Cutting/splitting wood for next year.

[bogydave]

Originally Posted by chickweed

If you really like splitting wood so much, come visit us for awhile. Ed and SIL do it for both houses, and we do have an hydraulic splitter. We bought it last year, because Ed is not as young as he used to be and SIL is so busy at work and taking night classes. We'll have a tree cutting, wood splitting party!

You supply'n the beer? After the cutting's done of course

[bogydave]

Originally Posted by bunkie

ahhh i remember the 'regulars' used to laugh at us newbies.

Cheechako is the term here.

[chickweed]

Originally Posted by bogydave

You supply'n the beer? After the cutting's done of course

Beer and chili -even a bon fire and some guitar picking. Dogs are welcome, too! Stepdaughter's black lab will run off with any branch he can get his mouth around - he reminds me of the horse on the Budweiser super bowl commercial last year!

[lalbers]

Personally, we like getting our wood in and split before it snows How much woood do you go through a year? we go through about 7 cords. Our christmas, birthday, anniversery, etc presents two years ago to each other was a splitter, best thing we ever got.

[bunkie]

"getting our wood in and split before it snows"....that's always our plan too!

we borrow our neighbor's splitter. 7 plus cords for us too. i bought this handy dandy little hand splitter for me cause i haven't got the knack to wield an ax. have had it for several years now and have had to repaair it a couple times, but it works great for splitting logs for my little stove and for kindling.

wood is getting scarce around here tho. we need to come up with something else, like a hay/knapweed bale-burner.

the state used to select-cut their land and the make brush piles and charge everybody 10 bucks to go in and get as much wood as we could. the last two years they've piled it up and burned it, wasting all that good wood, and leaving many without....sad.

[chickweed]

We should have enough for this year in the lean-to at step daughter's house (she is about 1/2 mile away), but this is time of the year when the guys have the time to do it for next year. They would rather do it now than when it is hot outside, too. Wood is not a problem, because we have trees to clear, and SIL best friend clears land for a living and brings him good trees.

[springfever]

The thing that really irks me is that so many, many trees were downed from the ice but they will not allow anyone on National forest land to cut it up for firewood. There are people here who would have loved to go and cut up that wood and carry it out for themselves and others.
The worst part was watching them cut and stack piles on the side of the road and them a big machine come by and make it into chips.

yeah, that's not right one bit.

one morning the road crew came along and dropped a roadside tree on my land. They were about to chip it when I went out there very mad...

I told him since he dropped it on my land, from my land, then it was mine and to leave it right there and we'd take care of it.
They did, and we did.

another time the road crew came by to chip another tree. It was a Mountain Ash and posed no threat to traffic. I told them not to, and if they tried, they'd be sorry. They started up the grinder and as they got to the tree, the blade seized up and stopped spinning. They had to pack up and go home. I told them not to mess with me - they haven't been back

[bunkie]

cool tug! when we first moved here we had an apple tree that was just outside our fence near the main dirt road and the UPS guy and all other business and friends would gather fruit from this tree. some county guys came by and said they were cleaning up bushes, cutting and chipping, and such on the side of the road and we said fine. after working for about 15 minutes, i happened to look down the road and here they were cutting down our apple tree!!! i was so mad and hubby held me back saying it was down and there was nothing we could do about it. whelp, it grew back and is twice the size it was now and producing fruit like crazy....and every time i see any county guys (in orange trucks) coming around, i make myself prominent!

on my above post, i forgot to post a link to the manual splitter i use. it's gone up in price since i bought it, but it sure is worth it for those who can't swing an axe. or don't have monies for a big splitter.....

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/u...8;t=001053;p=0

Originally Posted by bunkie

cool tug! when we first moved here we had an apple tree that was just outside our fence near the main dirt road and the UPS guy and all other business and friends would gather fruit from this tree. some county guys came by and said they were cleaning up bushes, cutting and chipping, and such on the side of the road and we said fine. after working for about 15 minutes, i happened to look down the road and here they were cutting down our apple tree!!! i was so mad and hubby held me back saying it was down and there was nothing we could do about it. whelp, it grew back and is twice the size it was now and producing fruit like crazy....and every time i see any county guys (in orange trucks) coming around, i make myself prominent!

on my above post, i forgot to post a link to the manual splitter i use. it's gone up in price since i bought it, but it sure is worth it for those who can't swing an axe. or don't have monies for a big splitter.....

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/u...8;t=001053;p=0

LOL !!!
that's a link to "Sixteen things you never knew about vodka"