Bad news - The plastic cover for the tractor barn is leaking after 20 years of UV rays and the rain pounding on it.
Good news - The company where I bought it is still in business, pulled up my original purchase order and can sell me a new cover.
Bad news - Gotta move about 3 cords of firewood to get at the ratchet straps that secure the cover to the pipe frame.
Good news - If I shuffle some other stuff around then I can move that wood to the woodshed next to the garage.

Gonna be a lot of to-ing and fro-ing happening once we get a spell of dry weather here in the PNW. Might possibly be a cold beverage involved.
#Tractor #Firewood #WoodHeat

Got firewood?

Huge improvement this year. When the wood splitter is not in use it now lives on a dolly which is parked in the 2nd bay of our garage. Super easy to roll it out of the garage and position it for hooking up to the tractor's 3-point hitch and the tractor's rear hydraulics. When I start using it I usually rotate the working part to a vertical orientation.

Previously the splitter was stored in an unused hay room of our barn. But it was a real pita to hook it up and unhook it since the tractor and splitter were resting on different planes. Plus the side-to-side and overhead clearances were a bit tight.
#WoodHeat #FireWood

Got wood heat?

Sure, we have a normal high efficiency furnace that works fine but there is something about wood heat that we have always enjoyed. For example, the heat is uniform instead of on/off. As a result, the structure of the house and all the contents act as a heat sink and re-radiant that heat after the fire goes out.

Yesterday I dis-assembled the 3" duct that brings air from the outside to the stove since it was burning poorly. Having dry wood is not the issue. That duct work had some cobwebby material inside which I cleaned out but nothing major.

Whoa!! Night and day difference. Now the stove works *much* better.
#woodheat #woodstove #firewood

I thought #trailrunning was a good way to get thirsty.

Turns out that felling, bucking, loading, and splitting #firewood makes me WAY thirstier. #woodheat warms me several times, not least my heart because it's one of the greenest forms of heating available to me.