Project #7 Splitting Fools...

Well, we did it. We split all of our wood from the Walnut tree, and all of Raj's families wood from their Cherry tree. What a tiring 2 days! We rented a gas powered splitter from HomeDepot at the Airport in Portland. It was $71 for 24 hours. We were hoping we could do it all in one day, but we ended up needing 2 days, so the grand total with gas and insurance was $161. We had to buy a bumper ball for the back of our truck, which cost an extra $6. (This was the first time we've pulled anything in our truck). We also used two gallons of gas during the two days. Oh, and we ended up buying some ear plugs. The machine is very loud. When we got it home, we were surprized to find that it wouldn't fit through our back yard gate. So, we had to split the wood on the driveway, which meant we had to bring the wood from the North side of the back yard, to the south side of the front yard. We are planning on putting the cut wood on the south side of the side yard, so we would of had to moved it anyways, but moving it before it was cut meant it was very heavy! We spent about 3 1/2 hours splitting the wood at our house, and about 10 hours at Raj's families house. We were exhausted and filthy afterwards, but relieved to have it all done!

Here are some pictures of our adventure:













And a few shot's at Raj's families house:


This was just one of the two huge piles of wood they had.



Nice action shot of me throwing a finished piece!







I was 90 degrees today, but this isn't my tan line, that's a dirt line!!!