Absolutely correct. I remember sitting at my desk at work looking out the window and saying to myself 'man this would be a great duck day'. Now I hunt as much as I physically can. Too bad the ducks don't cooperate. Seems they like the Northern climate more these days.My one hunting buddy got screwed up with his work scheduled this year and didn't have a lot of time for rifle season this year. I talked to him right after season and he said he's going to schedule all 2 weeks off next year. Other than being busier than when I was working retirement is great for hunting.
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I'm still seeing mallards and canadas here. They'll stay as long as Lake Michigan is open and there's no snow cover. There were guys beating up the mallards around here in November. Unfortunately it's become a pay to play sport here. There's lots of fields leased for waterfowl hunting.
We have a huge pop out bay window in the living room, goes floor to ceiling, 8 feet wide, and bows out of the house nearly 3 feet. It's a massive heat suck. My wife and I argue about it all the time. I want it gone, but she like how much light it let's in the living room. Soon as I find a big double or triple hung window for a reasonable price, that bay window Is gone.I’m thinking it’s time to replace my windows. My house is at 65* in the morning when I wake up to feed the stove so I’m not freezing. But when I sit on the couch, I definitely feel the cold from the old windows…
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before I had a heat stroke I would have rather processed wood in summer. Anymore I do it all in fall/winter. I can put more clothes on to stay warm once I'm hot I'm done.
Couldn't agree more. Well... on second thought winter, spring, summer and fall are for fishing but the only time I want to cut in the summer is if the scrounge is too good to pass up. Like hardwood already on the ground and I can get my truck or trailer right to it.
I had a couple good waterfowl days this fall but I was expecting to see better numbers overall. Was hoping that the dry spring we had would lead to a better hatch. At least the grouse numbers seemed to be up. The best success I had with ducks was looking for them in places that are hard to get to and get overlooked by most. It's been a few years since we've had good numbers out on the main river where anyone can set up on one of the islands and have a good crack at them.
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
Yeah 5 on the plus side felt soooo much better than the negatives we’ve been having
It's been hovering around -20 F overnight the last couple days here and the heat pump is struggling with it. Had to fire up the incredibly inefficient electric boiler we have as a secondary heat source for the house, the power bill next month will be fun... Man I cannot wait to install a wood stove in this house whether it can vent through the existing chimney or it has to go through the roof.
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
I guess I’m the odd duck, I don’t mind cutting in the summer. But it’s usually after 5 when the angle of the sun isn’t too bad. I like sweating out all the toxins
I hunt on public lands that the COE plants and then floods the fields. Hard to hunt the last 20 yrs because the ducks just don't come down until everything up North freezes out. We got our cold snap the last two weeks of the season and everything froze up. I don't break ice anymore like the young ones do. Any migration that happened was maybe a stop overnight and then they continued on South.
How cold?
Cold enough that it's hard to get ash out of the stoves when they're running hard 24/7
Cold enough that it's hard to get ash out of the stoves when they're running hard 24/7
Heat pumps are great until it gets cold. Sucks that the powers that be are trying to push us that way. I'll burn wood til I die. We had the house at 74 when it was -11 the other night. Sure I burned a bunch of wood but I'll go cut more.
StihlMS360
ArboristSite Operative
Yeah, it sucks what they are trying to force us into, but I'm not going for it.
Although, I was once told by a stove manufacturer (Hitzer Inc) that all you needed to do was install a coal stove. Then if you were caught burning wood all you needed to do was say you are in the process of switching to burning coal.
This makes sense, at least to me, because I know the EPA does have less restrictions on anthracite coal.
Although, I was once told by a stove manufacturer (Hitzer Inc) that all you needed to do was install a coal stove. Then if you were caught burning wood all you needed to do was say you are in the process of switching to burning coal.
This makes sense, at least to me, because I know the EPA does have less restrictions on anthracite coal.
Good on you. Burn baby burn! It seems backwards to me that they are even talking about stopping people from heating their homes with a renewable resource like firewood when there are still people with oil furnaces. I'm going through more wood in my little shop these last few days too. An armload usually lasts me the evening keeping it around 60-70 and I've been stepping out to grab a second load.
StihlMS360
ArboristSite Operative
That is what never makes sense to me out of it either. I guess it's like hunting: People that don't understand it think it's cruel, forgetting the DNR slogan, "Hunting is conservation."
My farm paper had an article about heating and costs.
https://www.lancasterfarming.com/fa...cle_70d6de74-baaa-510d-995f-11024a8411c6.html
I cut when I have to… year round. Around the houses it has been dead ash and storm damage—not much standing ash left and what is is rotten beyond use. On the rail trail it used to be mostly dead ash but now live trees are falling due to shallow soil and wind. It’s particularly bad when the soil is saturated. The trees lack the protection from the wind they had with the ash.
My city knows exactly who heats with wood and is pressuring them to switch to electric heat pumps. At the same time a tourist train spews enough particulate matter in one day to probably equal a year’s worth from all the wood heated homes. Politically the city and county don’t have the will to kill off the railroad…
I guess I'm good, maybe even extra good!
The house is Natural Gas, and the Cabin is real wood ... except I don't pay anything a cord other than the fuel in the saws and splitter (when I don't use the Fiskars)!
And only one of those fuel sources can be harvested by a homeowner (at least without extraordinary means). Most of us don't buy firewood by the cord, so even if the equipment and other sourcing costs are 80% of that, wood is the winner.
My uncle used to participate in the "train robbery" on the tourist train in Margaretville NY.
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