lost strength (with my loss of weight).

Turns out green red oak is 65 lbs per cubic foot.
At 32" round, 18" thick, one round is 550 lbs ..
No wonder it's tough to get them on...

Cut a slit with the saw across and then hit it with the maul. Then once small enough go at it with the X27. That’s how I got 30+ inch oak rounds this spring. About identical length and diameter. Pic of the 39” was the base.

 

[stoveliker]

It's against my ego to do that with red oak...

I think I put a pic up here showing one I did with the mail and x-27

 

[MRD1985]

It's against my ego to do that with red oak...

I think I put a pic up here showing one I did with the mail and x-27

you’re crazy. You’d be swinging at it for quite a while like I would. I’m only 165 lbs. work smarter not harder!

 

[stoveliker]

Just halved one. 15 whacks. 5 with the x27, and then I went to the fiskars maul.

But I've been told that I am crazy by many, so you may have a point

Maybe my 6'3" helps (longer arms in s longer swing is faster), though only 176 lbs.

 

[all night moe]

I just work from the edge and inwards, when splitting by hand.

Yesterday was first day back to work in about 2wks. 2 old growth black birch. Job was in a new development so these 2 were in the woods and grew big. Climbed up and set ropes for pull overs. The biggest had 2 leaders and one was dead. I took the top home with me. Burns good.

2nd job of the day were 2 black oak trims. and an apple removal. Couple decent pieces of black oak limb wood joined the birch. Didn't bother with the live apple tree. Oak was live too, but hard for me to pass on oak. I'll say it again, I gotta get my dump truck in action again. Would of had a nice score of a wood haul. I need to get my driveway and yard back in order again too. Can't wait for this snow and slush to disappear.

 

[stoveliker]

I like to split in half first, then quarter and get nice 90 degree angles, so I can make rectangular slabs of 8" by 3-4" thick or so. They stack nicely in my stove. (Or halve those slabs into 4x4" squares.)
Always will have some triangular corner pieces this way to fill out any gaps.

 

[all night moe]

I like to split in half first, then quarter and get nice 90 degree angles, so I can make rectangular slabs of 8" by 3-4" thick or so. They stack nicely in my stove. (Or halve those slabs into 4x4" squares.)
Always will have some triangular corner pieces this way to fill out any gaps.

Haha....now I see the method to your madness.

So you're really not crazy after all.

 

[MRD1985]

I like to split in half first, then quarter and get nice 90 degree angles, so I can make rectangular slabs of 8" by 3-4" thick or so. They stack nicely in my stove. (Or halve those slabs into 4x4" squares.)
Always will have some triangular corner pieces this way to fill out any gaps.

Basically my strategy too

 

[thewoodlands]

I'm glad I moved that snow/slush yesterday, it's raining today with a possible 6 to 8 inches of snow coming in, the winter from h LL keeps on giving.

 

[GG Woody]

I'm glad I moved that snow/slush yesterday, it's raining today with a possible 6 to 8 inches of snow coming in, the winter from h LL keeps on giving.

So jealous, I'm still waiting on winter. Sounds like +10°c - 50°f over the weekend.
Winter was a flop, all the snowmobiles are finally ready for it and it's over!

 

[thewoodlands]

So jealous, I'm still waiting on winter. Sounds like +10°c - 50°f over the weekend.
Winter was a flop, all the snowmobiles are finally ready for it and it's over!

About the only good thing about all the snow we had, most of it was sugar snow until the rains started. Some of the earlier rain wasn't hard but it still added extra weight on the roofs. I've never seen so many people have their roofs cleared off, I think we had some roof failures in this area that had people getting their roof cleared.

I did see a roof on the porch that was ready to go yesterday, today I went across town and the whole porch & roof came down.

 

[Pinesmoke]

A day and a half and I reached my goal with the winter clean up. Well ok, a dump truck and track hoe helped.

Before

After

 

[Pinesmoke]

Pile of crap in front of the house is done but for touch up. 3 BIG root balls loaded out. Now I can take care of it with a weed eater this summer.

 

[vatmark]

Todays work: Got the new gasket on the stove front door. Was going smoothly until it came time to put a bead of cement in the channel. I could barely get anything out of the tube. I got it done for the most part but it was not a nice clean bead. It was a mess. Not sure if the product was old. Bought it from amazon. Also didn't realize that stuff had to heat cure. So now I have to have another fire and clean up the stove again.

 

[NickW]

Not work done yet, but will need to be done shortly. Blew a brake line on the truck as I backed up to the trailer to head up north for the Internet install. Transfered everything we absolutely need to the wife's car and on our way...

Could have been very bad pulling a trailer had it happened on the road...

 

[GG Woody]

Not work done yet, but will need to be done shortly. Blew a brake line on the truck as I backed up to the trailer to head up north for the Internet install. Transfered everything we absolutely need to the wife's car and on our way...

Could have been very bad pulling a trailer had it happened on the road...

How old is the truck?
Should I be doing brake lines on my 2007... Hmmm...

 

[MRD1985]

How old is the truck?
Should I be doing brake lines on my 2007... Hmmm...

As a mechanic by trade, if your car or truck is 8-10 years old or older in the rust belt, they need to be inspected at minimum

 

[NickW]

How old is the truck?
Should I be doing brake lines on my 2007... Hmmm...

'05 with 392k miles, diesel. It's seen better days but is still mostly reliable.