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Colder here. What's your temp? What ya burnin?

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17 outside with a 10mph north wind. 73 inside burning hickory splits and an ash round. I got my buck quartered up this afternoon planning on grinding and canning during the cold this week. Also have 4 dump trailer loads of hackberry walnut elm that I scrounged out of a fence row Friday. Also a little osage orange.

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When does the real cold weather hit ya?
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Traditionally, January is the coldest month. But, here we are near the end of Jan, so.....who knows what's left? I haven't heard any fat lady singing yet!

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yooperdave said: ↑

Traditionally, January is the coldest month. But, here we are near the end of Jan, so.....who knows what's left? I haven't heard any fat lady singing yet!
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Our January has been colder than usual with more cold azz temps here tonight with more forecast for this week. It's January 23, the worst has to be over!

thewoodlands, Jan 23, 2022

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We got about 5" of nice fluffy snow this morning and the sun came out, it was beautiful. Shop stove is loaded with Oak & Beech to do the heavy work tonight, while the boiler got Spruce to burn down the coals. This is about as good as it gets for winter here and I'm hoping it lasts for a while. Work has eased off some & log skidding needs to become the priority. It's been 3-4 years since the ground has frozen up this hard and I need to take advantage.

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welcome to the forum Perry long jr
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Thanks, I used to be own another forum years ago. I remember you being own there. Always enjoyed your posts.

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30/76 Oak.

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Cold Trigger Finger said: ↑

Okay, we gotta have a talk about This.
They were loggin Maine bald , Long before even any Caucasian settlers had made it to the Midwest. Which was a far gone frontier.
The Peavey was invented in Stillwater / Old Town Maine.
Paul Bunyan was around back when Maine was part of the Massachusetts Colony and they were loggin white pine for English ship masts. Before the Revolutionary War.
Long before there were Ya Der Hey's.
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Lol Yoopers.

In an Era of Hyperbole, Paul Bunyan Is as Tall as Ever (Published 2016)

The tale of Paul Bunyan started in the late 19th century. The tales were documented to have started in the Midwest. Since Wisconsin was deemed a state in 1848, Minnesota in 1858, and Michigan in 1837, the timeline adds up. Especially when Maine was logged bald way before that time, so Paul Bunyan wouldn't have had any trees to cut down in Maine in the late 1800's.

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Cold Trigger Finger

This is from wikipedia.

Early references[edit]

The first Paul Bunyan statue (Bemidji, Minnesota)
Michael Edmonds states in his 2009 book Out of the Northwoods: The Many Lives of Paul Bunyan that Paul Bunyan stories circulated for at least thirty years before finding their way into print. In contrast to the lengthy narratives abundant in published material, Paul Bunyan "stories" when told in the lumbercamp bunkhouses were presented in short fragments.[5] Some of these stories include motifs from older folktales, such as absurdly severe weather and fearsome critters.[10] Parallels in early printings support the view that at least a handful of Bunyan stories hold a common origin in folklore.

The first known reference of Paul Bunyan in print appeared in the March 17, 1893 issue of Gladwin County Record. Under the local news section for the area of Beaverton, it reads, "Paul Bunion [sic] is getting ready while the water is high to take his drive out."[11] This line was presumably an inside joke, as it appeared over fifteen years before any commercial use of the Paul Bunyan name. At the time, few within the general public would have known who Paul Bunyan was.

The earliest recorded story of Paul Bunyan is an uncredited 1904 editorial in the Duluth News Tribune which recounts:

His pet joke and the one with which the green horn at the camp is sure to be tried, consists of a series of imaginative tales about the year Paul Bunyan lumbered in North Dakota. The great Paul is represented as getting out countless millions of timber in the year of the "blue snow". The men's shanty in his camp covered a half section, and the mess camp was a stupendous affair. The range on which an army of cookees prepared the beans and "red horse" was so long that when the cook wanted to grease it up for the purpose of baking the wheat cakes in the morning, they strapped two large hams to his feet and started him running up and down a half mile of black glistening stove top.[12]

Each of these elements recurs in later accounts, including logging the Dakotas, a giant camp, the winter of the blue snow, and stove skating. All four anecdotes are mirrored in J. E. Rockwell's "Some Lumberjack Myths" six years later,[13] and James MacGillivray wrote on the subject of stove skating in "Round River" four years before that.[14] MacGillivray's account, somewhat extended, reappeared in The American Lumberman in 1910. The American Lumberman followed up with a few sporadic editorials, such as "Paul Bunyan's Oxen", "In Paul Bunyan's Cook Shanty", and "Chronicle of Life and Works of Mr. Paul Bunyan". Rockwell's earlier story was one of the few to allude to Paul Bunyan's large stature, "eight feet tall and weighed 300 pounds", and introduce his big blue ox, before Laughead commercialized Paul Bunyan, although W. D. Harrigan referred to a giant pink ox in "Paul Bunyan's Oxen", circa 1914.[15] In all the articles, Paul Bunyan is praised as a logger of great physical strength and unrivaled skill.

Interesting. Even though Maine may have had sawmills (50?) near the end of the 17th century, Michigan (Beaverton) is the first reference of Paul was in March 1893. First statue was in Minnesota.

It is interesting to find out that Paul Bunyan originated in Michigan.

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Thanks for sparking my interest to research it Cold Trigger Finger !
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Same here. It's just always been a big underlying story here in the upper Midwest. Heck, even the Wisconsin Badgers and Minnesota golden gophers have their annual Battle for Paul Bunyan's axe football game.

Oh yeah.

9° out, 75° in. Ash and elm in the stove.

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Cold Trigger Finger said: ↑

Maineacs were working too hard to sit around in the bunkhouse writing stories that they all already knew.
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Maine can have the goatman that wears a flannel on the top of katahdin and that Pamola eagle thing. Lol

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-4/65 Just reloaded with some Ash. Fell asleep in front of the fire with one of the dogs, woke up cold and everyone had gone to bed and left me.

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2/70
It hasn't gone below zero as forecast and the house is warm.

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Yellow Birch, Beech, and Ash in the Wood Gun.

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Woke up to 19* , BL, cherry and a split of pine ontop of overnight coals. Suppose to get to mid 30s tomorrow. I hope it will thaw out my water line. Not holding my breath though. I hope it gets above freezing for a couple days soon. Going to the creek to get water for the toilet is starting to become a PITA.

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Light snow 16 degrees out and 73 in. Will load with Oak and get the work started.

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14 when I got up at 7. Loaded cherry on some nice chunks of locust coals. 70 inside.

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-1 out with 2-3 in of fluffy snow overnight. Red oak in the OWB.

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24/70 just loaded cherry in the Buck. 2-4 inches of new snow today so I went ear!y while it was just flurries and topped off the patio shed. Knee scope surgery tomorrow so want to make sure I have wood close. This week looks cold.
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Good luck with this my friend.

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Traditionally, January is the coldest month. But, here we are near the end of Jan, so.....who knows what's left? I haven't heard any fat lady singing yet!
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There is a fat rodent waiting to see if the sun will shine.

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Perry long jr said: ↑

Thanks, I used to be own another forum years ago. I remember you being own there. Always enjoyed your posts.
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Thanks Perry. That has indeed been a long time ago but we're still around and kicking. Just not able to kick as high nor as hard as we used to.

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Buenos snowshoes. We're up to almost 1/2" already. May have to take time to go to the store for bread, milk and tp soon.

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