Racing the Storm
This morning, very light snow (not enough to stick) was falling when I went out to wave at Amtrak coming through. Little bits of cold rain, sleet, or snow fell off and on throughout the morning. There was a break in the weather and around 1:30 PM we decided to take a shot at getting that firewood unloaded.
Opened the Wood Box as Lisa climbed up into the utility trailer and started unwrapping the pallet.
Here is the pallet of 390 Pres-to-Logs unwrapped. Lisa started handing them to me, four logs at a time, and I carried them over into the wood box.
We made really good progress on this, despite the cold.
Possibly these threatening storm clouds, which dropped down onto the mountains north of Fernley and started heading toward us, gave us some incentive to get a move on.
It took us just about one hour to shift all of the logs into the wood box.
Just as we were putting the sheets of plastic over the wood and getting the box closed, the snow/sleet mix started again. It still wouldn't stick (the air temperature was 4°C), fortunately. Lisa moved the trailer over back behind the house, chained it to the fence to discourage people from trying to haul it away, and got the pickup truck back into the garage.
So that's the firewood situation settled for another month. After I get back from SMOFCon, we will need to see about getting another pallet. Possibly before them I will check with them to make sure that they've ordered more pallets of wood. If we had a place to keep the pallets, we'd order more than one of them, but we have no way to unload an entire pallet at once for ground storage. Even if we had a forklift, it would probably get bogged down in the soft dirt in the East Lot.
Opened the Wood Box as Lisa climbed up into the utility trailer and started unwrapping the pallet.
Here is the pallet of 390 Pres-to-Logs unwrapped. Lisa started handing them to me, four logs at a time, and I carried them over into the wood box.
We made really good progress on this, despite the cold.
Possibly these threatening storm clouds, which dropped down onto the mountains north of Fernley and started heading toward us, gave us some incentive to get a move on.
It took us just about one hour to shift all of the logs into the wood box.
Just as we were putting the sheets of plastic over the wood and getting the box closed, the snow/sleet mix started again. It still wouldn't stick (the air temperature was 4°C), fortunately. Lisa moved the trailer over back behind the house, chained it to the fence to discourage people from trying to haul it away, and got the pickup truck back into the garage.
So that's the firewood situation settled for another month. After I get back from SMOFCon, we will need to see about getting another pallet. Possibly before them I will check with them to make sure that they've ordered more pallets of wood. If we had a place to keep the pallets, we'd order more than one of them, but we have no way to unload an entire pallet at once for ground storage. Even if we had a forklift, it would probably get bogged down in the soft dirt in the East Lot.