Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[svk]

According to my forester friend average 80-90 years.

Around my cabin was logged in the nineteen-teens so these are basically the pioneers after the pines were cut down. There are smaller ones that seem to be getting the white rot also. Not sure if they are older trees that are stunted or if the white rot transfers from tree to tree.

 

[wudpirat]

Only 4 years Navy service that was counted to the 38 years working for AVCO and later TEXTRON.
Building and testing gas turbine engines for Huey and Chinook helos and later M1 Abrams tanks.
I needed 15 years and 55 years to retire, I bailed @ 38 and 56, .
THE BEST MOVE I EVER MADE IN MY WHOLE LIFE.
I live simple, watch my money,use my new car and vacation money to pay my property taxes, don't drink or chase women, really only vices I have are chainsaws, pizza and CT valley cigars. If I need something, I bought it years ago.
It's really expensive to live in this state, people are leaving every day to greener pastures.
Gotta run, got wood to split before the big snow shuts me down.

 

[Ambull01]

Only 4 years Navy service that was counted to the 38 years working for AVCO and later TEXTRON.
Building and testing gas turbine engines for Huey and Chinook helos and later M1 Abrams tanks.
I needed 15 years and 55 years to retire, I bailed @ 38 and 56, .
THE BEST MOVE I EVER MADE IN MY WHOLE LIFE.
I live simple, watch my money,use my new car and vacation money to pay my property taxes, don't drink or chase women, really only vices I have are chainsaws, pizza and CT valley cigars. If I need something, I bought it years ago.
It's really expensive to live in this state, people are leaving every day to greener pastures.
Gotta run, got wood to split before the big snow shuts me down.

Awesome sir. I like to hear stuff like this. It's a shame the average person needs to work so damn long. You've got school from 5 or so to 18 if just HS or 22+ for college. Then you have to work your ass off until around 65. While you're working you spend more time around co-workers then your family!! Such BS.

Anyway, get your boys to split wood! Kick back and drink a non-alcoholic Coors. They're pretty good, I don't drink either lol.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Damn, ya'll don't know what your missing. Its called moderation. Hey woodpirate, you make it to any of the GTG's?

 

[Ambull01]

Damn, ya'll don't know what your missing. Its called moderation. Hey woodpirate, you make it to any of the GTG's?

Moderation? Okay fess up, how many saws do you own to cut firewood?

 

[chucker]

Moderation? Okay fess up, how many saws do you own to cut firewood?

?? 7.... and always looking to add another for some reason???? lol

 

[MechanicMatt]

Hahahahahaha, oh damn you got me, hahahahahaha truth? I dunno, a lot, to many, to tired to think about it. I actually leave some at my BILs house for use there too. And do you mean just runners or projects too? Id guess 12.........

 

[Ambull01]

Okay so moderation in most things. You can splurge on really, really important things lol.

 

[MechanicMatt]

Yeah, something like that.

 

[svk]

Boy this has been quite a day on here, you guys are hilarious today!

 

[MustangMike]

I guess everything is relative! People fleeing the high cost of things are fleeing NY into CT! In Quaker Ridge, the taxes on the CT side are about 1/2 what they are on the NY side, not that either side is cheap!

And Matt is not splurging, he is being frugal. It may take 3 saws to make one runner, but what he gets them for it is worth it. And he does make some nice runners! That 50/55 of his is sweet, and I'm still waiting to pull the trigger on that 262!

 

[1project2many]

I actually leave some at my BILs house for use there too.

Is that the real reason? Or is it so no one else realizes how many saws you've actually collected.

 

[MustangMike]

One of the ones he leaves at the BIL's isn't even really his! (but it is OK)! Matt revived a 041 AV one of my clients gave me, and his BIL really likes it. At least, when I visited, I got to pull the trigger on it, which is all I wanted to do!

 

[svk]

Time to start turning some of these big boys into BTU's starting with that one in the middle.

 

[dancan]

4* and sunny , windthrills sucking it down to -16 or more as the wind picks up ...... Oh well , just another layer needed LOL
Off to scrounge up some logs that got left behind last weekend .

 

[svk]

7 down and now bucked to 8'. The other two guys are skidding them right now.

 

[MechanicMatt]

At the BIL I have a old echo, a poulan, a husky, my only stihl and my uncles 041. At home I don't need to hide them. Price of one saw equals what the oil b@st@rd would charge me a month to heat my house, wife doesn't mind the saws anymore. Got home after working 14 hours to 6* outside and 75* inside, wife has zero complaints about the saws now.

 

[Jakers]

7 down and now bucked to 8'. The other two guys are skidding them right now.

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looks like you guys got a bit of snow last night judging by the trees. did you get any rain? we have 3/8" of ice on everything that is on the ground today. pretty much shut down most everything

 

[svk]

looks like you guys got a bit of snow last night judging by the trees. did you get any rain? we have 3/8" of ice on everything that is on the ground today. pretty much shut down most everything

It was 16 overnight. Strong east wind and about 2" of snow. 25 and overcast now.

 

[SteveSS]

It's in the high 50's here again for the second day in a row. The ground is pretty soft and the wind is blowing all get out. I feel like I need to be outside doing stuff, but the only tree I have to cut, the wind is blowing the wrong direction and I'd probably have to pull it. I don't think I'm up for all of that mess today. Maybe tomorrow.