Found a Beauty

[WV Sawmiller]

   I can't ever remember hearing or using the term before but I suspect a twitch is very similar to a mess like a mess of fish or a mess of turnip greens with significant flexibility involved in the application.  If you get too worried about the exact dimensions and volume/weight involved and get a headache we can ask Danny to bring some extra strength placebos when he comes to explain it to you.

[Magicman]

Or you could go to the "Extras" above and look in the FF Dictionary.  :P

[thecfarm]

My Father used that twitching word all the time. Twitching out wood. I would susupect that came from the horse,oxen days. He used the wood about a tractor or a skidder too.

[WV Sawmiller]

Or you could go to the "Extras" above and look in the FF Dictionary.  :P

OK, I double checked that and IMHO, the current definition could use just a little "tweaking".

[Magicman]

True, but I ain't a tweaker, I'm a twitcher.  ;D

[rjwoelk]

My butt starts to tingle when i hear the word twitch. Dad just had to give the warning and i would shape up really fast.

[rjwoelk]

But if you fix a twitch to get it out of the bush . You may tweak and twitter about it bit .

[Resonator]

From what I understand, a twitch refers to any single log or group of logs being skidded out of the woods. The term gets its name from the side to side swinging of the longs (especially tree length) as they are pulled around corners, much like the twitching of an animals tail.

[Magicman]

From what I understand, a twitch refers to any single log or group of logs being skidded out of the woods.

Our understanding is the same.  

[Southside]

And now who can describe a "Dooryard" ?  ;D

[Magicman]

I ain't from New England, but I saw plenty of them while traveling there.  ;D

[Roxie]

I sure hope Marty shares some pictures of his finished floor.  Love a floor with character and history.  smiley_heart

[Sheepkeeper]

And now who can describe a "Dooryard" ?  ;D

That would be the yard outside your door as opposed to the yard outside your window which would properly be called a "Windowyard"  ;D ;D ;D

[WDH]

 we can ask Danny to bring some extra strength placebos when he comes to explain it to you.

If it does not involve vessel elements or sclerids, I can't explain it. 

[Magicman]

 

 
We bucked, split, and hauled the three twitches of firewood this evening.


 
Ben taking his turn with the splitter.  It was dark when we finished so no pictures of the two full trailer loads of split firewood.  A 10' shown above and also a 16'; total was a bit over two measured cords.  ;D

[trapper]

You always say WE but I never see you doing any of the work.

[DelawhereJoe]

The supervisor just make sure the jobs get finished and done safely, if the boss gets involved then no one is happy.

[LeeB]

That should be enough firewood to supply all of Brookhaven for next year. 

[Magicman]

Actually none was for me, it will all go to Marty's MIL.  That should be enough to last her 3 years.  There is another Red Oak down beside the creek that I plan to get for my use.  Getting enough firewood is never a problem here. 

[Resonator]

Getting enough firewood is never a problem here. 

Board footage and cord woodage!    

[Magicman]

Very descriptive!  Yes this started with a very nice fallen Red Oak that will become board footage. 

Sadly many trees fall into the creek.  With the Tajfun I can now recover some of them but if they are those 30"+ Red Oaks they just have to rot where they fall.  Double blocking this one was the only way that I could have recovered the butt log and it wasn't in the creek.

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

Sorry to come in late on this one but in my experience, if you're standing at the stern of a bovine and notice it beginning to twitch, you're about to be smacked, either by the bovine's tail or by the stench of the end product of the digestive track...

Herb

[Magicman]

I went by and took pictures of the two trailers this morning.


 
The 10' trailer.


 
And the 16'.  I know that by "Glacial" standards this ain't much, but for us "Tropical" guys it's about a three year's supply. 

[Andries]

MM:
A nice load of 'cord woodage' - those two loads would heat my shop for at least a month or two up here in the glaciated up-yonder. (quoted from thee one and only WDH)
My eyebrows go up whenever I see Carharts, logging winches and log splitters without a solid 20 cm of white snow. 
How is that even possible ?
:D  ;D  :D 

[thecfarm]

Almost like hearing Brig Crosby sing,I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas in MS.  ;D