Mud Drying Days
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The sun made its appearance with a couple of warm, dry days and we were able to get the Big Red Beast that is loaded with dry, seasoned firewood out of the barn across the river and tucked safely into the bundling barn.
The truck is nosed in tight to the hay stack and is within inches of the far wall so she is out of the way leaving us plenty of room to do the cattle business on the other side of the barn and store equipment. This is considered ‘reserve’ wood, our five cord to be used when the cold weather hits and we are scrambling to keep up with firewood orders.
With the truck, Mike also moved several 1/2 cord cribs of firewood and kindling into position around the truck where they are ready to be the most current supply of ready wood for bundling.
As soon as we moved everything into position, a large tarp was smoothed over the load of the truck to protect the wood from from pesky bird droppings and condensation that forms droplets and rains as the sun warms the roof after a cold night. The individual cribs get covered with cardboard hats for the same purpose, the coverings are easily moved while we work through the crib to make bundles.
The wrapping machine will be set up near the kindling filled crib that is scheduled to be the first crib worked up. As each bundle is made it will be placed on a pallet in neat rows of 13 before moving the pallet into our storage bay of the garage until it is used up with orders. I am hoping to get the entire crib of kindling worked up and moved into the garage before I need to get back to the process of wrapping firewood. It will make a huge pallet stacked high with bundles but will stay secure and dry until needed for orders in the garage bay.
Each of the firewood filled cribs make up about 70-75 bundles of wood. As the kindling and firewood are emptied out of a rack, it will be moved out of this barn with the front loader tractor and back over to the barn across the river so it can be refilled with split wood or kindling.
Currently I have two empty cribs across the river. With the forecast for rain tomorrow, I plan on working in the comfort of that barn splitting up the next batch of kindling so that when this current crib is emptied the next one will be available. Me and the Super Split are going to be busy.