Howdy gents.
Starting to get re-acclimated to being home. I missed Nancy and the kiddo so much, but Scotland was pretty good as well. My stepdad really needed me there to support and assist him, as he is somewhere around 200 yrs old, so it's a good thing I went. Just wish I could sleep better; it sucks being 5000 miles from home in a daze. They had a coffee there at the hotel better than anything I get around here. Brodie's is the name of it. They sent us home with four bags of it. Had 8 cups this morning...
Ran the splitter some the past couple days. My business associate borrowed it to try to turn this enormous pile of logs amassed over the year of tree work into firewood, but he ran it too hard and long on elm, and now it seeps by the wedge lever. Not much, but I wonder if I should let him use it for the rest of the logs. It was low on hydro fluid when I got it back, even though he went and got my spare bucket of it off the porch. Kind of pisses me off that he borrows my equipment but doesn't take care of it. It still seems to work fine, but it seems that this kind of thing will shorten its life significantly. I bought it to split my own firewood because I'm too old to do it by hand, not to be in the firewood business. It's a $1200 Dirty Hand 27 ton, not a $2500 Samson 50 ton. So, I have a dilemma. Thoughts and opinions welcomed. He wants to borrow it again to finish up, and at this stage in the business process it's the only option he can afford, and he is excellent in a tree and will teach me to be the same, which I appreciate. I may allow it this time, but next year he can find another option. I have zero interest in selling firewood with all the loading and stacking.
Hope your day is a good one!
