Why I Burn Firewood

[modn]

Mr Blakey: How can you be absolutely sure that you don't have CAD. You may not have purchased a saw in a while but if you are finding comfort in that fact, you are heading into the "FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY ZONE". I have it on good authority that this insidious disease can lie dormant for months at a time before rearing it's ugly head without any warning whatsoever. It can strike with such swiftness that your charge card balance will be devasted before you have time to comprehend your actions. You could find yourself driving home with that new saw and trying to figure out what to tell the lady of the house upon arrival. you probably won't even realize what you have done until you get to the front yard. Although it may be hard to accept, you need to understand that we all have the CAD gene in our system and no one is totally immune. Please be careful, it can happen to you.

Maplemeister: :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:

Wise words, wise words indeed!!!!!:greenchainsaw:

 

[atvdave]

Whenever anyone talks about burning wood (myself included) the subject of saving money comes up. Yet if we actually figure it out, we are not "SAVING" money, we are just spending it in different areas...

Speak for yourself there.... My fire wood is free, I've had my trusty OLD chain saw for YEARS.. long before I purchased a insert, My time is free... sitting on my couch watching TV or out back cutting fire wood?, and I only spend about $25 per year on chain saw maintenance.

Now with my purchase of my new Dolmar chain saw thees figures will go up... but not clause they have too... because I just wanted a new saw, not that I needed to have it.

OH... and I'm using 1/4 the gas I did before.. so yes... I'm saving money.... If your not... then your doing something worng...

 

[woodchopper]

I don't have much to add to what folks have already posted. I am proud of my abilities to keep my family warm and cozy in the winter using my two hands and a saw. I try to be as self realiant as I can be. We have a freezer full of deer and birds and try to live simply. As Woodbooga said I believe I am a tree-hugger too. I like recreating in the woods whether than be hiking, or cutting down trees. We need woods for so many reasons yet there are radicals on both sides that don't understand that either wanting to clear cut an area for a new wal-mart or ban people from entering the woods to "protect it"

 

[Dalmatian90]

All the above...

Plus after splitting wood this afternoon the relaxation...

of watching a movie tonite...

with the woodstove going...

while sharpening the Fiskars axe with a whetstone and remembering my dad saying how his father used to sharpen pocket knives to the point you could shave with one.

Life is good.

 

[stihl sawing]

Well wish i wasn't burning wood this morning, Woke up about four thirty and went and checked the stove. Carried a few logs to the stove and was half asleep. Then accidentally kicked the four logs barefooted. Took all the skin off the little toe and pushed the skin back off the nail on the next toe. Hurt like a .............. Any way i didn't go back to bed and my shoe don't feel very good. Oh well, Can't wait for summer.LOL

 

[valekbrothers]

Well wish i wasn't burning wood this morning, Woke up about four thirty and went and checked the stove. Carried a few logs to the stove and was half asleep. Then accidentally kicked the four logs barefooted. Took all the skin off the little toe and pushed the skin back off the nail on the next toe. Hurt like a .............. Any way i didn't go back to bed and my shoe don't feel very good. Oh well, Can't wait for summer.LOL

OWWWWW,,, my foot hurts just reading that.

 

[stihl sawing]

OWWWWW,,, my foot hurts just reading that.

LOL, I can laugh about it now, Just thinkin what a bonehead move. It wasn't funny this morning though.lol