Im with Jeff on that one. Dont mind some drizzle or if it sprinkles a bit. Split some under those conditions yesterday.
The only time I've split in the dark is when it's humid and pushing close to 100 day after day. I will generally watch a baseball game on tv, take a nap and wake up around 11pm and split until 2 or 3 am.
Hey B.Brown I spent too many years working construction in rainy Washington State to say I would enjoy wood cutting in the conditions you were in but you gotta do what you gotta do to get the wood in! Have to respect that kind of dedication! The best part of that kind of work is the reward of warming up next to a woodstove with a hot mug of something. Your shoulders, which have been stiff and tight to ward off the cold, begin to relax and legs tingle with returning circulation. As you settle back into your big, warm chair you begin to think "See, that wasn't so bad"! Then you go out and do it again the next day! Hats off to you my Friend!
Thank you!! ha,ha, i did the same type of work in the eastern part of the state, PNW, HOT in the summer Colder than all get out in the winter, and under ground in the sewers, both live and new stuff. NOT fun, but, we never had a problem getting seating in a restaurant during lunch, ha,ha. Your right about warming up next to the stove. One winter i was cutting wood in a big clear cut, i'd go up at dark, start hooking up good stuff and pulling it out to where i was going to cut it. Meanwhile it was raining hard, as i came out with a load, i noticed water running across the cat road. A day or 2 later i'm back at it again, i see the water had cut into the cat road, hmmmmm not good. Then it started snowing off and on, more rain, bigger cut int he cat road. The last trip i made out, it was scetchy on me getting through the cut the water had made the first day. I'd come home, wet, cold and still had to unload the pickup and get things ready to head back out a couple of days later. I've thought every thought you described lol. Fingers numb from cold wet gloves, wind, i wouldn't stop except to wring my gloves out, or change into a ''less wet shirt'' under my rain gear, ha,ha. Almost nothing like a nice dry long sleeved shirt when your soaked. Then just before i'd get the last couple of nice chunks of wood loaded i fire up the pickup, put the heater on HIGH!!! Get in, whoof down a peanut butter and honey sandwich head out, nice and slow getting warmer as i leave the site. BOY, that felt SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good Oh yeah, it does make you appreciate the little things in life, but, i like it. Come in the house, get a really hot shower, cup of hot tea, some chips or some thing else to eat, turn the tv on the dog jumps on my lap, i recline, the chair , the stoves cookin along nice and warm. I take a little nap, the whole world is at peace, or that's how i feel anyway. The wife comes home and say's ''so, what did you do today''. HA, HA, i just stare at her, and say, ''you honestly don't want to know, you'd never understand, ha,ha.ha. LIFE IS GOOD!! Then, ''we'' do it all over again, lol.
Was up cutting wood today, still lot's of mud, but no rain, yet, more coming thursday. It wasn't dark, but, at least i made it up there.
thanks Jeff, i've had bigger one's, but, this stuff was just logged and really heavy, mostly fir, i did accidentally cut a little white fir, its really heavy! And, i hand split all of it just to keep the Fiskars in shape, lol. People say loggers ruin the ground, i beg to differ, they pile the limbs, and other junk wood, LEAVE logs for the birds, bugs, and other small animals. Then plant back a huge amount of the same wood they took off. A friend of mine had 20 acres of his property just logged, they planted back 4 THOUSAND tree's. Then, it will be thinned and some selective logging eventually will take place. Some other species of hard woods will come back, maple, madron, alder, yew wood voluntarily. At times it might look like total destruction, but that is far , far from the truth. Even the machines tilling the earth help the eco system to flourish, then the smaller seeds from the berry's to the flowers start to grow again as well. My permit is good till the 15th of March, so, you can bet i'll take the saw along every time i get close to there to find some that i need to make a new home for. lol.
Yes sir, it looks rough when just logged. They do the same here. Lots of clear cuts, then usually sprayed, burned off and replanted in yellow pine. Some land is mined for kaolin clay, the reclaimed and replanted.
It is written in the good book of chainsaws that Stihls never are left on bare ground. And that's the final answer.
In the winter I tend to do most chores at night. Having to be to work at 530 am and by the time I get home and get back outside its usely dark again. So I have split in the dark, I find it peaceful at night. My SO is always asking me why I do stuff outside in the dark all the time, I just always tell her it doesn't bother me. It's really nice when you got a full moon with snow on the ground, it's just like working in the day.
Its a 2002 toyota tundra, 4x4 i bought it new,its got high miles, 38, 500, lol. If it wasn't a 4 wheel drive i'd never got to where i was ,pretty soupy stuff. It was a pretty heavy load, thinking about some air bags.
