Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

I've got two guys coming up to help cut wood this weekend to help my friend supplement his owb supply. Wheeler, hydro, and three saws going means we should put a few trees on the ground. And we're looking at high twentys to low thirties for Saturday's high.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Ya'll don't know what its like having REAL power in the family, ask my Uncle about his little brother. Pops will have to be in a wheelchair, before I ever try him again. I remember being about 17 thought I could plow through anything/anybody, couldn't eat thanksgiving dinner cause my jaw stopped working.......go on UncleMike tell them a story............

 

[mainewoods]

Been below zero at night for the last 2 weeks. -20 this morning, high of 8 today. Might hit 30 Sunday. Scrounging is still on though, only 15" of snow in the woods. Maple sure splits easy when it's frozen.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Im Telling ya, he got sic when I was nine. Before the illness and operations he was stronger than any two men, after his recovery stronger than any one. Used to be able to grab rafters pinch them and do pull ups. On a bar he would do 20 one armed, not one handed one armed, pull ups either arm, situps with 80lbs behind his head, then work out with the 80lb dumb bells, when he was 45 after the surgery I was showing off my athleticism so he banged out a one armed pull up. Boxed the toughest badass in my school, kid got expelled for beating up the principal, my buddy, big john never layed a glove on pops, slipped every punch and only hit john with two jabs after john probably threw 20. John just shook his head and walked away. Pops was a freak of nature, UncleMike has faster hands, but pops, well he is just a whole another animal. Pops was crazy strong, still at 60 id bet he'd lick all the guys at the last boxing gym i was working out at. Craziest part is he was probably 175 at his heaviest.

 

[Ambull01]

@cantoo holy ****!!! You need to get the hell out of Canada! Come further south, you can cut wood all year long.

 

[SteveSS]

It should be illegal to snow that much.

 

[SteveSS]

Ya'll don't know what its like having REAL power in the family, ask my Uncle about his little brother. Pops will have to be in a wheelchair, before I ever try him again. I remember being about 17 thought I could plow through anything/anybody, couldn't eat thanksgiving dinner cause my jaw stopped working.......go on UncleMike tell them a story............

About the same age, I was just a s#it head. Trying to show the old man that I was the new man on the block.......LOL. Didn't work out too well in my favor. Probably didn't help much that I was 5'10" and 120 lbs soaking wet.

Ahhhhh......to be young again.

I'd kick the hell out of my boy too, if he ever tried me. LOL........you just can't let the pup win. It would upset the fabric of the universe.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Steve, it took me a long time to set him up. I had to fake a jab cause every time id throw a jab he'd slip it to my left to stay away from my right, so I faked a jab then faked a left hook, when he went to slip the hook his head was rolling right into my right uppercut. That was the last time I ever landed a punch to him ever. He had a different look on his face and it was over for me, I've been taught how to box since I could walk, but man that old man is slick. The last gym the trainer wanted me to start coming every night so he could train me for the golden glove tornament to represent his gym, I laughed at him and told him I know two old guys that would mop the floor with me and every guy in here.

 

[SteveSS]

Love it! How many years do you have under your belt these days? I'm gonna hit 46 in April, and my "little dude" hit 20 this past October.....I couldn't be more proud of the man that he's become. Seems like yesterday that I was sitting on the couch watching Space Jam with him every Saturday morning, and then rewinding it and watching it again.....and again......and again. I swear that I've seen Space Jam at least 200 times. Same with Lion King. If I wasn't so damned old, I'd have another one. NOT!! I'll wait for him to make me a grand-baby. Not that I'm in any kind of hurry to be a grandpa.

 

[MechanicMatt]

I'm 33. My oldest sister, her oldest boy is 20. Lion King, hahahahahaha Steve, I've seen that damn movie 500 times.

 

[SteveSS]

Yep!! Pretty sure that if you and I ever got together for a few cold ones, we could recite it line for line. Hakuna Matataa!

 

[1project2many]

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

I went prepaid a couple of years ago. It's on Verizon but it's through another company. Took a $48/mo bill down to $13.

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!

I am soooo happy about that. The fact is, only a handful could actually do it, and only a fraction of that were willing. In school bus world, everything that seems like it might take effort seems to get handed to the mechanics.

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).
Oh well, gave me something to talk about!

When I was a youngster and still living at home I had agreed to pick up my mom from work one morning. We had 8" snow that evening so I found an old set of chains and installed them on my '82 Cavalier to I could head out at about 5 am. The only guys out were the plow guys and me. I got a lot of surprised looks that morning, had to keep speed up to glide over the snow banks from cross plowing, but we did all 20 miles without a problem.

It should be illegal to snow that much.

Whatcha see here is me cleaning off the north side of the house roof in '07. There are skylights under there and it was just too dark in the back of the house with the snow on them. That "hole" toward the lower center is where I stood before I stepped onto the roof. No ladder, just stepped onto the roof. I didn't get pictures of clearing the barn roof, though. Two stories up, 8/12 pitch, metal roof, and snow that wouldn't bust free to slide until after you'd stepped on it. No... I wasn't thinking about snapping pictures during that job.




This isn't so bad. From early in 2014. Daily trip to the woodshed before work and I thought "I might want a picture of this some day."

 

[MustangMike]

Yea Matt, your Dad was freaky strong. Matt will tell U back in the day I had some big crazy (& strong) friends. The "Goon" was 6'4", 240 lbs, and cut! He was a lefty, and had never been beaten left handed arm wrestling. Matt's Dad is also a lefty, but was only 160 lbs. They arm wrestled, and my brother beat the Goon twice (cause he could not believe it the first time). The Goon put his head down in his arms and declared that he never saw a guy that small (he is 6') that was that strong!

My brother was Captain of the HS wrestling team and had an undefeated season.

He is still great to have around whenever U have to move anything heavy.

 

[SAWMIKAZE]

All my dad's friends that were "crazy" are dead..or doin bids long enough that they may as well be dead

 

[farmer steve]

As I have posted before my dad is a retired brick mason. He will be 70 in July. I would think twice before I tried him now. I am 6' and 230lbs. They don't make men like that anymore. The last load of oak I posted that came from my neighbors yard they were loading by hand. My 50 year old neighbor started to pick up a nice size piece of oak then stopped when he realized it was too much for him. My dad patted him on the back and said don't worry son I will take care of that. LOL.

i had a lady call me about a load of apple f/w that i didn't have . i referred her to my dad that had some cherry wood. she asked if he would stack it as she and her husband were getting close to 70 and couldn't stack it. i told her yes but it would be extra $. oh and by the way i told her dad is 83.

 

[svk]

Yea Matt, your Dad was freaky strong. Matt will tell U back in the day I had some big crazy (& strong) friends. The "Goon" was 6'4", 240 lbs, and cut! He was a lefty, and had never been beaten left handed arm wrestling. Matt's Dad is also a lefty, but was only 160 lbs. They arm wrestled, and my brother beat the Goon twice (cause he could not believe it the first time). The Goon put his head down in his arms and declared that he never saw a guy that small (he is 6') that was that strong!

My brother was Captain of the HS wrestling team and had an undefeated season.

He is still great to have around whenever U have to move anything heavy.

I know a few guys like your dad that are just unworldly.

Friend from elementary/HS was about 6', 200# and no body fat. Benched over 400 in HS. Another friend was an excellent wrestler, got third at state in a lighter weight class. They wrestled and the first guy literally crumpled the wrestler into a little ball in about thirty seconds, as soon as the wrestler tried to go in for a takedown it was all over.

Another time a couple of years after HS this guy was out on the town and a bunch of guys started picking a fight with another mutual friend (he was the class clown). Turned into an all out group rumble. I wasn't there but one of my best friends at the time was and relayed the results. Four guys jumped this guy at once and proceeded to get all of their azzes beat. I guess it looked like a scene from a Schwarzenegger movie LOL.


I realized fairly early in life I'm not one of those guys so the only way I'm going to win anything is by endurance. I was a pretty good runner/swimmer in school and can still work most guys into the ground after several hours of manual labor despite having an office job during the week.

 

[mainewoods]

 

[Ambull01]

What's with all the man love lately?

 

[SAWMIKAZE]

Did i ever tell you about when i was 6'6" 265lbs in 1st grade and i beat up the lunch lady and hall monitor and did 50 1 arm pushups after?

 

[KenJax Tree]

Nice Ryan