Mixed Up Tuesday

From all the hub-bub of last week to the weekly firewood delivery, everything seemed to be on an unusual schedule. The normal Tuesday firewood delivery was made on Sunday this week because of stores knowing that they would be slammed before the Christmas holiday. That left our normal Tuesday delivery day feeling a little deflated, so we decided it would be a good time to begin refilling the pallets of bundled inventory for next weeks orders.

Tuesday we started bundling up the kindling and have now used up all the dry kindling pieces that we have available so I hope the pallet of bundles that we have made will be enough for the next round of orders.

Next we moved on to premium wood of cherry and maple, we refilled the pallet plus have the tow-cart full and ready to deliver to the garage. I ran out of daylight so the cart will be hauled to the garage by the Gator on Thursday and stacked on the premium pallet.

If/when the weather dries up a bit, we will be cutting the blocks for making the new batch of kindling that needs to be moved into the garage for drying and curing. The logs have been cut since early summer so the drying process will not take very long, but only as long as I have the stacks in proper rows so the curing will be uniform where the fans pull the moisture away quickly. It will take several days to fill a crib with kindling so that it can be put by the drying fans and dehumidifier, then drying for possibly another week.

In the meantime, I still need two more pallets of regular firewood bundles made up and stacked in the garage before we send in our inventory availability. We usually send in our inventory on Saturday in preparation for the scheduling guru to send out the loading and delivery schedule to all the producers for the Oregon Woodland Co-Op. (Just a small note about our personal guru; Lynn does an amazing job as the liaison between the stores and the producers. Each week she compiles our individual inventories, checks with each of the stores to find out their needs, and doles out the orders to each producer. To match the orders with the inventories is no easy fete. Our guru has to keep in  mind the method of delivery(truck or trailer), how much wood can be delivered by the producer, where the stores are located in relation to each producer and traffic issues like road construction closures, just to name a few variables. We are fortunate to have our super guru!)

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