Just a hobby

[alderman]

A bit of overkill when I just burn less than two cord a year, but I enjoy making firewood.

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[cuinrearview]

I burn zero cord a year...


I think I may start burning in a shop again next winter though. I better get to work!

 

[Mustang71]

A bit of overkill when I just burn less than two cord a year, but I enjoy making firewood.

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Hmm I burn more than you and have less to show for it. I do 3 cord and a bit more. Seems like all the ash is dieing. What's the wood and what saw are using?

 

[alderman]

Hmm I burn more than you and have less to show for it. I do 3 cord and a bit more. Seems like all the ash is dieing. What's the wood and what saw are using?

Combo of Fir, Alder and Maple. A clearcut behind my yard.
Cut most of it with Shindaiwa 550 or 575.

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[saxman]

I love Shindaiwa saws. I had a 575 for many years until somebody stole it [emoji35]. I still have a 350 and a 500 to play with. Very well built saws


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[rarefish383]

I love Shindaiwa saws. I had a 575 for many years until somebody stole it [emoji35]. I still have a 350 and a 500 to play with. Very well built saws


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Funny how one low life can change your whole out look on life. I built my house in 87 and would leave stuff in the yard overnight or leave the shed door open. A couple years ago a friend gave me all the old saws left from her Dad's tree service. He was a competitor of my Dad back in the 70's-80's. I had a big black Walnut slab I milled, cut two Oak logs as bases, and made a bench to take pictures of the gifts she gave me. They were behind nine cord of firewood in stacks, out of sight of the road, with a tarp over them. My climber friend came over to give me a hand on a side job. He knew Mr Payne also, so I said, "come look at the saws Joe Payne's daughter gave me". I pulled the tarp back and the Homelite Super Wiz77 with a 42" bar was gone. Now everything stays locked, garage stays down, even when we are home. Just takes a little of the good will out of life. I'd like to stick that 42" bar and 95CC's up some crack heads butt.

 

[saxman]

I feel your pain. I'm not sure a skinny little dopehead could pick that old Super Wiz up, maybe he was wired up at the time.


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[TimberWolf530]

Nice pile of wood. I hope the saw is just in the back of the truck like that for photographic purposes. Otherwise, you may be buying a new one real soon.

 

[cuinrearview]

Nice pile of wood. I hope the saw is just in the back of the truck like that for photographic purposes. Otherwise, you may be buying a new one real soon.

Just slow back roads from the woods to home so no worries.

 

[muddstopper]

Had a buddy buy a new weed eater a few weeks ago, Stopped at Walmart on way home and came back to his truck and weed eater was gone. He never even got to run it. People stealing gas cans, saws, all kinds of tools and even trucks and tractors. It has gotten terrible around here ever since the Casino Opened. Our county is now the Number one county in the state for drug dealing and abuse. I have been thinking about sticking a can of gas full of sugar in the back of my truck and hauling it around. Let some $hithead steal that. Might just use a small can of mixed gas and sugar, wonder how many saws and weed eater they would burn up before they figured it out. Of course if I did something like that my wife would get the gas can out of the truck and fill up my weed eater. Cant win for loseing.

 

[blades]

or the car/truck

 

[rancher2]

Had a buddy that lives 50 miles from me had his four wheeler stolen out of a field two years ago. He had rode it from home four miles to get the planter and tractor from the field move on to a another area to plant went back that night with his pickup to get the four wheeler and it was gone. Wheeler was only six months old and was a high dollar one. It was never found.

 

[blades]

if it isn't welded in place it's fair game here- and with those battery operated grinders that's not even a sure bet. had a break in in at my shop - solid 2" door - they cut it in half.

 

[Huskybill]

I got threatened by a crackhead 45 Year’s ago onetime I showed him my 6” barrel on my Python and told him where I was gonna stick it and pull the trigger. Never had a problem with this neighbor after that.

I moved to a better place. Almost fourty years ago I left my husky 240 on my picnic table outside overnight. Can’t do that in that neighborhood today. In my new neighborhood no one takes anything. I’m with good honest people now everyone helps everyone. Good old boys.

 

[Huskybill]

Our ash trees are dying because of a wood boring green beetle. I had one land on my arm while mowing on the tractor. It was written up in the news paper we’re losing our ash trees in the northeast.

When I started scrounging firewood to have a fire on Saturday night and if the power went out I could heat the home. Then everyone started offering me wood or a place to cut. I started selling the surplus wood then a tree cutter was born.

Using the temperature gauges on the stove and stovepipe I’m down to 2 1/2 cords of wood all winter. I started burning wood as a back up to losing power. We were snowed in for three days what if we lost power. I had three little kids.

 

[Husky Man]

Man, you guys like living Dangerously loadin them Chevys like that

The house I owned back in 2004-11 the neighborhood really went down hill fast, I had a 10' Red and Orange Kayak stolen out of the backyard, of course THAT isn't something anyone would Notice.

The house was burglarized, the Cretins used my own wheelbarrow to remove my Gunsafe, and I had the ARB Front Bumper and Warn Winch stolen off my Jeep Cherokee right in the driveway

It was Time to Go, but I sure miss the Shop that I had built at that house

Doug

 

[Marine5068]

Funny how one low life can change your whole out look on life. I built my house in 87 and would leave stuff in the yard overnight or leave the shed door open. A couple years ago a friend gave me all the old saws left from her Dad's tree service. He was a competitor of my Dad back in the 70's-80's. I had a big black Walnut slab I milled, cut two Oak logs as bases, and made a bench to take pictures of the gifts she gave me. They were behind nine cord of firewood in stacks, out of sight of the road, with a tarp over them. My climber friend came over to give me a hand on a side job. He knew Mr Payne also, so I said, "come look at the saws Joe Payne's daughter gave me". I pulled the tarp back and the Homelite Super Wiz77 with a 42" bar was gone. Now everything stays locked, garage stays down, even when we are home. Just takes a little of the good will out of life. I'd like to stick that 42" bar and 95CC's up some crack heads butt.

It sure is sad when you can't trust people anymore. I hate people stealing from me.
I remember the days of unlocked doors too. I have a few axes to grind with a few people I know stole from me.
Now I walk around with a huge chain or keys and let everyone hear it. Everything is locked, even inside the locked sheds the machines are locked to walls.
Makes no difference who you are or what you look like either, they still steal from you and sometimes even blatantly.
I'm 5'11" and 300lbs and an ex Pro-althete but I still get some calling me on, rarely, but it happens.
I have a good boat so I can dispose of their carcasses after you insert that bar up their neverminds,
Stay safe and keep up the spirit.

 

[Marine5068]

Just slow back roads from the woods to home so no worries.

I was gonna ask that too. I personally would never set my saws in with my wood piles. They get banged around too much.

 

[cuinrearview]

I was gonna ask that too. I personally would never set my saws in with my wood piles. They get banged around too much.

Man! Y'all sure are worried about my equipment. Trust me, I'm particular about where each saw is located. I've hauled many loads with saws, tools, and fluids back there. Never had an issue. They make the ride to the woods in the cab because I don't like them sliding around back there. I just don't like them in the cab hot and oily.

 

[Huskybill]

When we were young we never thought about stealing anything. Just the thought of the old man finding out if we got caught and the fear where his size 12 boot was going to go kept us out of trouble. Let’s say we never got caught but we never hurt anyone.