Bringin' up da Wood

[SwampDonkey]

I'll take another eight of them piles. ;D

[goose63]

No need for fire wood right now 11 days in the 90s   

[Southside]

How is your heater wood supply doing Magicman?  Gonna make it through the rest of this season?  :D

[mike_belben]

I'll take another eight of them piles. ;D

Sure, i'll mark em and you can come fish em out anytime!  
:D

[SwampDonkey]

I got lots standing up here, you can come cut and yard. :D :D

[mike_belben]

 8)

[Andries]

No need for fire wood right now 11 days in the 90s  

. . . and the Weather Guessers are calling for another week of the same.
Yikes!
I guess it's that time of year when some of the deep South boys make the comment that they've never met an air conditioner that they didn't love.

[mike_belben]

No AC, and drinkin warm water in the sun like a real redneck.

[Magicman]

How is your heater wood supply doing Magicman?  Gonna make it through the rest of this season?  :D

Marty and I were looking at it after clearing all of the roads before the 4th.  I will soon be in the skidding business and the Grandsons will be splitting & hauling.  Their other Grandparents have no firewood source so that is their job our privilege. 

[Magicman]

You guys talking about firewood got me concerned so I brought two loads up from  da woodshed this morning.  Since PatD has a "broken wing" I mostly brought up split slabwood. 


 This should be enough to last 'till Christmas. 

[doc henderson]

remember to not start burning till the outside plants have lost their flowers!      smiley_daisy

[cutterboy]

Well Magicman, since you brought your firewood up to the house I figured I better do the same. So out to the barn to where my wood is stored and fill my little dump trailer.


 

 

 
Then down around to the back of the house to the basement sliders, unload the wood into a wheelbarrow, wheel it over to the stack and unload. Do that twice more to empty the trailer, then back to the barn for another load.


 

 

 
This should be enough to last till Christmas. ;D

[Magicman]

You brought up enough to last me 'till Christmas, 2024.  Yikes !!! 

Looks like I will have to build a flicker Wednesday AM 32°, and Thursday AM 34° then back in the 80°'s next week.

[Jeff]

My truck got a glazed look from the cold here.


 

[chet]

If ya wuz on this end of da UP yer truck would be covered with white stuff, not red right now.  :(   

[SwampDonkey]

Hopefully won't see that ice here until end of Nov. :D Been in the 60's here lately. I have 10 cords to move out of the woods, for next year. ;D

[barbender]

I hadn't even clicked on this thread yet this fall, because I know that "Bringin up da' wood" by Magicman is going to be a short story😊

[Magicman]

Yup, you guys just don't understand how much firewood it takes for us to stay cozy this far South of the Glaciated Zone !! 

[barbender]

I really feel for ya'😊 Honestly, I'd rather cut and split my 8 cords than deal with all the hot and muggy y'all have down there!

[Old Greenhorn]

Yup, you guys just don't understand how much firewood it takes for us to stay cozy this far South of the Glaciated Zone !!  

No, we don't. We are all trying to parse out how you can go through an entire season on a weeks worth of wood. :D

[SwampDonkey]

If ya ever need a freight train of wood, just drive north a little into the firewood zone. :D

[Magicman]

I'd rather cut and split my 8 cords than deal with all the hot and muggy y'all have down there!

If'en you wus cutting-n-splitting in dis hot-n-muggy weather you would understand.  Da sacrifice is made in da Summer, not da Winter.   :D

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[SwampDonkey]

Now that there is backward to northern firewood cut'n. Cut in the cool of fall/winter to keep warm doing the job, not to cool off. :D

[Al_Smith]

I get it done before the frost is on the pumpkin .When cold weather hits it takes me about 15 minutes daily to fill the box inside and a half hour about every week to fill up the trailer .The later is parked up next to my garage door . I load the trailer in the afternoon when it's the warmest .The older I get the less I like winter ,humbug . 

[Magicman]

Fact is my firewood is the result of clearing fallen trees, and not as actually falling trees for firewood.  I have ~7 miles of trails/roads on my property and keeping them open is a constant chore.  I will often clear a fallen tree by bucking firewood and stacking it beside the road for later retrieval, only to see it rot.  I saw a nice whack Monday that is now too far gone.

Here is a good example that happened on June 30th:  LINK 

Scroll down to Reply #6 for the actual removal. None of this firewood has been brought out yet, but I saw it today and it is certainly OK.