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Post by smsmith on Sept 8, 2017 17:38:49 GMT -6
By the time a guy turns about 45 years old.....you figure out that there is no fracking way in the world that burning firewood is a paying proposition. ......espeically when you add in the trips to the chiropractor, back surgery, and poor health. What a frigging waste of time making wood is. Get a second job if you need to pay the fuel bill......you will be money ahead! rant over. Don't forget chainsaws, chains, bars (cuz you're gonna bend/ruin one or two if you're really making wood), chain sharpeners (or paying to have them sharpened), fuel and oil for saws, chainsaw tune ups, fuel for vehicle(s) to haul wood from point A to point B, fuel for log splitter, and higher insurance rates for having a wood burner in/near your home.
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Post by Foggy on Sept 8, 2017 18:11:54 GMT -6
By the time a guy turns about 45 years old.....you figure out that there is no fracking way in the world that burning firewood is a paying proposition. ......espeically when you add in the trips to the chiropractor, back surgery, and poor health. What a frigging waste of time making wood is. Get a second job if you need to pay the fuel bill......you will be money ahead! rant over. Don't forget chainsaws, chains, bars (cuz you're gonna bend/ruin one or two if you're really making wood), chain sharpeners (or paying to have them sharpened), fuel and oil for saws, chainsaw tune ups, fuel for vehicle(s) to haul wood from point A to point B, fuel for log splitter, and higher insurance rates for having a wood burner in/near your home. PLUS....you need a trailer to haul it, a vehicle to pull the trailer, you need chaps, steel toe boots, hearing and eye protection, a hard hat, files, tools, A FURNACE TO BURN THE SHIT, an insulated chimney, chimney cleaning stuff, a few fire extinguishers, and flares, and fire poker tools, log carriers, a cleaning lady to wife soot from your windows (some call it a wife ) and a whole lot more!
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Post by Catscratch on Sept 8, 2017 18:13:02 GMT -6
Well crap... I'm 44!
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Post by Foggy on Sept 8, 2017 18:16:18 GMT -6
Now your getting schmarter!
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Post by Reagan on Sept 8, 2017 19:39:35 GMT -6
Me too. I like cutting wood. It's good exercise. Of course all of my wood cutting has been in the last 5-6 years since I've lived in a house with a fireplace. Dead ash in my back yard makes it pretty easy. I just have a saw and a maul. I just do it for a pretty fire, not for my heat.
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Post by buckvelvet on Sept 8, 2017 21:07:43 GMT -6
To be fair Foggy i work in an office man. Even though its hard work i enjoy any time in the woods.
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 8, 2017 21:15:51 GMT -6
I work from home. Any time away from home is great.
I aint sayin home sucks. Its great. But my cleanse is the moment I hit the OTC border every time I go norf.
I just wish I could live in OTC. My god would that make things better in many ways.
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Post by Foggy on Sept 8, 2017 21:17:23 GMT -6
To be fair Foggy i work in an office man. Even though its hard work i enjoy any time in the woods. No sweat! I understand. Just don't get into burning wood in an effort to save money. If you want to feel like your really wasting wood.....check my OUTDOOR fireplace that has a roof over an outdoor patio. We get little to no heat from this....but the ambiance is terrific! Enough to make a dedicated wood cutter cringe! lol ^ THIS being said from somebody who used to manufacture wood burning furnaces and boilers...lmao. (Kinda feel like the guys in the Stooges: Wille. Cheatem and Howe, Attorney's at Law")
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Post by nhmountains on Sept 8, 2017 21:46:31 GMT -6
We cut and clear 15-20 cord of wood a year from our land. I bring 2 cord home for my inlaws and 4-5 cord for myself. We hear the camp via wood in the winter along with propane. During the winter, my brother goes to the camp (which is only 2.5 miles from his work) in the mornings, lunch and after work keeping a fire going. On weekends he likes to get a roaring fire in the fireplace. This uses a lot of wood but, gives great ambiance. We always have plenty of wood so that is not an issue. Cutting and burning fire wood helps with excercise and helps us get rid of downed trees. This year was the first year we actually cut standing trees and that was to clear my orchard. Everything in the past has come from downed trees that would've rotted. If you add up the time invested and the costs I doubt we save anything but, the question could be asked why people pay a lot of money to hit little hard balls with a club and try to get them in a hole in the ground or spend money and time on their property trying to attract deer when they could spend less money on booking a hunt.
I'm guessing we will cut back on the wood cutting in the next 5-10 years as we get older.
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Post by smsmith on Sept 9, 2017 6:41:41 GMT -6
Trees are full of minerals, when they rot they return those minerals (and the OM they are composed of) to the soil. Rotting trees are simply big bags of fertilizer I understand the ambiance of a wood fire. I used to enjoy getting my old shop up to a nice temp with a glass faced wood stove (kept the shop cat happy too). The first thing the new owner did was to remove that wood stove. His insurance carrier would not cover that building with a wood stove. I still don't miss cutting, splitting, and stacking wood
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Post by jbird on Sept 9, 2017 19:07:33 GMT -6
Hedge and Ironwood have to be the absolute worst shit on this planet to cut for firewood. Talk about something that will ruin a chain on a saw in less than a minute! It may burn hot, but it's the hardest shit on the planet! I personally think splitting ironwood manually is humanly impossible!
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Post by sd51555 on Sept 9, 2017 23:45:03 GMT -6
To be fair Foggy i work in an office man. Even though its hard work i enjoy any time in the woods. When everything works, I enjoy cutting firewood. I enjoy it even more when it's doable or just fun wood for camp fires or offsetting propane use in the cabin. The furnace can be a handful at times, so I like to burn wood just so I can avoid having to battle getting the furnace going. The part that's tough is the 30 degree temp swings inside.
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Post by Catscratch on Sept 10, 2017 7:22:24 GMT -6
Hedge and Ironwood have to be the absolute worst shit on this planet to cut for firewood. Talk about something that will ruin a chain on a saw in less than a minute! It may burn hot, but it's the hardest shit on the planet! I personally think splitting ironwood manually is humanly impossible! Dang j... I love hedge. Maybe you're not doing it right. Seriously, I use to go through chains quick but my Stihl guy started putting a different cut on the teeth when he found out I like hedge and stay stay sharp a lot longer now. I do love when it sparks during a cut (hedge is the only wood that I know of that can spark while cutting)! All the ashes go on foodplots. I've heard it's a good source of fert.
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Post by smsmith on Sept 10, 2017 8:10:07 GMT -6
Hedge and Ironwood have to be the absolute worst shit on this planet to cut for firewood. Talk about something that will ruin a chain on a saw in less than a minute! It may burn hot, but it's the hardest shit on the planet! I personally think splitting ironwood manually is humanly impossible! Dang j... I love hedge. Maybe you're not doing it right. Seriously, I use to go through chains quick but my Stihl guy started putting a different cut on the teeth when he found out I like hedge and stay stay sharp a lot longer now. I do love when it sparks during a cut (hedge is the only wood that I know of that can spark while cutting)! All the ashes go on foodplots. I've heard it's a good source of fert. Ironwood (Am. Hophornbeam) sure sparks while cutting
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Post by chummer16 on Sept 10, 2017 15:32:50 GMT -6
I see lots of camp fire wood people along the roads here getting $5-6 for a bundle of crap wood that makes pretty campfires. What's camp fire wood going for out there? I'm thinking down the road I could set up a stand and sell it to help pay the camp taxes. I see it all over for $5-10, little roadside stands with the honor system cash box.
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