Use Your Logs

How do I use these logs?

Where I came from, I would have dried them, split them and loaded them in the back of the truck and sold them as firewood.

It gets cold in the Midwest and many people have fireplaces and wood stoves to save on their heating costs. It is quite easy to sell many of those people a pickup load of firewood.

It's a different story here in Puerto Rico. People, for the most part don't have fireplaces or wood stoves. Most people don't even have a heater. It's too bad that wood won't run an air conditioner.

From looking at the web site linked below, the coldest it has ever been here is 60 degrees, with the temperature averaging around 75 degrees. There is no need for heaters.

I had cut down a couple trees and had cut them into logs and I was wondering:

What should I do with these logs?

In front of the house is a slope. Maggie and I are here on a mountain and there was some metal grates stuck to keep children and animals from going down the slope. Metal and nature just doesn't seem to go well together. Maggie had an idea.

Many of you know that Froggy loves to do landscaping. I love making man-made items fit back into nature. I had wrote a hub awhile back in which my friend, Tony had a storm shelter that just looked out of place in the Missouri Ozarks. Take a look at what we did:

A Naturized Storm Shelter

Maggie thought we could use logs instead of metal grates and that is what we did. See the pictures at the right >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

To do this, use a pick or shovel and make your area flat. You then slightly trench where your log will go. Tap the log with a hammer to seat it and fill the recesses in with leftover dirt. It is all quite simple; you just need a strong back and a shovel and or pick and some logs.

We still had more logs and Maggie had another super idea.

On the other side of the house is a rock wall that she had built some years ago. next to it was fallen dirt and wouldn't it be nice to have a stairway that you could climb part way up.

Froggy got his shovel and started the process; starting at the bottom you carve an area where a log will sit. Make sure it has a small trench and after setting the log start carving your next step using the dirt you take out to fill all the recesses of the first log or stair. Work you way up and you may have to cut logs to fit.

It is a good idea to do before a rain storm or water all the dirt areas to pack the dirt firmly around each stair.

Check out the picture.

We used up the logs and got some neat stuff accomplished using nature.

Don't want to burn your logs? Use them to landscape! It's cheap, fun and looks great!

© G.L. Boudonck