wood bug bites HARD

[ButtonRock]

  Eleven years ago my wife and myself bought a small ranch house on 55 acres, all hardwood forest. She's a horse nut and myself being a displaced city boy never knew they needed a place called "pasture" That year I bought my first chain saw at a yard sale for $20.Never ran one before.
   For the past 10 years friends stop by every sunday morning in the fall with their pickups and we cut until they are all full of cordwood, last year was a record 42 trucks
   8 years ago we had 30 oak trees cut and dragged from the back forty. Hired a woodmizer, cut 10,000 ft and built my wife a barn.
   7 yrs ago I bought my first Husqvarna which cost almost $450
   5 years ago I bought an old ford 2n to help me drag small logs and brushhog the ever expanding field.Never sat on a tractor before.
    4 years ago I bought my first log splitter with a 5 horse engine, talk about improvement.
    2 years ago I bought my second log splitter, This homemade one has a 60 horse willy's engine complete with log hoist
   Last year we bought a woodmaster outdoor furnace, Went threw 11 cords because I had a leaky gasket, live and learn
   This year I bought an old timberjack 230 cable skidder, never sat in one before,talk about a learning experience.
    I have heard that once you get sawdust in your boots Its awfully hard to get it out. I keep wondering to myself when the results of that first "bite" will end, but I must admit I am having an lot of fun.. Love this site, keep up the good work
Peter
    8) 8)

[Frank_Pender]

You got the bug alright.  Welcome to the Forum, ButtonRock (akaPeter)  Yes I understand the issue of pasture for those critters that the wife likes.  Only, I reversed the process, I planted trees. 8) 8) 8)  I have slowly but methodicaly taken back about 12 acres over the last 22 years.  I have doe so in whacks of about six acres at a time.  I only have  5 to go.  to cover that remaining portion.  When are you going to purchase you fist Mill? ;D ;D

[sawyerkirk]

When sawdust gets in your veins, there is only one way to end it, and I hope HE lets me have my "mizer" in Heaven!!

[woodman]

I hear  thay only have Orange up there. But thats something i think i heard but i'm old who knows.

[ButtonRock]

  Hopefully I won't have to buy a mill. When I hired the woodmizer the owner said "I will show up at sunrise and leave at sunset, the only breaks you will get is when I change blades and have to take a dump for I am not a bear and do not go in the woods" He was right I was so dog tired when he left each day I could hardly crawl into bed. I was reponsible for cleaning the logs, moving them closer to the mill, discarding the slabs into the slab pile and stacking the wood into the assorted stacks. He ran the mill. Its a good thing we were cutting a quarter of a mile into the woods. It would take him 40 minutes to reach the house do his business and return. It only took him 10 minutes to change blades. Before he left he said to me. "don't see to many people work like a dog,,,,you can work for me anytime" I was so happy to see that mill pull off the property. To this day we have been the best of friends. He has since returned and I sure he will return again, have to put an addition on the barn.