⛈ The weather thread. The south braces for the weekend cold (Moved here for a few days since some of y'all will feel this.)

[TerryP]

I see. I guess the 1:20 is the 4:20 for older people.

You've never paid attention to the time of posts before this morning? Today started yesterday.

 

[alabama mike]

-4 here this morning and this is the 4th day with no school. Very unusual. I drove into towns yesterday and the side roads are horrible. With sunshine today and a high in the low 20’s we will get some melting.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

You've never paid attention to the time of posts before this morning? Today started yesterday.

Notice occasionally
Thinks its more " tomorrow started today " though

 

[TerryP]

Thinks its more " tomorrow started today " though

I'm always up at this time. It's rare I'm not. More often than not I'm getting my first cuppa while you guys are winding down your day.

 

[bamaledge]

A bit chilly this morning.

 

[TerryP]

When you look it doesn't quite make sense. It'll be 60'ish by 3 pm and in 48 I should have 5" or so accumulated?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Your high for tomorrow will occur at midnight tonight.

Snow and flooding, what a great combination.

 

[TerryP]

Snow and flooding, what a great combination.

How much of the yard doesn't have any ground cover since your burn/clean?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

How much of the yard doesn't have any ground cover since your burn/clean?

The front at the street is clear, all of the undergrowth is gone and ready for landscaping (still have some leaves to get up and burn) that will hopefully begin in the next three weeks. About halfway down, I cut about eight hackberries and two small oaks, along with a bunch of privet hedge and holly. I burned all of the trees, but I still have some finish work and will have one more fire up there. Once I got that fire going and added the tree trunks to it, that was one hot fire.


The backyard is a disaster right now. Two oaks aren't fully split yet, and I had to pay to have a large ash taken down that was leaning very precariously over the neighbor's driveway. Tree guy came Tuesday and did a great job, leaving it for me to finish cutting, and then burn/split. I split all of the ash Wednesday and yesterday (ash is just about the easiest wood to split and makes decent firewood). The area where the tree was was in the last overgrown part of my property, so I'm cleaning all of that this week and I'll have a day's burning. My burn pile is already a bit large, so I've staged limbs and stuff all over the backyard to add to the fire as it burns down, so it's a mess.

And, I still have some large areas to get leaves up and burn. The goal is to have it all burnt by the time the landscaping starts.

 

[TerryP]

The front at the street is clear, all of the undergrowth is gone and ready for landscaping (still have some leaves to get up and burn) that will hopefully begin in the next three weeks. About halfway down, I cut about eight hackberries and two small oaks, along with a bunch of privet hedge and holly. I burned all of the trees, but I still have some finish work and will have one more fire up there. Once I got that fire going and added the tree trunks to it, that was one hot fire.

The rain/snow you mentioned earlier. Is that your forecast? That's why I was wondering...thinking about rain/snow turning to slush on bare ground (mud.) I knew where you were in the landscaping projects. This would seem to delay it a few weeks.

Then again, I don't know how well you drain...and a half of a foot of snow is about 1/2" of rain.

Idle curiosity.

 

[TerryP]

I split all of the ash Wednesday and yesterday (ash is just about the easiest wood to split and makes decent firewood).

Just elbow grease and the axe?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Just elbow grease and the axe?

Yes, I have a six pound wood splitter/maul. The butt cut required a wedge and sledge for the initial split, but the rest of it just with the splitter.

That, and about ten ibuprofen.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

The rain/snow you mentioned earlier. Is that your forecast? That's why I was wondering...thinking about rain/snow turning to slush on bare ground (mud.) I knew where you were in the landscaping projects. This would seem to delay it a few weeks.

Then again, I don't know how well you drain...and a half of a foot of snow is about 1/2" of rain.

Idle curiosity.

We're not getting any snow, just a possibility in Atlanta, that's about as far west as it goes.

We have good drainage here. I've had three inches of rain since I burned it off.

 

[Krimson]

Just elbow grease and the axe?

Ash doesn't require much elbow grease, easiest splitting wood I've ever seen. My dad used to give me a pile to split when I was around 8 and I'd be giving him crap about being able to split mine in one swing and I was only using an axe and he had a maul. He let me feel good for a few years then one day said "Well come split this one big boy" axe barely sank into the oak and I still couldn't get it out. He then explained the differences in wood. Go try to bust sweet gum....

 

[64Tide]

Yes, I have a six pound wood splitter/maul. The butt cut required a wedge and sledge for the initial split, but the rest of it just with the splitter.

That, and about ten ibuprofen.

Have oak trees on my property that I'm taking down. Wood burning heater that is fantastic. So I hung up the maul and bought a table top, 2 way splitter (splits R-L and L-R) with log lift. Down to 5 ibuprofen now...

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Have oak trees on my property that I'm taking down. Wood burning heater that is fantastic. So I hung up the maul and bought a table top, 2 way splitter (splits R-L and L-R) with log lift. Down to 5 ibuprofen now...

The saying “cutting firewood warms you twice” didn’t consider the splitting part. Thrice. The oak on the ground I just split over the last hour, the ash on the yesterday, and ash and oak stacked from days before. The wild cherry to the right of my stack is only about ten percent of what I cut/split (rented a splitter for that), gave most of that away to buddies who smoke meat with it, and the rest to neighbors.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

The saying “cutting firewood warms you twice” didn’t consider the splitting part. Thrice. The oak on the ground I just split over the last hour, the ash on the yesterday, and ash and oak stacked from days before. The wild cherry to the right of my stack is only about ten percent of what I cut/split (rented a splitter for that), gave most of that away to buddies who smoke meat with it, and the rest to neighbors.

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Some fine fine work.

Took mine out when grandson moved off n lost my help.
I miss heating with wood. Big pot of boiled peanuts on top.

But ..... 30 years...... n propane is tosty .....but not
Ike wood...

 

[TerryP]

Ash doesn't require much elbow grease, easiest splitting wood I've ever seen

I've never had "the pleasure." The "cutting down trees" and "making firewood" thing happened one time when I was growing up. I was there to carry shit. The first time I had a fireplace was in the first house of mine. It was gas. The second? I bought all the wood.

Now, I have cut down trees since then. Chopped wood down to shavings. I held a license from the EPA for more than a decade for the tree part of the company I had in Memphis. Ain't no clue how they chop. It didn't matter at the time so I didn't think about soft/hard woods and chopping.

Literally. Today is the first day I've thought about splitting ash.

 

[TerryP]

 

[Krimson]

The saying “cutting firewood warms you twice” didn’t consider the splitting part. Thrice. The oak on the ground I just split over the last hour, the ash on the yesterday, and ash and oak stacked from days before. The wild cherry to the right of my stack is only about ten percent of what I cut/split (rented a splitter for that), gave most of that away to buddies who smoke meat with it, and the rest to neighbors.

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I liked splitting it more than cutting and loading it. Save some for those days you're stressed, great stress reliever.