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Title: Thought Id be smart
Post by: FiLtH on October 10, 2006, 03:08:40 PM

And have some firewood on hand this year. Ive taken a few hours this afternoon stacking some of it. Now I know why the luxury of oil heat is so expensive.  This blows.

Title: Thought Id be smart
Post by: Yeager on October 10, 2006, 03:12:42 PM

thats what seperates us from the animals man!  All we need to do is flip a switch, we get heat.  Same with hot water and cold food.  Ice!  think about it!  Hell...the Bic lighter is a frikkin marvel of human evolution through advanced engineering.  Im betting there are places in afganistan where human life isn't as valued as a Big lighter....or a orio cookie!

Title: Thought Id be smart
Post by: FiLtH on October 10, 2006, 03:21:26 PM

It got me thinking with all this North Korea crap going on, how fragile our way of life is. I tried to imagine myself foraging for food, scavanging firewood...I could'nt.

Title: Thought Id be smart
Post by: Nilsen on October 10, 2006, 03:22:47 PM

I chop firewood every spring.. Its great! You work up a sweat and you get that great feeling that you are doings something real. Its so different from the numbers i work with for a living.

Title: Thought Id be smart
Post by: FiLtH on October 10, 2006, 04:44:45 PM

I think I worked too hard at too young an age, for too long. I'm burnt out on work I guess.

Title: Thought Id be smart
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on October 10, 2006, 05:29:45 PM

I dearly love cutting firewood. The next house will have more than one fireplace and a big woodburning stove.

Since my mother and my mother-in-law are both getting away from wood heat, my big Stihl chainsaw is going to sit pretty much dormant for a while. I used to love to split wood as well, but after I got out of shape it gave me a headache, so we got a power splitter. It's gone now, so I'll have to get in better shape or buy another one.

Title: Thought Id be smart
Post by: doobs on October 10, 2006, 08:27:03 PM

Comon filth ya gotta luv choppin and stacking firewood.


It's the only legal way to use an axe a sledge a maul and a wedge.

oh and don't forget the chainsaw.
(won't go into the illegal ways to use them)

not to mention the money you save for a day of work.

Title: Thought Id be smart
Post by: Debonair on October 10, 2006, 08:40:54 PM

i never though of the dough you save, but thats about my favorite project, taking down a big tree in the spring & having it ready to burn by fall.  i dont know how much $ i save, cause i keep breaking mauls, but i've learned that a penny saved is a lot more than one earned (it is tax free)

Title: Thought Id be smart
Post by: doobs on October 10, 2006, 10:58:19 PM

Burning wood saves me at least 2k during winter