Did you enjoy putting up firewood as a kid?

No CSS as a kid, didn’t burn wood until my current house built in 2015. Trying to get my 16 year old son into it, but he’s not real interested. He’ll come out and help stack but that’s about it. He’s not real interested in using a saw or splitting. Hopefully as he gets older we can have more father son time CSS.

 

I didn't care for it. Dad worked in the woods and he had little interest in doing firewood. He would bring home a log truck load of logs in the spring and I would C/S/S till it was done. Usually took till Halloween. I used a Pioneer P 61 for the cutting 28 inch bar. Alot of saw for a 12-17 year old, but this was 1983-1988 things were pretty old school then

 

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Have you noticed how high school kids keep getting younger?

 

I always enjoyed being in the woods but never really enjoyed getting up wood. My dad and uncle always ran the saws and my cousin and I did the labor such as pulling the branches away and stacking them, splitting the rounds with a splitting maul and on the tough rounds a wedge. Then loading the wood into a trailer to pull up to the pickup to load. All that kind of took the fun out of it. But now unfortunatly I have to do everything myself. Wish my dad was here to help me for many reasons.

 

I never did firewood as a kid, didn't start until in my 40s. I will speak for my boys,,,,they hate it. They would sometimes cry when I said, "Let's go to the wood lot..." I do remember my youngest telling me once, maybe twice, after a day of splitting and stacking, "Dad, I really liked doing this with you today..."! I will take it!!! I have given them all of the money from the sales the past 8-10 years, so they have a nice bank account.

My 17 year old is okay with it now because he gets to keep all the money from the sales now. He does not have a job so he likes the money. As soon as he turned 16, we relieved the little one of firewood duties, and the little guy was not complaining, lol.

 

Yes, at first dad traded wood for money off their car repairs so it was delivered to our home. Later in jr. high mom and dad bought 60 acres to keep me busy and it had 20 acres of woods. So we then cut our own wood and we had no electric out there so watered the horses and pigs with a hand pump and used a steel trough and built a fire under it each night to thaw it out. At home after the first year dad built me a "mud boat". Got me a collar and harness to fit my pony and hooked to that mud boat and hauled wood to the front porch. A mud boat is usually a homemade sled to be pulled by a horse or team of horses. Mine was about 4' wide and 6' long with oak 2x4's under it for skis.

 

Car/truck hoods work quite well for getting up loads of wood, especially in the snow. Would be similar to your mud boat. Dad spent quite a bit of time pulling us kids behind the horse on an old truck hood. Fun stuff!!

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