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Friday, March 03, 2023
'tis just a breeze
We're expecting fairly stiff straight line winds today with gusts of 60 mph and I'm already seeing warnings for power outages. We lost power here for a couple of days before, but they've been pretty aggressive with trimming trees near power lines the past couple years. We'll see how that shit rolls.
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yup. they are doing the same thing around here now. trimming the trees back bigtime.
ReplyDeletefunny thing, the wood they cut up in going fast. and yesterday we saw a pickup with a trailer
there and they where stacking it full.. most of the time, they leave the cut offs by the road for people to pickup and burn at home. but I guess now that firewood is over 300 a cord, they taking it. as it almost all state game land around here. they leave it.
the good burning stuff gets cut to 18 inches, the crap they leave in logs.
I have to rethink getting a pickup as there is only so much I can fit into my 4runner.
good cheap firewood is a thing of the past now a days
Over 300 bucks a cord!!! Holy shit, it's less than half that around here.
DeleteI used to put up eight cord, not those damn face cords, or more in Va every year. I heated a 1,800 sq ft log home with wood. It took me about two weeks from start to last piece stacked. Lot a work there and I made it easy. Dropped the dead, limbed and drug the logs with my tractor to my woodshed. I cut them up there and had an Oregon splitter a 28 ton. I was dropping mainly big oak, maple.
Deleteyeah, it is the rich fuckers coming here from the cities. this is a nice area, but there are a lot of summer/vacation people around here with money. some asshole will sell their house in NY or jersey and buy a nice house around here. until the first hard winter. then they sell out and head south. had a older guy who sold me great deals on firewood. seasoned, split and stacked for 100 bucks a truck load. and he STACKED it in his truck. always over a 1/2 cord at least. nice guy, but he retired and went south to Fla..
ReplyDeletethere are a lot of clowns who will sell you shit wood at top dollar too here.
finding a good and fair firewood guy takes time or inside info.
this past spring, my neighbor got a lot of trees cut down and cleaned up her spot.
so, I got a good 6 cords plus of unsplit rounds for beer and soda to the workers
spent close to 2 months splitting it all up. ( I am old and fucked up these days)
still have over half of it left now. all beech and oak wood with some ash and cherry in the mix- damn good firewood ! the saving let me grab the Springfield SA-35 this past fall.
otherwise, I wouldn't have had the money for it. it a ice weapon, good shooter too.
better than any of the other high powers I owned before.
The owner of the farm my son runs sold firewood for years, a side effect of his operation to provide firewood to heat his greenhouses. (He has a wood-fired boiler that heats water piped to the greenhouses.) He always cut and split more firewood than he needed and sold that surplus.
DeleteTo prove just how crazy folks "from away" were, he started selling two grades of firewood - well seasoned firewood and "Organically Grown, Solar Dried" firewood.
He sold the OGSD firewood for $50 more per cord than the seasoned firewood. He sold a lot of it to the folks from away.
Of course both grades of firewood came from the same pile...because both were organically grown and solar dried. It goes to show us just how far some folks will go (and pay) to virtue signal their 'superiority' over the local 'bumpkins'.
Think about how much he could've charged had he tagged it as gluten free.
DeleteHmm, not a bad idea. It would probably pull in more of the vegan crowd. After all, they wouldn't want their children gnawing on all those gluten filled trees!
DeleteThose winds are common down here in very southern Arizona this time of year.
ReplyDeleteWe're getting ~14 inches of snow with the snowfall starting sometime this evening. Considering the accuracy of the snowfall estimates so far this winter, I'm expecting closer to 20 inches.
ReplyDeleteI guess it means I'll have to break out the roof-rake to pull the snow off the roof...
I'm about 90 miles southwest of Ken, think mile marker 143, I-40. By 7 this morning, our wind-o-meter says we've gotten a 30 mph gust, forecast for 60 mph. 3 years ago we had big straight line winds that took down trees and poles and left us without power for 9 days. Found out my Tractor Supply 6000 w generator doesn't use much fuel. We're at the end of a leg, so had to wait for dozens of power poles to be replaced.
ReplyDeleteI've removed all the trees around my place big enough to reach the house. You'd think with a name like mine, eh?
I've got 2 large maples within 20 feet of the south side of the house and the winds are supposed to come in from the south.
DeleteWe are on the other side of the mountains from Ken in the foothills. They say we are gonna get 40-50 mph gusts with 20-25 sustained. It starts this afternoon and continues into the night with thunder and lightening. Stay safe folks.
ReplyDeleteFlooding rain warnings here. Unless I see Noah's Great Grandson floating by I am high enough not to care. Removed trees that could reach house and have 60 gal of gas on hand for generator. Let it blow!
ReplyDeleteWe're expecting heavy weather this afternoon lots of rain, golf ball sized hail and possible tornadoes. But the thing that really scares me is they're pretty sure the wind will be blowing at Kamala strength.
ReplyDeleteState of Jefferson is expecting another 10-15 inches tomorrow, this after the same onTuesday. Mt. Shasta got 3 feet so far this week alone.
ReplyDeleteI'm like Tree Mike, the 'End of the Line' in the Electric Co-Op. The Very Last Transformer at the border of the NOVEC System is behind one of the Barns, and we have 3 sperate Generator Sets on the 400 Acres, to run Wells and keep the Water systems and Livestock Water Boxes from Freezing in the Winter. Only the one at the "Big House" is an Auto-Start and Transfer unit, so as the Horse Mechanic, I get to run around and Start, Connect, and Refuel the other two 10-KW. Mil-Surplus Diesels in their Shelter Boxes.
ReplyDeleteThe Line Electricians know us, and that we don't need Priority for Repairs, so sometimes we are 'Offline' a few Days, although since two Years ago when they did more Trimming in our area, we haven't been Down except the Time a Drunken Messican in a Dump Truck took out a Pole.