Posted by Adirondack case guy on December 05, 2010 at 14:34:53 from (67.252.92.228):
Well I'm a little behind on my wood cutting again this year. There's a lot of dead ash trees standing in the woods, plus many maples that lost their tops in an ice storm several years back. We don't cut trees unless they are dead or deformed. There will be fire wood here as long as I'm alive. Usually my son comes up on a Saturday or Sunday and the two of us can fill 1 trailer in about 2 hours. We drop and block them where they fall. the Kubota with the 3pt spliter can get right to where the blocks are to split them, and the trailers are no wider than the tractor which has been narrowed up, worked well. All the mess was left in the woods. This year I have to do it a little diff. as the son has 3 blown discs in his back and can't help. Yesterday I drug out dead and downers to the edge of the field and blocked them there. Very time consuming and dirt on logs dulling the saw chain. I got the wife to go up with me today, to run the spliter and help out, but she gets cold easy. Any how we had a good weekend. The fireplace in the pic provides us with about 90% of our heat. We do burn about 150 gal of fuel oil per year also. The wood rack on the left of the fireplace is a dumb waiter. Up in the trusses above the ceiling I mounted an 1100# linepull Harbor Freight winch on on a wood framework that transfers the load down to the cellar floor The steel trolly runs in overhead door track. I can back my wood trailers and tractor in to my cellar. I striped down an old electric feed cart to transport the wood from trailer or pile to the dumb waiter when I lower it down to that level. It beats the He!! out of carrying wood up stair steps. Just a final note. the fire place is a 0 clearance Fireplace Extrordinair.Which has a cadalitic convereter that heats up to 1200 degrees and reburns the smoke. The mantle was a standing dead 10" maple from the woods and most of the stone is manmade, except the arch around the doors. That is natural stone which I dug out of the ground in Duansburg NY when I built a comercial building there. Its slate, and came out of the ground in large peices about 20" wide and 4-6" thick and sometimes 8' long with a Cat 220 Hoe when we excavated the site. I set a bunch of these peices aside during the excavation. They're even laiden with fosiles of huge tropical furns.
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