Hello! It didn’t continuously pour today which was awesome in my books! Other parts of the country are pretty much in drought – would be great to swap some sunshine for the rain!
Our wood pile was almost non-existent. Cousin Jeff has run out of available wood so I went to the local nursery to buy some off them.
First I had to scrape the last of the mushroom compost out of the trailer and bag it up for later.
I did a bit of an experiment… I can’t really tell volumes of items (like wood)
They had these crates of bits and pieces of wood – the non-pretty stuff selling at (seemingly) a lesser price. I don’t care if wood is weird shaped so I thought I would buy a bin.
While there was a reasonable number of good sized pieces, a lot of it was splintery small chunks/rubbish.
I took it home and divided it up to store
My ugly wood pile cost $55. There was a lot of other stuff I chucked in my kindling box – while I will use it, to be honest, we really don’t need more kindling (esp we don’t need to buy it)
SO… to compare I thought I would buy a metre of the usual wood.
I wasn’t sure the little trailer could hack the weight so some of it went into the back of the vehicle too!
I really really really didn’t want to make a third trip. Each time I have to go out, I have to unhitch the trailer, move it, turn the car and rehitch the trailer back up!
This is because I cannot back the trailer up in a small space like our front yard and out onto the highway! Nup uh.
I was reasonably good backing it with our other car, but this one I haven’t had any practice bar going forward!
I think its a much better deal to buy the decent wood. I think there was more than twice the amount of usable sized logs for $95
I think if the ‘ugly wood’ had of been more about the bigger chunks and not the wood chips, the price still would have to come down considerably to make it worthwhile.
Kind of an expensive experiment to make at this point, but at least now we know. I couldn’t really take it all back and fill the box back up at the nursery!
Over summer I will be pouring my gardening money into Cousin Jeff’s pocket to get as much wood as we can stock!! Then come winter I don’t have to think about it!
And yup, I have sore muscles tonight! Thats a good thing! Feel like I have done some proper work today – with minimal amount of being rained on!
Cheers
