Landing Fire?

[bitzer]

Thanks for the replys everyone!

Yeah now that I've got the idea in my head I'm probably going to bring a barrel out to the landing when it starts getting cold enough. I have a feeling that my winter days are going to go like this- Since I'm running the biggest saw on the job I will get done first and will have to wait for Brett (Icepick) to finish up (yep that's little poke ). That will give me time to get a decent fire going to unthaw my fingers and toes. Then when Brett gets out he will want to do the same and I will have to wait for the skidder op to finish up anyway. What else goes good around a barrel fire? Little schnapps to warm a guy up? Something that's not easily detectable by the missus when I get home, but still takes the chill out of my bones.


Had to scrape the truck windows this morning already. I need a new scraper for the skidder too. Its cold mud season now until the snow flies.

Grilled PB & J is awesome by the way. Fry it up in a pan with some butter like a grilled cheese.

 

[imagineero]

Sounds good but you have to translate for me. What is silverbeet?
Like my stew with dumplings on top, anything like that?

It's like spinach. Dumplings on top sounds good!

 

[Hddnis]

If it is real cold or wet I'll build myself a small fire where I'm working to sit by or crouch by while I'm eating. Last one was in pretty dry ground covered with pine straw. I used my boot to make a nice big area of bare ground and then used some of that pine straw to start the fire. It took one paper match. Add a few busted up pine branches and I enjoyed lunch despite a 10-15 wind and 26°

 

[wowzers]

We had a burn barrel until today. Meet an untimely demise to the yarder track. In the past we just built a fire along the inside of the road next to the cut bank to keep from taking the frost out of the road. When I worked on longline crew we had a barrel with a broken choker cable clamped on both sides. Landing man would stoke up a fire a little before lunch and the yarder guy flew it down to us. Pretty awesome when you've been walloring around in waist deep snow all day.

 

[Metals406]

Amen to that! When yer up to your nards in snow -- you bet yer sweet bippy there's a landing fire. . . And one in the bush if you can get it lit.