I AM TRYING TO REACH WOOD CUSTOMERS. if you are searching for a wood guy and found me, I am suffering the same situation trying to find quality customers, sometimes people find me from searches, I need to be linked as much as I can so this happens.
if you know of a site that is used by people that need wood. please let me know so I can do it or take the creative license to hook me up.
thank you in advance. www.coxx.com alanj@coxx.com is my e mail,
I am working on setting up places for you to get wood quick, safe and convenient. we are using super saks. have them at several locations and are looking for new locations all the time.
if you have a business and wood like to do wood this way. please contact me . if you are up north for the week end with a vehicle that can take a sak home with you. we can put one in your truck in a matter of minutes
if you are a semi truck driver we can do a load of wood several ways if we are notafied early enough or just want a couple saks to take back home.. we have LOTS of saks with a 4x4x stack of wood in 16 in pieces in them.
we have a place in luther West. ( note– west of downtown IN luther but on the very west end by the tennis courts) on M63 west. 5706 E old m-63 49656 is the area code for your tom tom or e map.
we also have a new guy on 31 over my manistee, that is going to be doing the saks of wood and also have a new guy in howard city that is going to have loads of 8 foot wood on the trailer and also on the ground available for inspection. we will have these saks available for immediate loading.
if you are at the cabin and need a sak of wood delivered for the week end. we DO deliver these. it depends on your area who will do this for you. you as a customer need to call this number and find out where and who can deliver. 231-846-0346 . note. if you leave a message. please include your area code. say your number twice and please say it slow enough so I can understand it. note I have nextell-sprint. their reception and mine sucks. do not take for granted I got and understand your message. so many times I get a message so broken up no matter how many times I play it, not understandable no way. sooooooooooooooo please check back. I am a old man and sometimes just get over loaded. memory escapes me
we can easily deliver 3 of these bags. we stack the wood where ever you wood like it. we are working on a lift that will set the bag out and it will make perfect storage . take a look at the pictures.
231-846-0346 if you are reading this and have a pal that burns wood. please pass this webb address on to them please.
your support of the wood guy helps several familys survive this economy. it is very hard work. we all strive to get and process only the best wood for you and after you get and try a bagfull you will understand the difference in qualities of wood.
if you have a plae to sell wood and are interested in being part of this NEW way to handle processed wood. please call. it will be really convenient for all of us. no mess. sell by weight, clean. safe shipping. ect ect ect. al cox
dont even think about it why. they were mostly junk when they were new. now they are even worse after someone didnt treat the water and they are full of lime. it wood be like going to the scrap yard and finding a really nice looking hot water heater. it is full of lime. like grandmas tea kettle after a few years. paked with distiled lime that has hardened and is several inches thick on all the places that heat is transferred from the firebox.
I had a friend that took a torch and cut the top of his boiler off. jack hammered out about 3 wheel borrows of lime out of his boiler. still couldnt get to most of it. ask how much the boiler weighs new. take it to a scale somewhere and weigh the thing.
if it weighs several hundred lbs more than the original weight. there is your answer. almost all the people out there right now bought their boiler from a one time salesman that thought he could make a buck selling boilers or the other guy that is even worse yet. has a store and presents a big show and has a salesman that really talks what you want to hear.
you are simple. trusting and like a puppy trust the whole show to someone else and when its over you are stuck with some junk. dont know what you have to know to maintain one of these energy hogs, soon you will find out that slowley it takes more and more wood and you are getting less and less heat. ???? wtf is going on.
lemme tell ya. the lime is building up because you did not treat the water and have it tested regularly. used regular well water to fill it. more than likely are keeping it way too hot that is actually one of the biggest mistakes.
look at it like a car going 50 mps. it might get 20 mpg. it goes 70 it gets 15 mpg it goes 100 you might get 9mpg. heating the water to 130 which should be plenty you use way less wood than if you try to keep it at 170. it is almost impossible to attain and keep there. dont need that hot a water. total waste of wood.
hot water WILL NOT SUSPEND THE LIME. the lime settles out and condenses and stiks to the inside of the boiler. anywhere and everywhere. craigs list and e bay is full of used boilers and the list now will explode because thousands of people have NOT taken care of the water correctly.
this is a science folks. guys spend a life time going to school to be a boiler specialist, they spend their entire life trying to understand the mechanics of what happens to heated water. i am telling you it is a serious thing to fool with. the one thing I know is how much I DONT know.
I understand grandmas tea kettle and how heavy it got. same same sailor. BE REALLY CAREFULL WITH YOUR NEW BOILER, you must get a grip on this piece of information or it will be financially disasterous. FINANCIALLY DISASTROUS. get it. do not waste your time on a used boiler. al cox. 231-846-0346 www.coxx.com
UP DATE 1-18-12 they are out there on the net and starting to show up more and more. used cheap boilers. be carefull. these things will adopt you and next thing you know you will be chained up like in the dark ages. al
I delivered a load over by clare to a great big two story house that had several chiminies stikin out of the roof. the people were amish and this wood was for the wood stoves. i delivered it down behind the barn. there was a big long dumpster that has a lot of doors down each side. it was about a 20 yard tub. after they paid me and left I had nose trouble and really wondered why amish would have a dumpster that big. so when they werent looking i opened the door and looked in. the thing was full of. ( get this ) empty gallon tin cans of thank you brand pie filling. frozen bread dough wrappers. empty cardboard boxes from pie crusts. sugar and cinnimon bags. welllllllllllllllllllll for the unknowing of you. around clare are all these horse and buggys selling home baked goods.. __________ more to this story _ oh yeah,,,,, I was invited in by this couple after i delivered a load of wood. i have been going there a long time. she gave me a piece of cherry pie. it reminded me of that dumpster full of thank you brand pie filling ( you know the one—- 22 cherries and almost 4 quarts of red colored corn starch ____ ) ya that one. well I let my mouth get going and I told her the story about the dumpster and what I had seen. and then added. ( you know. some husband bought one of those pies and took it home. stuk it under his old ladys nose and said. here is a pie. ))) hheee heee heeeee. this lady straightened up. didnt take her eyes off of me. pointed at her husband and said these words ( that m…..f….. did that very thing to me. ) his face got red. it was kinda quiet except for me choking. dammit. they havent called me bak. gotta remind myself to keep my yap trapped. jeezeee
took a load to a amish guy real early in the morning. it was still dark. unloaded and went to the barn. met the guy. he was milking. I asked him if he had a cow I could milk that wouldnt kik my head off. reason I ask is those cows are just as protective of their personal parts as most women and strange cold hands will get a serious reaction. he said. this one right here. soooooooooooooooooooo I took the stool. the pail. sat down and got personal with a big ashyre (sp) anyway. the smell and sounds of that barn took me bak to when i was little with my grandparents. I felt like I was 8 years old again. it was so sweet. when I got done i had a full pail of milk with a nice head on it. when I turned around there was 5 amish kids standing there in a row like stair steps. mouths wide open as were their eyes. handed them the pail of milk. got up. gave them the stool. went over by the dad. one of them said something in german to the dad. he started laughing.. the kid wanted to know how in the world a truck driver ever learned how to milk a cow. by hand yet. in 54 I was doing 8 in the morning and 8 at night. I could fill the cats mouth and his ears with milk from 12 feet away. used to spray it toward the cat. he would start liking. close his eyes and just get soaked. if i took the stream up. he stood up. how in hell he knew where the stream was going is amazed me. always figured out that his whiskers were like directional detectors for flying milk. any of you guys or girls ever do that. what a hoot
I was driving down a dirt road and this big squirrel jumped into the middle of the road. i blew the air horn. he turned around and went back. i blew the horn. just a short toot. he turned around and went back. after a dozen of these i was getting close so he headed down the road straight away from me. every time I tooted the horn he went a little faster. then started slowing down. i was really slow. just idling along. he was doingabout 10 miles a hour. I chased thatsquirrel almost a quarter a mile. he finally had enough. jumped over a little bush and tried going up a tree but was so tired he just hung there. lot better than his buddy did. i was coming thrugh hastings. saw a squirrel cross under my truck. didnt see him come out the other side but they are that quick. when i got home. there he was. he had jumped in the middle of the wheel. he was froze solid and when I stopped he fell out and was in a perfect half circle. was rocking back and forth. my dog thought he was still a working model and went off on the squirrel. NOT a good day.
had this load on my truck all winter. went out after frost laws. it was grassy and warm. home from fla. fired up the truk. there was a robin raisin hell around me as I was checking tires and stuff. i fired up the truck. got air and headed for rockford. got home. parked in about the same place. as I was getting my stuff out of the truck i saw her fly under the rear of the trailer. sooooooooooooooo i walked back and there on top of the spring shackles. in the middle of the 4 bolts sticking up was this robins nest with4 little robins with most of their feathers on. she was giving them worms.. i couldnt believe it. those little birds had 150 miles on them and they hadnt flown a inch. wondered what they told their mom. mom . we went to rockford. no shit. we did we did. we aint lyin. I took that nest over to a old piece of machinery. put it up inside a pully. she finishhed the job of raising them there.. NO problem
the customer was paying me. saw Dr, Rooks on his check. from s gr. I asked him that since the rush of wood burners and chain saw users was on did he see many chain saw accidents. he said. I wouldnt see then any way unless they did it on purpose. wtf. I said. he said. ya. I am a psychiatrist.. eee eee eee oh yeh.
I was stuck in the sand and the customer and i had been digging. got some carpet. worked for 4 solid hours getting the truck out. this lady was standing there. I was on my knees with the shovel. her husband was there. she said. ” have you ever been stuck so bad you never got out?” I looked at her and said. ” yup. still there. I am just a figment of your imagination ” her husband almost spit his teeth out. he busted out laughing like ahyeana.. after he got his composure he said ” oh. i am gonna pay for this ” that was even funnier yet. i still yuk over that one.
my dog rode with me for 12 years. he was black. hated the sun on him and his seat. that was black too sooooooooooo when i parked and the sun was on his side ofthe truck he wood come over and lay on t he floor by the pedals when I was out of the truck.
i was sitting at the picknick table getting my check from the lady. the truck was about 100 feet away. i heard the motor rev up big time. buster had stood on the gas pedal. and then again acouple of times. the truck sounded like it was getting my attention by revving up in a kind of pattern . it sounded like lets go lets go lets go. hurry up hurry up.
well buster knew he had dome something but i whistled really hard and hollered at him to knock it off. i saw him getup int he pass seat. the lady looked at me with her hands on herface. with this most awestruck look onher face. she said. oh my god. i cant believe it. that truck actually listened to you.
it took me a second and this was really hard to keep a straight face. I said. see that dog . he was on the floor and stepped on the gas pedal walking around down there. i whisteled to get his attention to get off the gas pedal. he is in the seat now. i can see him get back up there she did not see the dog. i then old her about my dog. then she saw him
then she put her head in her hands and said. oh my god. PLEASE don’t tell my husband.. never did. lady you are so precious. if you ever read this i cherish this memory ,
i was early to customer in frankfort. he worked in grocery store. i stopped by and he came out. his first load from me. i said hows this look. he said great. you can take the other guy his wood and bring me mine . i will be ready in half a hour. i said. this is 10 cord. its all yours. he started swearing . i said. what what what.. he said. ia have been buying half that for 10cord. untill you have seen 10 cord you dont know. he lives on 22 about 2 miles N of frankfort on the west side of the road directly across from the little barn that sells baked goods
it only takes me 1 min and 40 seconds to unload. this customer has had me there many times. he always watches. one time he cleaned of the tail end of the trailer to write the check he took his hand and wiped the dust off and looked at me and said. ” I love this trailer” the way he said it. how many times have you had someone come and put his hands on your tractor or mower and say something that cool and mean it. this trailer is awesome but to have someone appreciate it like he did. that kind of thing is way better than money.
I went to craig woods house down by ionia yesterday. got there it was dark no snow really tight yard. drove in. baked up. had to jocky several times to get trailer turned and behind me. baked in and unloaded. he said. damn you are good. in the dark. I said. been doing this since I was 8, step dad was way better than I am. if i cant get er done by now. better give up. answers the phone wood eye 1 or something like that. i had throat cancer and he talks like me. got a shovel full of gravel in our throat.
I got supper on. get outa here. what a hoot. awesome customer.
backed inthis garden. it was hot . dry in the fall. customer said to drive through the vegetables. there were a hundred spaghetti squashes. basketball size. thought it was going to be fun. drive my truk through the veggies. well it was payback from hell. i got in part way. when my drivers hit those sacks of slick.. get this. a spaghetti squash is a serious stucktruck trick. i had to shovel every single piece of them out of the track. sand the path and take my fingers and dig every piece of that slime out of the treads.
i had a full load on. could spin the tires in 4th gear make clouds of blue smoke and not move a single inch. the instant the tires got on a single piece of squash. i was fkd. no go joe. the absolutely worst i ever got stuck. hard ground. a spaghetti squash still gives me chills.
It was a driveway down by Holland. guy said to back up past the gravel with the trailer and push it off. the instant that traier came off the gravel it went into peat. the tail board was almost flat with the ground. it was almost 4 ft into the earth. did that ever look silly. wished i had a camera for that day.
took a monster tractor . i did push the wood off but that also went in pretty nice.. hay. its your property. how did I know.
delivered a load by Hastings. unloaded. lady came out she was walking around the pile. smelling of it. touching it. rubbing her face on the logs. putting her lips on them. like a cat. all over that wood. even rubbed her hands and body against it. i asked her husband if there was something wrong with the wood. he said nope. she loves her fireplace. worked at a hospitalal as a trauma nurse. it was her relaxation thing. I still can see her making love to that pile of wood. she actually loved that wood. just like a cat. it was amazing to watch.
had a guy live up by rapid city on a hill. a monster of a hill. he asked what i thought of the road coming up. i said. well. I kinda felt sorry for the billy goat that i passed laying on the side of it with the broke legs and the oxygen mask. other than that it was pretty cool.
I had unloaded. my sled was at the back of the trailer. guy was talking to me. he said. my 2 year old has climbed on your trailer . please don’tfreak out when you see him. just act natural. I turned around. there was a 2 year old standing on TOP of that sled. it was a 4×4 box beam and he wasn’t holding onto nothing. just standing there looking up at the sky. he turned around and came down like a monkey. to the bak of the truck down he came. to the front. up and on it again. all over the place. the guy said that one day he heard t he kid and couldn’t find him. looked up and at the very top of a 60 ft tv tower that is screwed to the side of his house was this kid. he had climbed althe way to t he top.. kid has a unusualal name. thor. axle zeuse or someting like that . amazing.
jim ashley from scotts . about 80 uses a little chainsaw. kids do a lot but he does too. had a stroke. brain tumor. left side all paralyzed. i said. well jim. looks to me like you are all “right ” now.bought his old minneapolis moline combine from him. totally awesome combine. use it every year. beautiful machine. just awesome
the fuel is starting to burn us up in this business. save on my advertising costs. please share my webb site with people that need firewood. thank you. al
QUALITY QUALITY QUALITY and you can create quality. first buy clean,fresh cut logs, or logs that come from a producer that has put clean green logs in a pile , oak dosnt matter how long as long as it has been stacked where the wind can get through the pile. hard maple is a major problem storing it outside, the elements promote decay almost immediately. two years in the woods and the stuff is almost dust. oak lasts the most outsdie but should be covered with black covering. just the top. side must let air through. MUST let air through. maple should be inside. it will keep forever INSIDE
when you get fresh cut logs the minerals,alcohols and all the other factors that make good wood are in the product.
getting wood from a guy that goes out into the woods and cuts up dead wood can be disastrous for you. it will look like wood. feel like wood but the fungi ,bugs,rain and what ever else wanted what was in the wood that they could use. they did. and now you got a piece of wood that is a optical delusion. nutten honey is what it is good for nutten.
i had a guy tell me that he was freezin. stove full of wood. lots of fire but no heat. how in hell could this be. wellllllllllllllll all the good stuff had been leached out of it. its like this. now get a handle on this little comparison. it will really really help. you too girls. a horse eats oats. as they go through his digestive track the bacteria and what ever digest those oats. they take all the nutrients out of them. the horse dosnt chew these oats up for the most part. he just eats them and when they come out of the horse they look exactly like they did when they went in. HOWEVER. now they are what the rest of the stuf he ate is when they come out. horse shit. they still look like oats. but. another optical delusion. aint oats. day be orse poop. wood. you got it. same same. it be just like those used oats. so when you get a load of wood and you dont know the guy. you be axinfor it. call someone that you know burns wood. someone that has been doing it for a few years or will give you a sample. no joke. i ask customers if they will let someone come over and look at a semi load of logs. i have a lot of loads that you c an see very well from the road. ask about that and feast your eyes on a pile. it will amaze you how much wood there is
bak to hot wood/cold wood-part of this could be your stove. a bad stove wont give you heat for anything. seriously. these home made boilers and wood digesters/incinerators. i had a lady that bought and installed this boiler. used 2 loads a year to heat a mid size house./log cabin thing the amish built. get this. sun was going down. i went in and she was paying me. had big nice windows on east and west side of the house. i saw this thin yellow line on the wall up high on the east side of the house. it was sunshine coming through a crack up high on the wall. no joke. the guys didnt calk one log. the place was a wooden whistle.
so dont blame the wood all the time. furnace that is totally wrong. wood with no heat left in it and a house that is not insulated and is a whistle.
ff. al cox. 231-846-0346
dry wood and I stress this big time. the ONLY way to get the great burn is with dry wood. for any producer to have dry wood it is VERY unusual. if wood is left in a pile anywhere, people (find) it. think because it has been there for a while that the wood has been abandon and there for ok to take it.
I had a load in the woods. hooked to the tractor and chained down. some week end campers came over from their property. got about 10 or so smaller logs off the top of the load and dragged them to their camp site.
when i got there monday they were gone of course but this is a example of what we are working with. soooooooooooooooo we do not leave wood anywhere unless it is absolutely necessary .
when producers load it and take it to their yard it takes money. adding to the cost. customers that wait untill november/december and are finally shure that winter is coming this year, then want dry wood. here is what I tell them. aint no easter bunny. no santa clause and no dry wood.
if you want dry wood and this is the only way you can insure that fact is buy it early. buy enough to be a year ahead. and be smart and stack it so when you use it the dry for next year isnt trapped in the shed behind the green wood you are going to put in there.
(side ways) stack it in rows from front to back or on either end of the shed. like the wind shield wiper. it goes bak and forth. NOT up and down. just be smart about it and do a wee bit of planning here.
frost laws—- these are load limits imposed on our trucks in the spring. when the earth under the black top is froze hard and the road way or black top is starting to unthaw. when something heavy goes over the top it rolls the top like a pie dough roller. it brakes the bond between the two and then the black top starts to crumble. that is what it is all about. the fines are there to make shure that dosnt happen or the truck can go with 35% less load and 35 mph max speed.
totally counter productive for us to even think of delivering wood in the spring. repeat “COUNTER PRODUCTIVE”
I dont do it. fyi. lack of planning on your part dont constitute an emergency on mine. delivered a load yesterday. 12/10/10 it was 9 degrees. used two 300 thousand btu salamanders . one on each side of my truk motor. left them there for a hour. started it. then spent two ours thawing out brakes that somehow had ice in the lines and the valves that let the air work were all locked up.
put those two heaters plus a propane fired weed burner that blows a blu flame 3 ft long and a foot wide under the trailer and flat out cooked everything for another house. had angle worms under there thinkin it was spring. thought i even saw a dandy lion starting to bloom. anyway. four solid hours of screwin with equipment. why.
cuz a guy discovered he was going to be serious short for the winter.
the one thing that kinda bugs me is nobody. absolutely no body wood do this for me. soooooooooooo as the wood guy that trys to get er done. please have it so when i walk outside and get in my truck with my cut offs on. and am delivering wood real early in the morning to avoid the heat of the day. oh boy. what a major difference it makes in my life. and in reality yours too. no plowing your location. I can maneuver really well and put the wood where you (need) it. not anyplace i can even remotely get it. oh yeah. much much better.
oh. putting on chains is a sweet deal to. a absolute necessary act to go anywhere when you have 60 thousand pls of wagon and wood behind your horse. here is a couple of picture of a little 300$ mistake i made when I thought the drive was wider than it was because of a (optical delusion.) the snow on the weeds is the same snow that was on the drive way but the weeds were in a 3 ft ditch and it just looked like drive way. should have got my lazy ass out of the truck and looked but totally looked cool.
all my customers that order their wood and have it a year ahead do so much better.
as for the money. what are you going to do with the money in the bank and the boiler is out of fuel. supply changes dramatically at times. this new ( economy downturn ) they call it. I call it a flat ass depression. has removed so many producers from the supply side it is not funny.
they are disappearing at a high rate of speed and more people are switching.. ( PAY ATTENTION TO THIS) SUPPLIERS ARE DISSAPEARING. not good. in the town of luter there were 10 producers. now we have 2. a one horse guy and a monster producer. that can do wood like crazy but they do pine. where the money is. when they go to oak. its a runaway coal train so i gotta have my duks in a row and blow it outa there as fast as i can.
customers need to be ready and able to take it on sudden notice when this happens. when you order ask about timing.. some are retired and a 24 hr notice is fine.
sometimes i have a customer that is too something and i cant get in theri driveway. something. i call the next guy in the area. think and plan for this. it helps the whole deal. communication, cooperation works all the time
it is kind of a science or maybe luck doing this right, USE THE ELEMENTS folks. 1. wind. especially the wind. stack it on a pallet or the bottom row with the round part down and spaced a few inches apart so the air and moisture can get away from the pile.
when wind blows through the pile , there is a venturie effect. the air looses heat gets cooler and piks up moisture. (now pay attention here boy) aquires moisture. so when it comes through the first pile it is cool and damp. so you want space between piles. preferrably stacked North and South so the prevailing wind will (continually dry your wood.) the rows must have enough space so this heavy damp air can get away. the ends of the rows must be open. imagine it like a invisable river of damp air. ( which it is ) that must flow away because it is cooler and heavier it is on the ground crawling like a beast trying to get away. if it can not. it will simply condense and soak into the bottom wood or ground. perfect for thirsty bugs. (PLEASE REALLY PAY ATTENTION TO THIS INFORMATION ON STACKING WOOD. OLD TIMERS KNEW ALL ABOUT THIS. THIS COMES FROM MY GRANDFATHER. I STILL HAVE HIS SAWS FROM THE HAY DAY OF TREE HARVESTING IN MI
2. more on the wind. when air blows through a hole here are some serious things that take place. i repeat. it picks up moisture. so when you build a wood shed, a sheet metal building is absolutely the worst thing that you can do. it is sort of ok for a roof. kinda ok as long as there is plenty of air space around the edge of it so NO air is trapped in the building. no sides are ok
the old wood sheds had boards spaced about a inch apart.. this promoted the evaporation of the air. I have been to auction sales of old farms and the wood has been in there for 40years in the back. it is as hard as stone and perfect. I mean perfect condition. so hard a bug couldnt eat it for no reason
3. air is the key. I found a slab wood pile from a old sawmill. huge, large slabs of logs. had been there for 20 /50 years. it was perfect. the wood was bullet proof. NO bugs. staked on sand. pure dry sand. no roof. but where the wind could move the moisture away from it.
if you can stak it on cement, rocks or bug proof medium. I just saw a novel idea. the guy had put a layer of his ashes under the wood pile. I know for a fact NO freakin bug is going to crawl through that stuff to get to the wood. if I were to pour cement slab I wood put down about two inches of ashes. get them wet and pour the cement over them. take that bugs.
this reminds me of the guy that lived in a condo and was lonly. wanted a pet really bad but rules said no pets. he goes to the pet store anyway and asks what can he have for some companionship that woodnt be considered a pet.
pet store guy says. I have just the thing. I have this centipede. if fact the thing can talk.
i gotta see this the guy says. meets the centipede. they hit it off. home with him the centipede goes.
they get along just fantastic. one day the guy is going to go down town and asks the bug if he wants to go along. no answer. asks again. no answer. finally he walks over to the bugs little box he lives in. piks up the lid and says. hay. for the third time I say. I am going down town. do you want to go along.
the bug says. and for the third time I say. hold your horses I told you I am putting on my shoes.
so where were we. HMMMMMM dammit. i hate digressing.
oh. air under pile. stacked N/S so wind blows through ( I KEEP HARPING ON THE WIND. ITS CHEAP. EFFECTIVE, AND THE ONLY ANSWER ”
covered with blak plastic or sheet metal or use the top flat piece up. roundpiece down and make a shingle roof using the wood. one side of the pile higher so water runs off and drips on the edge of the pile instead of soaking in and thrugh the pile.
do battle with the bugsbefore they get in the stack. not after..
put the roof bigger then the pile. make it so the air can flow through. if you must use plastic or tarps to cover the wood. do NOT USE CLEAR plastic.
absolutely no light penetrating plastic. have you ever heard of a terrerieum. ( sp ) hay. i am the wood guy. not a freakin librerian. hell i cant even spell it. either one for that matter. i gets smallwords. those big uns kik my ass.any.way. you know. that little glass bowl with the clear plastic over it thatpeople have on their coffee table.
guess what. clear plastic does the same th ing to your wood pile.. creating a perfect moisture suppply for bugs. its the buggs and fungus thatyou must be at war with all the time
you need to do this especially if you are going to leave your wood pile there for several years. I personally just discovered a termite problem behind the wall from a building that i put strand board for wind and structure then nailed ruff cut wood over it for siding. the termites got behind the siding and went all over the osb and ate about 1/4 in off the face of the osb. came up through the dirt. in they went. the dirt is the key. they must have a medium they can live in. ashes or I am thinking chloride flakes. no bug can crawl through that stuff. and it is simply serious salt.
if you put down plastic and pour concrete over that. guess what. concrete craks. they eat through the plastic. they are in and what you have done is create a perfect barrier for their good.
we use pallets and have a tracctor to move them. we stack them all over. sometimes inside. I have a hill that is close to thehouse. i put them in rows out there for a whole winter and let them freeze drry. works awesome.
i took a pallet of green oak just for the hell of it and put it on a hill out back.right up on top where the wind just whistled all winter. next spring that stak of wood was craked and totally dry
here is how we handle our cut and split for drying and our personall use. makes it so hand. take it from the barn to the garage where our boiler is inside. it goes from the splitter to the boiler. the tractor with the forks is the key.
231-846-0346, i am whipped. goin bak to bed
lady size pieces is a term we use to help you understand that out wood is split small enough for anyone handle. we have anysize wood you can ask for. we do special orders like small round for wood fired kiln’s or kitchen wood stoves. also birch. we hand cut and process that individually. protecting the paper so it looks good in your fireplace.
we ship or deliver anywhere. if you are reading our ad in the paper and have come here. this is how we handle it. pre measured. if you want to pick it out of our pickup with a fork lift and keep the sack. a small 10 dollar charge for the sak is added.
it keeps the wood perfectly as they are pretty much weather proof. they do not ventilate well so if you get water in them it is not good.
I am looking for the best wood pile picture that I can share with the rest of you. this was sent to my from a customer. I have seen several awesome piles but didnt have camera with me. one customer made a square box and it was air tight. stacked wood and it was air tight and perfectly flat. another made circles that looked like question marks. please sent them to alanj@coxx.com 231-846-0346
the new boiler or hot water heater as they truely are. will have new standards. mainly burning clean. to do this they need DRY I REPEAT DRY WOOD. as it should be now but these boiler salesman tell people that green is ok. then the guy next door is rightfully pissed off because now his house is staring to smell like a railroad tie facility. especially the down wind guy. there are only a very few boilers made in the usa that will even remotely qualify for this perverbial blessing. this was done in a very controled environment i am shure. like you are going to have the perfect barrometric pressure. the super dried wood that they are expecting you to have. and you will have to have it because it will NOT work if you dont.
the european boilers especially the ones that use refractory and do what they call gassification.. they do work. seen them in action. ten times better than any usa made treasure.
I have hauled wood to some of these boilers. the ones with no grates and the guy has a mountain of ashes next to the boiler out back and half of the pile is charcoal..
these gassification units condense a semi load of wood into about a barrel of sand. thats right. almost nothing is left. they burn at over 2000 degrees..
do your homework.. dont be wasting your money. especialy on these home made dog houses that will suk you dry. i have a old chappee made in sweden. cast iron. awesome littleboiler. in my garage. 4 armloads a dy. approx 12 pcs of wood gets the job done.
i have a customer that takes 2 semi loads a year to a wood master. they named that bitch right
I have a customer by tc that has a 15,000 $ furnace soap stone from ireland. uses about 5 to 7 pickup loads a year. heats a huge log home. a monster. the thing has a firebox about the size of a bushell basket. every single bty is IN the house. awesome. totaly awesome.
he has trouble keeping his wood that long. a load is at least 5 years yup. 5 years out of a load. it can be done. it is being done but not with those wood suckers. absolutely criminal how much wood they waste.
my neighbor has a ceramic firebox on his gassification unit. it is white inside when it is burning.
WHITE HOT, thats over 2000 degrees. lets see one of those little stainless steel beasts do that. hmmmmmmmmmm dont think so
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