Edit: Somehow I never got around to finishing and posting this. So here it is several months later đ Kate and I started our inaugural camping trip with me taking Friday off to do packing and loading of the “stuff” you need when you go camping. Thinks like tools (far too many), firewood, all the …
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To go along with our new camper we needed a more capable towing vehicle. We had been considering a few different larger SUV’s for the task but I felt that having a truck would be better. After much looking online for used and new trucks, Kate and I settled on a 2016 F150 with nearly every feature …
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Katey and I have been looking at campers on and off for about two years now. We’ve looked primarily at popups (aka folding tent camper) and hybrids (hard sides with foldout tent covered beds) and we prefer ones that have a slide out dinnette to increase the interior space.
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I had a need to move some of the logs and limbs that have not yet been split for firewood to make room for a new acquisition. This was a good opportunity to put the new chainsaw to work and see what it can do. It took me a few tries to get the saw …
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Now that the extreme summer heat is beginning to diminish, I have started thinking about getting back to the pile of logs I still have left to split. Some of these logs are quite large and very heavy. Heavy enough that I moved them with a hand truck when they trees were first felled. And …
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So I realized as my pile of split wood was growing that I was reaching the point of having a problem, several in fact. The biggest problem was that I was running out of room near where I had the splitter setup. Another problem was I was trampling my new grass by constantly shuffling back …
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With my next round of wood splitting I decided to capture some time-lapse video of the process. Below you can see the video. I feel like I’ve got the process down a bit better than my first outing.
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Back in the summer of 2015, we had several trees taken down in our back yard to make way for some landscape improvements (see the embedded video below for the felling of the biggest tree). We kept all the logs and I stacked them out of the way in a corner of the yard that …
Read More Learning to Split FirewoodThis is place for stuff. Sometimes I have the desire to show off something I’ve been working on around the house where just sending some photos isn’t good enough. This may end up being a dumping ground for all kinds of things. We’ll see I suppose.
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