Kevin Standlee: Fandom Is My Way of Life

With the warmer weather, Lisa has had more of an opportunity to clear the pile of pallets on which the Press-to-Logs were shipped. She worked one it off an on Monday, and after work I got out and helped her. It goes much faster when I can hold the pallets.

I need to get to bed as early as possible because Kayla has an earlier-than-usual morning commitment on Tuesday.

In some of the photos of the area near the woodbox, you may have noticed a pile of uncut cord-wood as well as a not-very tidy pile of pallets. We accumulate pallets, as the Pres-to-Logs and other wood is packaged on pallets. Lisa has tried to cut these down to short lengths so we can burn them in the fireplace; however, the pallets are generally full of nails, and you don't really want to try cutting them with most power equipment. Cutting them with hand saws is very tiring, and consequently, we've got a lot of uncut pallets.

Lisa, after doing some study, decided that a new tool was needed, and so off we went to Lowe's.

( Time for Some Demo )

As our time and energy permit, we will cut up these remaining pallets and store the pieces in the wood box. The area behind this pile of pallets is a place where Lisa is planning on building a second wood box so that we can lay in as many as three pallets of Press-to-Logs at a time, which will help soften hiccups in the supply chain next winter, we hope.