Around Waynos house

[wayno]

I split 4 of the rounds up so I could stack to the roof of the wood shed, I am going to get another load this evening.

[wayno]

I went and got another load, it was not as heavy but it filled the truck(forgot to take photo(insert sad face here)), truck drove better, didn't wander like it did yesterday.
Here is a photo of the wood stacked with the other wood, it was 14 pieces this time, 4 were smaller, only a couple feet round.


I am going for another load tomorrow, $60.00 and he loads it, to me that seems like a screaming deal.

I just looked at the photo, how did I get that one up 3 layers high, I cannot remember doing that???

[BLUE]

Holy crap



I don’t think I’ve worked that hard myself in a while

[wayno]

Well I hauled the second heaviest load today of 3 loads total, and I dealt with the largest rounds so far, the one in the front of the row is 43 inches across I bet it weighs more than 600lbs, the one in front of it fell over and it was heavy when I lifted it back up, I got both of them out of the truck on their edges, I shook my head when the one fell over.


The larger ones are not really that hard to split up, I suppose I should have just left it on the ground and split it up in the morning, but I wanted to close the shed door as the wind is blowing here and I didn't want the door damaged by the wind.

[wayno]

I used a splitting wedge on that big one, it likely took an hour to get it split up, it just didn't want to come apart, so the next big one, the next one after that one, and the one up front on the right with the big knots I used a chainsaw, the 2 larger ones I quartered and the one with the big knots I cut in half, I almost have 3 cord in now, going next Monday to get another load.
It's kinda dark in my wood shed.

[DRIVEN]

Gonna be another toasty.

[wayno]

I just want to get in as much firewood as I can at these prices, I can likely get up to 12 cord into the wood shed, I can spread out another 4 cord around in other places, I feel bad sometimes, likely because of being dehydrated, I checked my blood pressure a while ago and it was 96/64, that is the best I have seen it in a long time, but it has been a long time since I worked this hard.
Fact is I only put about 3 hours total into each load which is a short enough time to keep me from having joint pain, I leave my house at 6pm and get there at 6:30, he loads the rounds, I drive home and unload it and roll it in the wood shed, I normally finish and am in the house by around 8:45pm, I am into it less than 3 hours, but lately I have been getting up and splitting some of the rounds so I can stack wood to the ceiling, don't know how much time I have into that, but it is harder than unloading rounds and rolling them into the wood shed, that large round took me an hour to split, using the chain saw cut that time in half, for some reason the 2 large rounds(40+ inches round) didn't split apart like the smaller rounds, the wood didn't release clean like the 30 something inch rounds do, it was a fight to get the pieces apart, even after I quartered the 2nd large round with the chain saw it still didn't want to split, fact is the splitting maul kept bouncing off the wood instead of going in, maybe it was not as dry as the smaller stuff.
I had a guy leave me a $100.00 deposit on the flatbed and TommyLift, I have not heard form him since, I think I am going to call him and ask what is going on, I have his number, I hope this is not some kind of scam.

[DRIVEN]

No matter how you get it moved and split, looks like hard work.

[jtinluvr]

I’m obviously not a doctor but 96/64 seems pretty low. Isn’t 120/80 considered normal? I had an issue last year with a new med the doc put me on. I was at work and I started getting blurry vision, lightheaded and a little disoriented. It started once it got hot outside and I was doing strenuous stuff. Job took me to a clinic and they told me it was probably because my blood pressure was low at something like 90/70. I was better after a snack and the drive back to work but they sent me home for the day with pay. It happened a couple more times, although not as bad, until it was out of my system. Been fine since.

[wayno]

It depends on who you talk to, at Kaiser they have you on blood pressure pills at 120/80, and they put everyone on Statin drugs, I believe it is policy as that is how they make money, and they will say shit like you are going to die if you don't take them.
I don't really make much money anymore, so I have crap doctors that look at me like I am some kind of sheep, if I have an opinion they lose interest in me, my blood pressure was 90 something/60 something a lot when I was on their(Kaiser) pill and they seemed fine with that.
Yesterday was hot(87 high), in the middle of the day I didn't feel that great, but I felt better when I came in and drank a bunch of water/juice.
Another thing to keep in mind here is if I had not been working so hard for the last several days my blood pressure would not be that low, if I sit around a lot(not exercising) it goes up 120 something over 70 something and I have to sit around watching TV for a while to get it that low, I have not seen this low of blood pressure since I took that last Statin they gave me Jan. 27, 2020, it has taken over 2 months to get it back down, right now I am happy with 96/64 and this is why, high blood pressure makes hairline cracks in your blood vessels/arteries/veins, the little clotting platelets attack them cracks to stop leaks like when you cut yourself, then more and more cracks form because of high blood pressure until you get a clot and have a heart attack or stroke, cholesterol isn't really what kills you, high blood pressure kills you, I am not a doctor, but I have learned a lot about pills and how the body works because of the side effects from taking them pills, the last cholesterol test I took it was almost 300, but I cannot take their pills as the side effects I have could likely kill me, I ended up in an urgent care office because of that last Statin they gave me with blood pressures of 160/90 and 158/98, I am not going to take Statin's anymore.
I have a hard time believing anything doctors tell me anymore, I tell them about side effects and they act like I said nothing, they are the doctor and I am a sheep.

[jtinluvr]

Don’t get me started on Kaiser. The primary care there was always questionable to me. The final straw was a couple years back I was not doing good. Went to see my primary and was told I had acid reflux. A few more visits with worsening condition and I finally just went to the emergency room. Long story short I was admitted with pneumonia. I felt I was treated fairly well in the hospital but the other parts of Kaiser are weak. Also, been complaining for years about shoulder pain and was told it was an impingement and to do PT. Did that for a while with no improvement and asked for a MRI. Got an X-ray which didn’t show anything. Well, after the pneumonia debacle I changed from the HMO plan to a PPO. Primary care is better with Blue Cross and I had no issue getting a MRI which shows I have a torn rotator cuff. No amount of PT will fix that Kaiser.

[wayno]

Well I was lucky, I was sent to the nearest Hospital(Peace Health) when I walked in the Kaiser clinic having a heart attack, it took them 2 tries to open the clogged blood vessel up enough to put in a stint, I had a 22 hour heart attack, they said it was my second heart attack and I now had more heart damage, every time I have an EKG done now I warn the nurses not to freak out as I don't want to end up in the emergency room again over an existing condition like I did before, if they had sent me to a Kaiser hospital I am pretty sure they would have cut me open and I would likely be dead now.
They were all ranting about how good of a doctor I had at that clinic, I call him a witch-doctor/quack now, the last time I seen him he stood there and asked me what life altering issue I had today, when he seen the x-rays of my knees he actually ran away from me, I had to chase him down the halls in front of the nurses to ask questions, I never seen that quack again, I now enjoy asking people that have him as their doctor if he has ever helped them, they look at me stunned, without waiting for an answer I suggest they find another doctor.
That quack didn't care about the pain I was having in my joints either, I finally got to a specialist about my foot pain, the x-rays showed I am bone on bone in 2 joints, all she had to suggest is that I wear better shoes, what helped a lot was to not take that Statin I was on, but I had to fall off a roof to make the step myself on figuring out which pill was the issue, it was the Statin, the first one I quit taking as I figured it would not kill me right away, I could hardly walk sometimes when I was on that Statin, now I am doing alright, I cannot run or take long walks, but I can ride a bike just about anywhere I want without pain and walk around Datsun shows taking a break every once in a while.
I don't have Kaiser anymore.

[Taterhead]

Damn it Wayno. Didn’t know y’all had redwoods there

[wayno]

We have some pretty big fir trees, but you have to go into the middle of nowhere to find them anymore, rich people cut them all down, that is how they got rich.
I believe this wood is from the guys property, it appears to me that he is not going to have that much more to get rid of so I am getting as much as I can while the getting is good.

[wayno]

I went for wood again today, forgot to take a photo when I got home and unloaded a couple pieces before I remembered, I cut my own wood into 37" length pieces and he loaded it, the biggest one broke into 3 pieces when I rolled it off the truck.




I finished cutting them in half when I got home and got them in the shed, ten 37" pieces onto the truck, 20 pieces into the shed, I think it was my 2nd heaviest load, that first load was heavy.




Going again Friday, I will split up enough to fill the 2nd row to the ceiling, I think I have almost 4 cord for $240.00, a few of these were green(smaller stuff), but the rest is supposed to have been on the ground for a couple years, he has half a dozen 40 to 60 foot high 3'+ round trees that have been stripped of limbs and topped standing on his property right now, they are also firewood but have not been felled yet.

[BLUE]

All I gotta say is.....I got a hernia just looking at those pictures. Wow...

Also the height on your 521 looks so very very useful...

[wayno]

I made the bed as low as I could get it so I would not have to lift shovels of debris or the wheel barrow up very high when at a job.

I have thought about the hernia thing while doing this, those rounds are not lifted up there, there is no way I could lift them, I put that board in the photo up onto the end round and roll the rounds up on the board, getting them 3 high is hard sometimes.

[wayno]

I made another step towards making my garden larger again, I moved my small shed over about 10 feet under the neighbors very large maple tree that shades everything, this shed is 10' by 12', it did not move easily as I moved it complete without taking it apart, it took a couple hours to get it that 10 feet and a few more getting it supported underneath.
I also split up the rounds I needed to stack the wood to the ceiling of the shed, I figured out I have about 3.6 cord in the shed that I have bought from this guy, the two rows are around 22 feet long, 7 feet high, and 3 feet wide(rounds are cut 18" wide), I am supposed to go for another load tomorrow.



I have to decide if I am going to retire from my business, the State of Washington says if I use a pressure washer I have to be a contractor and have a bond and insurance, I do pressure wash peoples driveways and I wash a few peoples houses(from the ground, no climbing ladders anymore washing houses), I likely make more pressure washing compared to cleaning out gutters, but it's starting to not look so good on paper.

[wayno]

I made tire holders today for the shed so I don't have to move a bunch of tires to get to the ones I want.


I made racks on both sides.


I am heading out for another almost cord of wood in a while.

[wayno]

Another load at the house unloaded, but it got dark so I stopped using the chainsaw, I have been cutting them about 37 inches and he loads them, then when I get home I cut them in half, the chain is getting dull, I think I have one sharp chain left but it is the last time on that chain as there is hardly any metal left to sharpen.
The load.






I will try using this chain on it again tomorrow, I have two 30"+ inch rounds to cut in half,. if the saw won't go thru it then I guess I will change out the chain, I suppose I could bring along the other saw with a fresh chain also but it only has A 24" bar, my good one has a 36" bar, but they are both Husqvarna chain saws.