Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[steved]

verizon has been giving me fits all week here in west central MN

5000th post...

 

[Pulp]

Perhaps. I've always been able to find them with a web search though. Also, I believe only the Corps calls them D.I. so was wondering why there would be Marine drill instructors in FL. Some type of flight school course?

With time the brain cells loosen. The confused idiot cells mixed the Mohave (Ft. Irwin) base with Rudder @ Eglin AFB in Pensacola.
After too many years it all merges into one. SERE was done here in Maine.
I'm going to bed now.

 

[Jakers]

5000th post...

sorry, didnt mean to steal that from the more worthy posters in here. didnt even bother to look. thanks for the heads up though. its been a pretty great day here so far so why not keep it going.
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Id like to take this moment to thank all the people who have made this moment possible!!!!!!!!
@Darin , @steved , @mainewoods , and all the others who have posted here!!!!!!

Thank you all so very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, that is all, carry on

 

[Marshy]

Ambull : We call 'em choppers mitt's. Back in the 70's, guy's on the woods crew, that were doing the cutting and feeding the skidder, were called "chopper's". The independent finger was for the chainsaw trigger. Don't ever remember my hands being cold, even hooking up chokers in deep snow. We treated the leather every morning with neatsfoot oil before going into the woods for the day. Warmest things I've ever worn.
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I use to have a pair of these gloves from the military surplus store that had leather palms and removable wool liners. We use to call them trigger gloves because you can pull te trigger with them. Don't remember them being the warmest glove but I'd try a pair now days if I had them...

 

[Ambull01]

Ambull : We call 'em choppers mitt's. Back in the 70's, guy's on the woods crew, that were doing the cutting and feeding the skidder, were called "chopper's". The independent finger was for the chainsaw trigger. Don't ever remember my hands being cold, even hooking up chokers in deep snow. We treated the leather every morning with neatsfoot oil before going into the woods for the day. Warmest things I've ever worn.
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Yeah that's it! Choppers should be easy to remember. Ugliest gloves I've ever seen but if it keeps my hands warm that's all that matters.

 

[MustangMike]

The definitely help keep the pinkey finger warmer.

 

[Philbert]

I use to have a pair of these gloves from the military surplus store that had leather palms and removable wool liners. We use to call them trigger gloves because you can pull te trigger with them. Don't remember them being the warmest glove but I'd try a pair now days if I had them...

Still see those occasionally at the surplus stores. . . .

Philbert

 

[mainewoods]

Perhaps these would be more stylish.

Sold at Labonville Sold at Duluth Trading

 

[Ambull01]

http://www.duluthtrading.com/store/product/yellowknife-wool-lined-chopper-mitts-20607.aspx

I like these

 

[mainewoods]

When it's -30, with 4' of snow in the woods, and you're cuttin' spruce and hemlock, You don't care what they look like as long as your hands stay warm.

 

[farmer steve]

here's today's haul. or part of it. very large dead red oak. dead for at least 10 years. i won't go into details about getting it down but it was a mutha. 2 loads like this and that's just the limb wood.

stupid phone camera .

 

[Ambull01]

When it's -30, with 4' of snow in the woods, and you're cuttin' spruce and hemlock, You don't care what they look like as long as your hands stay warm.

I say again, if it's below 0 you're not going to see me outside cutting wood lol. Now if I lived somewhere that routinely hit that temp I would be forced to brave the conditions. If it gets that cold here in MD I'm staying inside because all hell is breaking loose outside. Schools were closed today because of a slight snow dusting on the streets. I **** you not. Had to drive the kids to their grandmother's house. People in MD are a bunch of wimps.

 

[MustangMike]

They do it here too, my wife & I were laughing about it! They closed school on Monday "because it was too cold", no snow, but there was a layer of ice on everything. Gone are the days when bus drivers were required to demonstrate they could install their own chains, and driving in the snow was nothing unusual!

 

[mainewoods]

Nice scrounge Steve, how did you come across that mother load?

 

[KenJax Tree]

Tire chain are illlegal here

 

[mainewoods]

I'll say this, it ain't as enjoyable when it's -20 and cuttin' in the woods, at 62, as it was when I was 32.

 

[Ambull01]

They do it here too, my wife & I were laughing about it! They closed school on Monday "because it was too cold", no snow, but there was a layer of ice on everything. Gone are the days when bus drivers were required to demonstrate they could install their own chains, and driving in the snow was nothing unusual!

The school has an automated phone system that calls parents when it will open late/close for the day due to inclement weather. Well my phone kept going off around 5:30 a.m. At first it was a 90 min delay, then they changed it to closed for the whole day. Got another call around 5:45. I was so pissed off I wanted to scream at the voice recording. Picked the phone up and yelled a stream of obscenities. It was my wife checking to see if I got the messages, woops.

What's pathetic is I drove over an hour to work in a rear wheel Cadillac with gobs of torque and had no issues. Kids school is the next street over from our house.

 

[Ambull01]

I'll say this, it ain't as enjoyable when it's -20 and cuttin' in the woods, at 62, as it was when I was 32.

I do not long for the day that I hit 62. Luckily I'm a long way from that. About the alien gloves you like so much, is it necessary to have a the index finger free? I think regular mittens would work just fine for a chainsaw. Or did they have pistol grip chainsaws when you were younger?

 

[7sleeper]

Tire chain are illlegal here

Funny place where you live!

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[MustangMike]

I went 35 miles to work once in a bad snow storm with a 68 Mustang with radial snow tires on the back (yea, they used to have them). Got there, and all the doors were locked. Had to drive home and charge leave for the day! And, on the way home, had to ram though a snow bank (they plowed a cross street and blocked the street I was on).

Oh well, gave me something to talk about!