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#firewood

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Concrete beams deployed, now onto the boring task of stacking more firewood.

The not that big looking pile in the yard turned out to be 3.5 trailer loads.

Yes, poor Iseki still hasn't been washed because frost came back just as I was about to plumb together some kind of pressure washing setup. Soon 25°C though! :surprised_pikachu:

The firewood store, with more concrete beams being dragged under the roof with the help of an orange towing strap wrapped around one of them. One is already aligned to the width of firewood logs and some of them stacked on top. A stack from before is in the background. Some long sticks are on the ground. In the sunny background, tractor and trailer with more concrete beams.
Tractor and trailer, now parked alongside the firewood store roof, which has a grape plant growing all over it. The trailer is now loaded with a pile of split firewood. The sky is blue with fluffy clouds and looks really nice, despite the freezing wind.
Same trailer, now parked in the yard and freshly laden with another load of firewood, some of it of low quality with spalting and smaller sticks.
#Tractor#Homestead#Firewood
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Some of the concrete beams got a new job. Keeping firewood off the ground and well ventilated.

This firewood store is superb, wind blows through it from one direction or the other most of the time. The stacks were aligned the wrong way though and leaning against the barn, plus the wood had just been stacked on the ground, so the bottom layers were rotted away and the next few were moist.

All fixed now! Plus some stacking done.

There's even tasty grapes on the roof.

Two concrete beams dragged under the newly resupported firewood store roof and laid next to each other with some space between. A few firewood logs have been stacked across the top, leaving them well off the ground and with a ventilated gap underneath. Part of the tractor trailer is visible in the sunshine outside the roof. A plank is attached from the roof down to lean firewood against.
Same location, now with more concrete beams and more firewood stacked on top in a second row.
Same location again, later the same a day. There's now five concrete beams on the ground with three and a half stacks of firewood on top, three of which are filled all the way to the roof. The rear is supported with planks against the roof beam and some rebar hammered into the ground on the bottom, the front is stacked in alternating direction, supporting itself.
#Firewood#Homestead#DIY
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Fixed up the roof supports of the firewood store. The old were sitting on soil and rotting away.

Jacked up the roof beam, cut out the rotten old support and pulled it out. Filled the hole with smashed up concrete debris and drilled a hole through a large chunk, hammered a piece of rebar through and left it sticking out to fit into a hole I drilled into the new log. No more rotting.

Then new supports cut, shaped and installed x3.

A lean-to roof extending the side of a barn to store firewood under. Three logs hold up a crossbeam that supports the rafters that hold the roof. There is a fourth log next to the rightmost support, hovering above a plank. This is because a red hydraulic jack is lifting it with the help of a split firewood log screwed to the side of the temporary support. The roof beam is braced sideways with two temporary supports hammered in at angles, stuck into the ground.
A new foundation piece, resting on some concrete debris (and pottery shards for future archeologists). The foundation itself is a large chunk of salvaged concrete with a hole drilled through the center, through which a piece of rebar protrudes about 5 cm upwards (and invisible about half a meter down). The plank holding the temporary support is partially visible next to it.
Same as the first scene, except the old support is gone and a new debarked and straight log in its place, standing on a rot proof concrete support. The temporary support, red hydraulic jack and plank are still in place but no longer support the load of the roof.
The finished three supports, now new and sitting on concrete chunks. Four planks have been fastened at angles to prevent shearing. The ground is scattered with debris from the work and from old bark and firewood. The old roof beam has been debarked as well.
#Homestead#DIY#Firewood
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Delta Sierra

Took advantage of a second day of nice weather to go snag some free firewood!

These are all sections of trunk that were attached to root balls. The trees were mostly felled by high winds, and my partner already broke up the bulk of each tree (slash to the forestry yard, trunks broken up into nice even sections, dried for a bit, then split). But we still got almost another 1000lbs of wood today. And we're doing a bit to help prevent fires in the area too!

A truck bed filled with varying lengths and diameters of partial tree trunks. They're loaded in somewhat randomly, but there's about a cord of wood here (in pre-cut form). In the background a peaceful blue sky and tree tops arr visible over the cab of the truck.
#firewood#outdoors#nature
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Ivor

Thanks to Trade Frames Direct of Bishop Auckland who always have a lot of waste wood that they don't want to put into a skip. It's about 50/50 hardwood and softwood.

Most of these windows were still glazed so I had a smashing time yesterday.

Old wooden window frames, a broken pallet and other bits of waste wood leaning against a bench in the yard. The byre is behind and, on right, a stone fire pit.
#WoodBurner#Firewood
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Picked up the rest of the two fallen birches from the bottom of the road. The parts not frozen to the ground anyways.

Lots more fallen and hanging trees to clean up.

The pile grows!

Been looking at a PTO shredder for the tractor to process the piles of branches I've been leaving everywhere. Good stuff when mulched. Less so when piled up in the forest. Burning is dumb.

There's a nice one from Poland:

litechnija.lt/en/wood-chippers

Need a sponsor 😛

Small blue tractor with small trailer in the forest, loaded with some birch logs. The forest is thin birches growing in swampy soil near a river. There's lots of hanging trees visible and the sun shining low over the tops. Snow is on the ground, and a pile of branches behind the trailer.
A pile of split firewood in front of a barn. The evening sun is shining on it, casting it in a nice reddish light. The ground behind is covered with chips and sawdust.
#Homestead#Firewood#Shredder
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Athamanatha

I'm sat in the #Vulpibus boiling the kettle with #solarpower to make #tea to settle my upset stomach. I spent most of today trying to dismantle several #pallets for usable #timber, and finding that a frustrating number of the boards and beams are rotten, split or otherwise not good, and my expectations weren't high to begin with. Ah well, we have plenty of #firewood now! And a few good boards too.

#MUTUALAID We are still at $60 of the $1000 goal for this week, and we really need to meet this goal if we are to break out of the overdraft and #debt cycle! Please #help us cover our basic needs and bureaucracy fees and such while our time is absorbed with the #necessities of setting up our home; we hope that when we are all set up, we can repay the world many times over with what we develop in our #geneediting system!

#buslife#upcycling#trans
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Lætitia

One of the reasons I’ve been postponing migrating servers is that I’ve been busy on too many different things. Like preparing my garden for spring coming up and clean up the mess the wind did during the snow.

First picture was in January. The others are 2 days ago. I’m not sure the new tree will actually live because it was attached to the plum tree that fell and so was damaged a bit too. This work was spread over a few days, mainly keeping me busy the last 2 weekends.

A snow-covered freshly fallen tree lies on a snowy garden ground, surrounded by other snow-laden branches. The scene conveys a tranquil winter landscape. But it was actually dramatic, I lost a plum tree.
The same place, but some weeks later. A newly planted small tree stands in a grassy area next to a brick building. Surrounding the tree are remnants of bare branches from larger trees, and there is a patch of dirt and grass visible. And my shadow on the right.
Results of cutting the plum tree and pruning a few other trees in the garden. A stack of firewood and several bundles of branches are organized near a brick house, with a chainsaw resting on the ground. The scene is set outdoors, featuring green grass and trees in the background.
A stack of firewood composed of various lengths and types of logs is positioned next to a red-brick wall with a wooden window. A chainsaw is placed on the ground beside the wood, and there are some irregular wood pieces and an opening in the ground (for the cat to enter the basement by herself).
#garden#gardening#firewood
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cohan

I decided to make a longer #video ca 10 mins (editing is..fun..lol) Cutting #firewood in the #bush on a couple of recent #cold days
I make noise with tarps, crunch around on snow, use a chainsaw + wood splitting maul (big heavy axe- don't call it an axe..lol). Lots of ASMR some plain old noise + jibber jabber as I talk + pretty #forest views of frost crystals falling
Spectra to follow
youtu.be/NiryPEQvdEI
#Alberta #Canada #CountryLiving #BorealForest #Getoutside #frostodon #PolarVortex

A video thumbnail 1920w x 1080h landscape format. The image starts withf a photo of snowy woodland in the trees, framed with a wide white border, rounded edges on the inside-- but this image is barely seen. It is overlaid with three portrait format images side by side, each also framed with white rounded edge borders and with white vignetting around the edges. Left is a view of sun shining through trees in a snowy scene with frost crystals falling from the trees and catching the light. The word Frost in large white Impact font appears on this one. Centre is a picture of me with black hoody and faux furry hat- all dusted with snow, my black and silver framed retro glasses darkened by outdoor light, low moustache and chin beard mostly white so you don't see the frost that also lines my collar. The word Cold is on this image. Right is me seen from mid chest down, in black hoody and black Dickie work pants chopping wood- I'm using a large heavy yellow and black chopping maul (kind of axe) the wood to be split is placed on another wooden block ( short chunk of log standing on end); the maul has just split a piece of wood, with chunks flying to each side to join the small pile there. This one bears the word Wind. At the bottom of the image in white semibold font the words cutting firewood at -20C/-4f appear.
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Picked up those two fallen birches from the bottom of the road (see previous photo).

No problems getting up the hill despite all the snow this time.

The small trailer is filled up pretty quick, this is just from two skinny birches and I didn't even get even get everything as there's another tree across that I need to pull off.

But I think trying the big trailer might be tempting fate.

Small blue tractor pulling a small trailer with wooden top. It's filled with snowy logs and branches. There's two chainsaws somewhere in there too. The valley floor is covered with snow and there's many slim trees with snow on their branches on the riverside.
#Firewood#Forestry#Homestead
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Paying the heating bill.

Set up a nice firewood station now. The three-limbed stump makes a good log sawing stand.

Also rolled the old chopping block over there, shortened it a bit (it was too tall even for a tall person) and split the logs I collected from clearing the road.

The apple logs were in full sap (result of overly warm January) and frozen hard - the axe just bounced off. They'll have to thaw first.

Could use a slightly heavier axe.

A firewood processing area in a snowy surrounding. From the left there's a yellow chainsaw sitting on a large "cookie" slice from a big log. Then a rooted stump about 1.5m tall with three limbs as clamps. A small pile of logs. A large chopping block on top of which a log is being split by a steel wedge. An axe and large maul are on the ground next to it. A pile of logs and behind a pile of split firewood. Further, past a gate, a few debarked logs rest on steel trestles.
#Firewood#Heating#Homestead
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Finished processing that apple tree. Some nice fruit wood for making shashlikh, another length of log for sawmilling and another stupid pile of branches to be turned into useful mulch later.

Some knotty parts were hard to split and tried to steal my axe, so I cut the burr off this old (but very useful) steel wedge and rescued my axe with it.

Grinder ran out of battery, so no smooth finish.

A steel wedge clamped to a sawhorse on frozen ground. The wedge has a huge burr from someone beating the shit out of it with a big steel maul (that also has a matching burr). There's a hole near the rear for retrieval.
The same steel wedge, now with the burr cut off, stuck in the middle of a log that already has an axe stuck in it. A big pile of branches is behind and some split logs on the ground.
A pretty pattern inside a log where the tree has been branching into two thick parts. It's coloured whie, red and brown and there's a black scar in the split.
Wheelbarrow full of split logs.
#Tools#Homestead#DIY
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

After the test run, first mission: pick up windfall from the road down to the river.

This is why I serviced the already overhauled tractor first - I really wanted to be sure the brakes work. Had to stop on that hill repeatedly to pick up piles of logs.

Great success, not only did everything fit in the trailer, the Iseki pulled it back up the steep and snowy path with ease.

A lot easier than by wheelbarrow! 😅

Bonus: A nice sunset.

Blue tractor facing downhill on a snowy road that is sloping more towards the front wheels. The trailer is partially filled with snow covered logs. A forest is behind, on a level area.
Tractor and trailer again. Now fully laden with logs from fallen trees and some snow, they are parked in front of a barn for unloading.
A nice sunset peeking out under cloud cover. A tall tree and some snowy landscape.
The trailer, unhitched and tilted back like a dump trailer, the hitch supported by a stick, giving me ideas for improvements.
#Tractor#Trailer#Firewood
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