Pile in the firewood
Published: Mon, 09/16/13
This weekend we took our family camping, and met another family out
in Southwest Montana. We were trying to get some more time in the
outdoors before the cold winter kicks in here.
It's a lonnnng winter.
Anyway, you need a nice large fire to keep warm because it gets
quite chilly at night at the higher elevations in mid-September
here.
I like building a fire, and the friend I was with really enjoys the
woodcutting process. And he likes building giant fires.
Anyway, I helped him cut logs up into 3' sections and then
placed the logs so that he could split them.
He is a much better firewood splitter than I am. I'm getting
better, but he is faster than me.
So after some work we had a nice pile of firewood at 2pm, ready for
the night's fire.
It's kind of a fun process.
There is lots of work to be done, for sure.
But at the end you can pile the wood into the fire, and as the
evening gets colder, the fire grows larger and warmer.
By the end of the night, my friend and I were joking that our fire
rivaled that of a high school homecoming bonfire.
Anyway, the process reminds me a little bit of the testing needed
to take sand to market.
The cutting of logs and splitting of firewood is like the
effort that frac sand explorers go to and sample the sand on their
property.
There is an investment needed in both activities. For frac sand,
there is a definite investment needed to test if sand can be taken
to market and used as frac sand.
Or perhaps it can't become frac sand, but maybe it can go to
other industries for a nice profit.
If it does make it to market, that income and cash flow can provide
a reward that is comparable to the heat from a nice big fire.
Rewarding, indeed.
If you are ready to "cut some wood" and test your sand to
see if it can be used for frac sand, I have a nice package deal for
you.
Full American Petroleum Institute suite of testing for $1,950 -
complete.
E-mail or call me back today.