still working on the splitter plans

I will update this as the day goes on but here is a screenshot of the 12 way wedge, each log will take one cycle instead of up to 12, IE: 15 seconds instead of 1-2 mnutes

merry christmas

merry christmas.... I am sitting here playing with Auto-CAD designing something I will probably never build but what the hell it will help pass the time... I am basically copying Tom Andersons firewood saw setup but on a smaller scale... instead of a 60" blade mine will have a 36" blade and split the log blanks as they are cut, right now he has 2 guys splitting wood while he saws and they can produce only 2 cords a hour, mine will need one person to run it and should produce around 5 cords an hour provided I have enough logs to go that fast. I have been scrounging for parts to build a good splitter for over 2 years and I finally have at my disposal 80% of what I need, I have a 3cyl 45 hp gas motor, a 40 GPM ydraulic pump, a bank of spool valves (8 valves) 4 hydraulic cylinders, one is 6" wide and 36" long and will be used for splitting the wood 12 ways in one shot... now all I need is some steel, some time (got plenty of that , lol) and a set of plans. the only real expensive things that I do not have yet is the 36" saw blade which is around $600 and the hydraulic motor to power it which is around $250 but like I said before.... I have been scrounging for 2 years to get the other parts at little cost to me so if I have to wait til next year to spend a grand in making it saw its own logs... so be it! 2 chainsaws are $300 and me and a helper can cut alot of wood in a afternoon with 2 saws.... the big time saver will be only loading the logs once and getting 12 splits in one pass and then having a conveyor load them right into my dump truck off the back of the splitter... oh well I will add more plan drawings later

running around like a checken with its head cut off

well the title describes it best, this evening I went up to gibralter trade center to pick up a external hard drive enclosure so I can start using the 160gb sata drive I have had in the computer as a backup but after looking at the contents I found something that I thought I had erased and that was the video footage from July 3rd. I have had 4 cameras in various places sence last year and one shoots down the driveway from the coupola on the garage, 2 wireless ones are in the large maple tree in the front yard and one in the backyard...bah I am not going to get into that... it is best left in the past.... or until I file suit in late January..

I am still not decorating for christmas - to hell with it
I am still waiting for snow - but I stopped holding my breath
I am still hauling firewood - but I doubt it will last much longer unless it gets colder

oh well

Inconsiderate & ungrateful people

normally I try not to bitch and moan about petty things but lately people in general have just been pissing me off.... I'll start with Trish... Jeremys girlfriend, all this woman wants is the world handed to her on a fricking platter! about 3 weeks ago I decided to let her use my blazer because she was constantly bitching and whining about not having any transportation because her blazers transmission went out". "Nate, can I use your blazer to look for a job and to take the kids to school" how can I say no? Maybe she is going to actually get off her dead ass and on to her dying feet to try and support herself and her kids so jeremy dosent have to do it all by himself... wow what a concept.... a week goes by and all that the blazer has been used for is driving around town for shits and giggles...... 3 weeks later the transmission calls it quits, I knew it was not in the best of shape to begin with but I was pretty sure it would make it through the winter if it was not beat on.... well now it has a new transmission.... and she killed a set of brakes.... and blew out the radiator,,,... to top it all off she bitches me out because I havnt had it fixed yet!!!! Well pardon the fuck out of me!!!!! I just spent $450 on that transmission! that was cold hard cash toots and it broke the pre-season repairs fund, I am not going to put that $180 radiator on the charge card so you have something to beat the shit out of! you already killed 4 of jeremys cars and I am not going to let you screw up a plow truck that I am going to desperately need this winter just so you can joy ride around town and beat the piss out of it when you get mad. What finally pushed my last button was last night I ran them(jeremy & trish) all over the place because they still dont have a running car, I spent $20 in gas....no biggie... and while we were out we stopped at the country hearth center to look into getting a grate for their fireplace so they could use it and actually get some heat besides the furnace. the lady showes us the wrought iron grates and the cheapest one was $55 I know jeremy dosent have that kind of money so I asked the lady what else she had and she found a cast iron one for $25, being the nice person I am I bought that for them and then went to my house to load up about 6 bundles worth of firewood and 20 gallons of water. we all squeeze in my chevy and drive over to their place and I unload the wood and clean out the fireplace and get a fire going for Jeremy because he is yet to master getting one going and right as we sit down for a late dinner trish pops in a dvd... and the opening scene is some guy having a frontal labotomy done in a mental hosspital... come the fuck on!!! I am trying to eat and she pops in a horror movie??? what the hell? everyone that knows me knows I am open to almost anything but I dont like horror movies and gorey stuff, shit Jeremy begged me for a week to go see "Underworld Evoloution (3 or 4)" with him because of his anti-social thing and that movie wasnt that bad as far as weird gorey stuff goes. so I left like 5 minutes after we get there, I had originally brought along a DVD that I had from a box set on the stealth program that interisted me and jeremy but she didnt want to watch that "stupid airplane shit"

I try my best to help people but anymore screw it, anymore people are just out to use you until you cry foul. I think I just need to start looking for different friends.

wow time flies

good god the last 3 weeks have been a living nightmare, I have been selling firewood and have sold quite a bit for Tom Anderson... well when I say a bit I mean enough to pay for me to purchase a 2 ton dump truck :-D I but it already split for $100 a cord and sell it for $180 delivered in Toledo... just back in the drive and dump and go around $60-$65 of pure profit for an hour and a half of work... even working at jeep wont touch that unless you are doing OT all day long


I'll tell you what I cant wait fr the snow... I am SO Excited this year I will have 5 trucks running, the Chevy 2500 I just bought, the dump truck will get a 10' road blade and do stand-by work for the city of Holland, my blazer is getting a 6.5' Meyers( what was on the durango) the durango is getting a new 7½' Meyers plow, Jeremys S-10 is getting a 7' Meyers blade and will be a backup truck. I just landed all 13 family video stores which is a pretty decient contract and hopefully Andy Mock from Techlawn will get back ahold of me so I can give him our Sub rates. all I can say is that I am praying for snow, I did some math and the family video contract is worth around $10k for snow alone plus the mowing work in the summer... well I am off to bed, I will post pics of the new trucks soon