Wood Fell Out of My Truck -I Split So Much- Using the 80/20 Principle

Merry Christmas,

Here is an Article With Three Legs.

LEG #1 --Billionaire Paul Meyer's Profitable Hobby was Collecting Antique Cars. My Profitable Wood Splitting Hobby (While not as Lucrative as Mr Billionaires) Pays Me 3 Ways.

Cha-Ching I -- I save Health Club fees

Cha-Ching II -- Heating Oil Is projected to Double In Price This Winter. (So heating with Wood puts a few THOUSAND bucks in my pocket.)

Cha-Ching III -- The Noise Of The Sledgehammer spreads out for 1/2 a Mile. And attracts my Neighbors. Four of Whom Have Paid Me Money.

Poo poo -- You say?

An 83 Year old Neighbor Gave me the Wood from 17 Trees -- the Electic Company Cut in his yard.

5000.00 worth of wood Minimum.

A retired Neighbor Who Sells Sports Memorabilia (Just cut down a Huge 5 foot thick Oak) -- has given me Tons of wood too. Another 3Grand.

LEG #2 -- The Author of "The 80/20 Principle" -- Richard Koch -- Just became a Billionaire. Using a Crazy, Scary, Freaky Version of his own 80/20 Formula.

LEG #3 -- If You Think of My New Wood Splitting RECORD as a Metaphor. An Example of What You Can Do in Your Life.

Then My Short Story of How We Adapted The 80/20 Concept to Split MORE WOOD in less Time....

80/20 Magic Might Apply To You Too. (Tons of Folks discovered they could do their Job From Home. In That way COVID-19 was helpful.)

Your Work -- Website

Your Play -- Beat Your Buddies at Golf

Your Hobbies -- What hobby can YOU Start that makes You More Money?

Here is an Old Photo.

My New Record of Piling wood into my Truck BEAT THE Stuffing out of what we used to do. And When you look at this Fallen Oak Tree. This is a LOT of Wood.

How We Used 80/20 To Split So Much Wood in 2 Hours -- 20 chunks fell out of the back of the Truck -- On The Way back to the House.

Normally Wood Splitting Goes Like This --

Pull the Truck up next to A Chainsawed log.

Un-load my ax, sledgehammer, Peevy, Bucket of wedges, bucket with water Thermos and sharpening Stone.

I -- Split wood

II -- Toss it to the Side so I don't Trip

III -- Load wood on Truck

IV -- Drive to Porch

V -- Unload wood onto Porch and cover with a Tarp.

VI -- Carry Wood into House and Stack it.

VII -- Load it into FirePlace Insert One at a time -- to Heat the house.

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80/20 Version -- 50% less Swings with Sledgehammer & 50% Fewer Pieces of Wood To Load and Unload.

I -- Splitting around the Edge of the 4 Foot across Oak "Rounds" -- I decided to use Two Wedges at same time. To split -- bigger but Thin Wood Slabs off The Edges of the log.

II -- Since Each Slab is 50% bigger -- Fewer Swings of the Hammer. Less wood to Move.

III -- THE BIG CHANGE?

IV -- I have to Prepare some Kindling Ahead of Time. PRE-HEAT THE FIRE. Get a roaring fire with Red Hot Coals going. And only Then Can I burn the Bigger Wood Chunks.

Just Thought of another 80/20 BENEFIT.

The Bigger Slabs of wood BURN Longer. So I don't have so much Up and Down. Back and Forth work to do -- Putting new wood on the Fire.

Thanks,

Glenn Osborn

P.S. -- You May Not Get Excited about this 80/20 Innovation as it applies to Wood. But I have been Cutting, splitting, burning wood my whole life. And This Idea NEVER Occurred to me Before.

So.

You Might Wanna Hold up the 80/20-MAGIC GLASSES When You Look At Whatever WORK RUT You Might have Fallen into.

You Will be GLAD You Did.