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[Ridgekid]

Bill-

Hows the installation going? Get that "Black snake" buried yet?

[Bill G]

Yes Sir!!

Went smooth...had help from 3 friends and Sunday saw lots of progress.  47 ft buried and 13 stubbed up and buried in direction of very distant future hot-tub!  Thank goodness for my friend Ed, and his nephew Rory!  He had the pleasure of driving the hammer drill w/5" core drill going thru 10" poured foundation.  Took about 1/2 hr of drilling/chiseling to get thru.  Nice, clean job and that pipe fit easily thru.  Also, 1.5" hole for electric conduit.  Drilled slight angle downhill going out of basement so any ground water shouldn't follow.  Mixed up hydraulic cement and packed around pipe.  Re-coated w/foundation tar. 

Mini excavator did fine digging trench and leveling pad.  5 1/2 ft deep for sweep in both pipes to come up straight put of the ground!  Stiffer than "wedding night pipe"!!

Pad will be 12 ft sq.  Put down 5 tons of 2b mod to level up yesterday.  Today, when I get in gear, will put in forms.  Figuring 3 yds concrete for 5 1/2" thick.  Will roof over and close in left side and back. 

Never worked w/metal roofing and need to find out about such?  Don't seem to dificult.  Planning on 2 ft over-hang all around. 

Quite possible to get pad poured Friday.  If my only mason buddy can spare a couple hrs to put nice finish on it for me. 

Lot of beer caps buried in trench!!  All enjoyed steak dinner Sunday evening...Thank God for great Friends!!!

Keep in touch...

Bill

[Ridgekid]

Nice progress report! Once you get it installed you'll be like me, waitng for a real Pa winter to give her the real test!

I'm up to 5 cords split and stacked. Triaxle load should be here by the weekend. Guess what I'll be doing? 

[RSI]

I'm up to 5 cords split and stacked. Triaxle load should be here by the weekend. Guess what I'll be doing? 

I am guessing you don't have the same weather as here. Was over 90 yesterday. Was mid 80's today with 80-100% humidity.

[Bill G]

Mr. Ridgekid,

Got started on forms.  Forced to oversee teener baseball practice as coach had other commitment.  Thought I was done with that!  Ran infield practice and those bats seem heavier every year. 

Anyhoo, I got about as much wood put up as you do.  Certainly not done, just sidetracked.  Will be making call soon for my load of oak.  Sister and bil also ordering this time.  Hoping for same price as last time, but not holding my breath on that as fuel prices way HI!!!!!

All in all, yes, things moving along in positive direction!

Bill

[Bill G]

Hey Guys,

Rain has put off pouring concrete til probably thursday.

Used time in-betweenst rain events to buck up nother cord and 1/2 of oak.  Will split and stack as weather permits.  Want to be fully ready and over-stocked for coming winter.  Logs been down for a year and should be seasoned nicely for winter 11/12.  Bark readily falls off when handling.  Looking good!

Gives me 6+ cords of oak and 1 1/2 cords of poplar.  Not done yet, and will continue with the never ending free searches.  Figure the poplar will fill in for April/early May next year.

 Got price on triax load and went to $650 this year.  Up 100 fr. 2 yrs ago.  Not gonna complain because it is such "primo" logs delivered in the past.  A conservative guess would be 8 cord on truck.  My pal sure does heap the load!  With my own pickins, and the truck delivery, I always got 2 years worth with the 4200 Quadrafire.  Burned 6 cord annually, loading 5-6 times per day.  Hoping maybe only cord more per yr with the new "soon to be delivered" PM opt 250.  Time will tell!

Will get pic's when pad is poured.

Bill

[Ridgekid]

The tree I cut down this weekend was like that-Bark falling off. Don't know what was keeping it on the tree till it fell. Solid all the way to the base. Yet dead with exception of one limb with a few leaves on it. Split super easy too.

Nice to be cutting for a OWB instead of indoor woodstove. I can cut the pieces bigger! Not too big, got to make sure the wife can still handle them when its her turn to stock it! 

6 cords done. Need two more to finsh the stack by the OWB. Then start a backup stack, which could be another 8 depending on the triaxle load.

[RSI]

I got a load like this that was supposed to be 10 cord but was actually around 9.

[Ridgekid]

RSI-
If you don't mind me asking, what did you pay for that? Our load will be without trailer.

[RSI]

Got it last fall and it was $900.
It was loaded just the same. The truck isn't completely full at the back. He claimed it was 60,000 Lbs of wood and that was all he could legally haul.
I cut it all into 32" pieces and piled it in the wood shed. (unsplit) The shed is 18' wide and has an 8-1/2' ceiling. It didn't quite make 3 rows. The 3 rows were probably closer to 100" because of not stacking perfect. Supposedly the wood pile expands about 15% when split so figuring that way it would have been slightly over 10 cord but the way it sits is around 9 cord.

[Ridgekid]

Not bad! They don't have rigs like that around here. Just the triaxle. So if I get 5.5 cords for $550 it appears pricing is about the same.

[RSI]

There was another place that was $800 that was supposedly the same amount but they had a lot of elm and walnut in it.
This was probably over 95% oak. I think there was one cherry log and a few hickory in it.

I am trying to figure out how to get this: http://madison.craigslist.org/for/2380675317.html
The problem is that it is 50 miles away. He says he thinks it is between 15 and 25 cords.

[Ridgekid]

WOW- your going to need alot of friends with trucks and trailers to get that home.

[Ridgekid]

OK. I finally got mine! I have the next three days off. Guess what I'll be doing. (If my body doesn't revolt against me)

Any bets on how many cords this is?

http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/index.php?action=media;sa=media;in=49

[Bill G]

Hey Ridgekid.
     Nice load and not a real lot of spilt work!  It will surely do fine!!!

     Got pad poured today.  Rained some and kept covered during rain events.  Finish should be ok.  Mason/finish buddy recomends keeping 6x6 posts off of pad and to dig holes and  put in bag or so of quik-crete to set posts on for 6x's.  Will take his advice.

     Furnace to arrive next Friday.  Wood splitting finished w/ stacking of final pile to follow. 

     Looking to find 1" crimp tool for pex???  Step at a time here.  buy, rent,? 

    Very happy with progress...once in a while question sanity??  Still don't wish to pay LP guy...

    Truly appreciate a good peppp talk!  12 X12 pad.  Looks good.

    If you were closer, I'd be over to help tackle that load!

       Bill