Early this week I had the roughest time with my rheumatism. That cost me two days. Then I got a visit from a guy who lives in town, but has a house down here, too. He asked me if I wanted the wood from a tree he was having cut down at the house in town. I went up far too early as it took longer than I thought it might to get the tree down, so I visited the kids for a bit. It was good to get up there early so I could specify to the tree cutter how I wanted the wood pieced up. When I went to pick it up, the wood had to be machine lifted onto the trailer. I have three pieces that are long enough to make into boards of some sort. There will be a lot of knots in whatever I make of it. I don’t yet know if I will make something like 6 or 8 inch wide by 1 inch thick, or 2×4’s.
I went back over today. The guy who owns the house decided on taking down a second smaller tree. I told the cutter to go ahead and make it into firewood or anything that works best for him. That is sat on the trailer and in the bed of the truck right now. I’ll get that out at any dry points tomorrow. The second tree is an Austrian Pine, so said the tree cutter. I am not sure of the big tree. Might be the same as it came out of the same yard, but the tree cutter never said.
So what will I do with the wood? I will cut the smaller bits into firewood. There are some longer bits that might just fit between the bolsters on the mill, and I am thinking I want to try milling them into basically large cubes. I’ll have to put some Anchorseal on them and leave them for a year or more. They need to leak out a lot of sap. I’ve got a couple of boards from a pine I took down in our yard a year ago, and it is in pretty good shape. Once dry, I am sure I can sell them.
So there’s this week so far. Perhaps this should be on the homestead blog, but it is what I am up to. It is warmer now that it is springtime proper. I am going ot need to get down to the dump and get some wood coming back to the house. I’ll need some for lumber and for firewood. There are things to build around here, and the firewood needs time to dry. Somehow I need to fit in the installation of a septic system too. Nothing to it.