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If you all have a smart phone, consider a free shot timer app (if any still free). Worthwhile to gauge how you are doing & just for fun.Recently:
Rotated (into the garden) our water. Rinsed 'em out, refilled and added bleach. Good till next spring.
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Exercise is going well, notwithstanding f'ing up my shoulder a couple of weeks ago. Lifted for the first time last weekend, felt alright. Solicited a gym last week, weights only, and may join. (I don't do gyms, but coaching is a thing so...)
Picked up another stack of #10 cans. Not much, but a 25-30 year shelf life means not needing to rotate. So just adding to the pile.
Last thing: did a drill yesterday with 2x12 round mags. Can consistently hit a man sized target 3 times in the chest area from 35 feet with my EDC subcompact 9 presenting from concealment (condition 2) in... I don't know, untimed. Pretty quickly. At the range. Under pressure? If that happens we'll see how urine running down my leg affects my aim.
If you have a rental place nearby, get a gas powered splitter. I split and stacked almost two cords in less than 4 hours with a friend rolling the rounds to me - rental place and back. I don't know why I never tried it before. Now my neighbor has a PTO driven splitter I can usecutting splitting firewood
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About 1/4th of a cord of good seasoned maple & some alder - took 4 hrs over two days. If I was in better health I could have done it all in one afternoon, including splitting & stacking. Probably about 3 weeks of wood depending on how cold it is.
Going to rain tonight so I loaded it up and put the PU in the shop. Next week I will back that up to the porch, split & stack it. The new maul is working well on some of the harder thicker rounds.
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About 1/4th of a cord of good seasoned maple & some alder - took 4 hrs over two days. If I was in better health I could have done it all in one afternoon, including splitting & stacking. Probably about 3 weeks of wood depending on how cold it is.
Going to rain tonight so I loaded it up and put the PU in the shop. Next week I will back that up to the porch, split & stack it. The new maul is working well on some of the harder thicker rounds.
Cut some more wood yesterday, split and stacked some this afternoon. If my back holds out tomorrow I will do some more. Rain returns tomorrow night so that means the pickup stays in the shop until it clears up next week. I've got plenty of wood on the porch and by the stove now so no issues there - I just want to keep that wood dry. I should have done more of this earlier in the year.cutting splitting firewood
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About 1/4th of a cord of good seasoned maple & some alder - took 4 hrs over two days. If I was in better health I could have done it all in one afternoon, including splitting & stacking. Probably about 3 weeks of wood depending on how cold it is.
Going to rain tonight so I loaded it up and put the PU in the shop. Next week I will back that up to the porch, split & stack it. The new maul is working well on some of the harder thicker rounds.
Ditto on the soreness - but not finished. For some reason today I just could not get much done in this regard. Kept running out of breath. But I did get the indoor rack by the stove refilled. I will just keep working at it until I can't do anymore due to weather or running out of space. I expect it to be a cold stormy winter. Yesterday I had no fire, but today I did - temps are such that comfort is borderline when I am sitting idle.The main thing I did was wrap up the last of the firewood storage for the cold, wet months ahead. I'm not going to bother denying it, man am I sore.
I mostly prep firewood to save $ on the electricity bill, especially now that I am not working, but also so that I have a backup heat source. Lost power 8 times last winter, and saved a bunch on the electricity bill until I ran out of firewood.@The Heretic, I hear you. I've read multiple, credible, articles that indicate we're in for a cold winter. Who knows, of course, but it helps being prepared. Godspeed with your labors.
Reminds me of when the little ones were younger they'd get all perplexed when I was making a fire in the woodstove. They' would ask wife "why is Dah-do making fire in that box" and she'd reply laconically "to keep your little butts warm." Now they ask "Can you make a fire to keep our little butts warm?" or making passing reference to said when they see me split, moving, etc., the firewood.
I don't know who the specialists are for getting a NG hookup, but it is common - the kids have it for their BBQ - so it shouldn't be hard to find someone to do it that is qualified.Got the generator from Costco. Also have an electrician scheduled to set up a transfer switch. Got a new 4x4. Any suggestions on gasoline storage? i got a couple 5 gallon from bimart. Also anyone ever hook up their natural gas home line to a backup generator before? electrician said he doesn't do that. Plumber? I think short term like a week or two we will be ok. I need to get more water storage.
When people say owning a house is a lot of work I just laugh and say "try owning 20 acres of forest".Tough shed is backed up until February. I would love to have land. Well... I dream of land. You folks bust your asses maintaining it. This city boy would probably put a chainsaw in his foot. If i could even figure out how to get it started... lol... uh it need gas??? hahaha.
When we had ours installed, IIRC, the electrician subcontracted the piping and hookup to a plumber. Though I am going from memory here. (We're in the forest, so there is no natural gas line, so had to go with 500-gallon propane tank.)Also anyone ever hook up their natural gas home line to a backup generator before? electrician said he doesn't do that. Plumber?