Firewood

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(11-18-2019, 05:58 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Anyone here cut their own firewood?

This will be the third winter since my father died and I moved in with my mom.  My mom chills and insists on using a wood stove to heat our house.  It is a modern two-story brick split-level home.  It has central heat and air, but when my mom gets a chill she says the air coming out of the registers (electric heat) just is not warm enough.

We live on a 150 acre farm with unlimited access to trees, but unfortunately they are almost all on hillsides.  This makes it tough work to get the wood out.  I am old and soft from working in an office for years, so I usually just work 2-3 hours at a time cutting wood.  But this last Saturday I hired a couple of my cousins sons to help and I wanted to get as much done as possible while I had them.  So I ended up working myself way too hard.  The chainsaw I have now (Echo 590) is really too big and heavy for trimming.  So it wears me out to swing it around for long.  Then I worked the pneumatic splitter.  A can sit to do this, but it involves moving huge pieces of wood onto the splitter so my entire upper body was hurting.

When I finally finished and went in to shower I could not bend my arms for long to do things like wash my hair without my biceps cramping.  I had plans to go to a party Saturday night so I laid down to try and take a short nap about 5:00.  When my mom woke me it was close to seven and I could barely walk when I tried to get out of bed.

This is the type of work I used to do on a regular basis when I was younger, but it kills me know.  I really need to get back to some form of regular exercise.  Either that or start buying all my firewood.

Yep I've been doing wood since I was old enough to lift a piece onto the wagon. The only time I haven't had to do wood was the 8 years I was stationed in Lousiana and Overseas.


The thing about wood heat is that once you're used to it nothing else compares it really different. I have free natural gas and still heat with wood...even though I have a couple wall heaters in the basement.

And yes Farm work is very hard with very little return.