All Boxed Up

[kayla_allen]

After several days, Lisa finished unloading the Pres-to-Logs from the utility trailer, put the trailer away, and stowed the Small Orange Pickup in the garage. If you missed my earlier post about this, Lisa asked me to not help her, and she worked on it at her own pace in order to get outside in better weather and also get some exercise.



Here's the nearly-full wood box. Now if we don't need to start the fire again this season, we'll move the wood that's in the front porch box and also the small amount that is still in the living room, and I think the box will be completely full. This would be a good thing, because it means in (probably) early November, we'll have a full supply and can stay warm while working out the next load of wood.

It is sort of ironic that we finally got a full load of wood into storage just as the weather turned warm enough to let the fire go out. Whether we'll get any more cold snaps, I don't know. I do know that the snow on the Virginia-Pah Rah mountains is completely gone. There have been years when there was snow visible on the higher peaks through the end of May, but not this year.

Comments

[cmcmck]

That's a lotta logs!

[kayla_allen]

Yeah, but based on the (literal) burn rate during the coldest parts of the year, it's less than a month's worth of firewood. A further issue is that based on our storage capacity, you have to wait until it gets down to roughly a week of wood remaining before you get more, which can sometimes be a logistical challenge. Lisa has talked of build a second box, which would give us more leeway by raising our storage capacity to two months.

Now that we have the East Lot, we could buy multiple pallets, although we can only transport one at a time The issue with that is that a pallet weighs roughly one ton. (A bit more than that, actually: more like 1250 kg.) So while they can load the pallet on the trailer, and while we could easily store the plastic-wrapped pallet in the East Lot and transfer it to the wood box at leisure, it's getting the pallet off the trailer that is a problem. There's a fellow down the street who has unloaded pallets from our trailer now and then (I pay him $20 for it), but he can only take the forklift onto a hard surface or he will get bogged down. Our lot is dirt and not hard-packed dirt. So she's contemplating buying something that could do the lifting. That's not cheap, even used.