billjustbill
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You never know what you'll find at a garage sale... Tiffany Jewelry, 14kt. & 18kt gold, ....and Firewood?
Week before last, we went to a sale a day early. It's the one I went back later that day and spending a total of $40, I came home with "lots" and enough brass and copper to pay for everything else. ;>)
As I was leaving after the afternoon return to thesale, I asked about the stack of firewood. The lady said one fellow said he was coming back, but hadn't. I asked if he paid for it and she said, "No, but we've put in on Facebook for $50." Soooo, I paid her. She said it has to go as do the outside buildings, ASAP. I asked if I could come get the wood a week from the coming Monday.... She said, "Well, after the sale is over, it'll take us that long to tear down the outbuildings, but it's got to go by then."
The wood is Oak. It's already cut, and split, and well seasoned so much so, the bark just slides off....and I left it behind. It's exactly 9 miles from our driveway to the wood stack. It took 7 round trips. With a late start Monday morning due to locked gates, it's taken two days to move that amount of wood..... by the time I finished, counting Gas and Gator-aid, it's cost $80. And, not one Copper Head nor even a scorpion in the whole stack..... In the first picture is a 4' high and 8' long metal cattle panel to show the scale of how high the firewood was stacked behind one of the buildings.....
Here at home, I've stacked this wood on 4'x4' wood pallets to keep it off the ground. So, 4' wide, 8' long, and 4' high is a cord. Two 4' pallets in front, and two pallets in the back, then, on top of 2' high firewood, I filled in between them. The stacks are well over 4' high; almost 6 feet tall on the back stack. There is over 2-1/2 cords in the stacks here at the house.... No cutting; no splitting; no tree cleanup.....But, Lots of Ben-gay.....
Bill
Week before last, we went to a sale a day early. It's the one I went back later that day and spending a total of $40, I came home with "lots" and enough brass and copper to pay for everything else. ;>)
As I was leaving after the afternoon return to thesale, I asked about the stack of firewood. The lady said one fellow said he was coming back, but hadn't. I asked if he paid for it and she said, "No, but we've put in on Facebook for $50." Soooo, I paid her. She said it has to go as do the outside buildings, ASAP. I asked if I could come get the wood a week from the coming Monday.... She said, "Well, after the sale is over, it'll take us that long to tear down the outbuildings, but it's got to go by then."
The wood is Oak. It's already cut, and split, and well seasoned so much so, the bark just slides off....and I left it behind. It's exactly 9 miles from our driveway to the wood stack. It took 7 round trips. With a late start Monday morning due to locked gates, it's taken two days to move that amount of wood..... by the time I finished, counting Gas and Gator-aid, it's cost $80. And, not one Copper Head nor even a scorpion in the whole stack..... In the first picture is a 4' high and 8' long metal cattle panel to show the scale of how high the firewood was stacked behind one of the buildings.....
Here at home, I've stacked this wood on 4'x4' wood pallets to keep it off the ground. So, 4' wide, 8' long, and 4' high is a cord. Two 4' pallets in front, and two pallets in the back, then, on top of 2' high firewood, I filled in between them. The stacks are well over 4' high; almost 6 feet tall on the back stack. There is over 2-1/2 cords in the stacks here at the house.... No cutting; no splitting; no tree cleanup.....But, Lots of Ben-gay.....
Bill
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