{"id":4509,"date":"2019-10-22T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2019-10-22T22:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T05:54:36","slug":"oct-22-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2019\/10\/22\/oct-22-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 22 2019 Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.” <\/strong><\/p>\n

Bill Watterson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Solar? nu uh<\/p><\/div>\n

As you can see my trip to the doctors has been delayed another day. That has turned into more rain and probably freezing rain on the highways. I need to chop wood anyways, another arctic blast is on its way. I would like to get ahead and have a little surplus in case of, emergencies.<\/p>\n

I learned a few years ago when I slipped on some ice and broke three ribs but still had to chop wood. That was fun.<\/p>\n

With my ribs taped up best I could, I managed to drag my electric splitter inside and bring large full-size logs into the fire room and split them including one log that had ten thousand carpenter ants inside it. I got most of them but some did escape and went on to do structural damage to my house.<\/p>\n

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Big bitey things<\/p><\/div>\n

So that is why I need the surplus and many times last winter after blizzards and deep drifting snow, I was not able to reach the woodpile even after hours of trying to dig through the snow. The pictures below are from a March blizzard. This is coming again soon.<\/p>\n

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Ice drifts after a blizzard<\/p><\/div>\n

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4 hours of slow chewing with my snowblower to get this far.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0Update:<\/strong> waited till after four pm to chop wood. According to the forecast it was supposed to stop raining, and it did but turned into blowing snow. I put on some safety glasses to keep it out of my eyes and head out to chop. I cut up a log that was 6ft long and about 14″ in diameter yesterday. So I chose that one. It turned out to be rotten and hard to chop. I go it done, loaded my axes and made the 80-yard trek with the wet heavy wood, up the ramp into the house, and I am still alive to tell about it.<\/p>\n

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6ft (1.83 m) long log 14in dia and a lot of swinging turns it into this<\/p><\/div>\n

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Might too late to get this trailer load of garbage out may have to wait till spring. Hard to see the mini blizzard going on<\/p><\/div>\n

I found out the pain in my shoulder will interfere with the last push up the ramp, I will be careful of that during the winter months to make sure I don’t have the heavy loads of wood fall back on me.<\/p>\n