And so it begins

 Hello everyone,

The title says it’s time for wood cutting! It’s a lot of work for me, being almost 70, but it’s still my favorite time of year. Cool and crisp, not cold and snowy. The leaves are falling and changing colors. Plus, the work heats my house all winter, without paying the price for LP gas.

Here is the start,

Three large trees down, two were dead, one was dangerous for walking by. I’ve tried over the years to take the damaged ones if I could. 

The wife and I are leaving on vacation for a week or two, so my middle son is in charge of processing the wood that’s down. It’s mostly cut into chunks already but needs to be split, collected and stacked. We added a new spot to store wood awhile back, which hopefully makes it easier to keep the home fires burning. When we get back we’ll have more wood to cut, I’m guessing about 5 more or so good size trees

Well, I think that’s all for now.

Talk to you soon,

TVI

It’s been awhile

 Hello everyone,

Yep, it’s been awhile, but I have been busy. Still getting the yard cleaned up and ready for fall. Ordered new chains and bars for the saws, that’s about the next project on the list, cutting wood.

Since I sold my pickup, I haven’t had a way of hauling too much around so I had an old homemade trailer sitting out in back of the barn and the wife and I decided it was time to resurrect it. The whole bottom was rotted out of it from sitting outside all of this time and the mice had eaten most of the wiring up. The hitch on it was very worn out, I have been using it on the back of the 4 wheeler to move wood and wood chips around so it moved but not road worthy.

So, found a wiring harness that I had in my picking pile, I also had an almost new hitch for a 2” ball ( the old one was 1 7/8”), but it was for a three inch tube and the one on the trailer was 2 1/2” tube. So, I met up with my brother and Sho Teacher Bob for breakfast and asked him if he had any scrap 1/4” plate laying around and he did. He cut me up a couple of pieces and I stopped by and picked them up and, Bob’s your Uncle, spaced it out perfectly.

I’m no where near the welder that Shop Teacher Bob is but, I can make it stick together pretty well. Anyway, got all that taken care of, and had to install a wiring kit in Diego for the trailer lights.

My oldest son had a full sheet of 3/4” chipboard leftover from a project and said I could have it for the bottom of the trailer. Not exactly the perfect bottom but good enough for me to use for a few years at least, as long as I park it in the barn.

So I drove up to his house this morning and stuffed that sheet in the bottom and then loaded up a bunch of junk he wanted to be rid of.

I also had the job of installing a new garage door opener for him, which I didn’t mind at all ( I got a carnitas lunch out of it, so, all cool!). I was only there about 5 minutes and he dropped a trailer hitch on my big toe! Wasn’t really his fault, it just happened. I don’t think it’s broken but, it’s pretty bruised and pretty sore.

I did stay and put the door opener all together and programmed it so it’s all working.,

So, it looks like clean the shop and help the middle son fix the gas leak on his van tomorrow and then probably start cutting wood.

Well, I think that’s all for now.

Talk to you soon,

TVI