Nice e to see you working this score again. That's some really nice logs. to the hardest working hoarder out there... We found a big beech blown over from Helene on our place. Guess we need to jump on it quick.
Thanks Jeff. Gonna cut another load of beech either tomorrow or Saturday. Tomorrow's delivery takes me by there. And those big logs sure do makes splits fast. Not often I attack them. I have room for another half cord here at home and have a stove burner customer around the corner so I like having the better btu stuff for him.
I’ve had mine since I was 18. My dad bought it for me (along with the tools inside) as a graduation present when I finished high school. I’ve used it my whole life practically.
I got mine at an early age as well , I used the tools for years and still have them. This is when Craftsman tools were a great tool with a price to match and a warrantee they stood behind for years. One of the tool boxes itself is no doubt the one I started with. I think the main reason I got mine was Dad was sick of me using his tools. This was also a contribution to the road I went down as a career.
I remember one time my dad had a craftsman wrench that broke and we walked in to the local sears hardware department, my dad told the guy behind the counter the problem and he said just go grab yourself a new one off the rack and my dad did, showed it to the man and the man threw his old broken one in the trash and said “Have a nice day” and we walked out. Those were the days!!
Exactly , It was the same when I was growing up. They had a 55 gallon drum behind the counter that all the broken stuff went in. You could bring a ratchet back with a bad tooth and " bingo" new ratchet no questions asked. Today we have the expensive tool truck and if the ratchet is no good they rebuild the darn thing. And we pay top dollar for it. Wow times have changed.
And right next to the hardware department was sporting goods with firearms within reach of the customer. Of course they were locked into a display rack, but you could actually touch them.
Ted Williams was the Sears name on much of their sporting good line. Like you say ; it was literally right next to the tool department. This was a very popular store growing up.
One time my wife and I were Black Friday shopping at Sears, maybe 20 years ago. The sale prices hadn't been put into the registers. So here is a line of people wanting to check out while a frazzled employee is trying to fix this. Along comes a guy that burns wood and has a low tolerance for incompetence. He with a straight face says to the woman " you might want to do this before the doors open next time." If looks could kill. This was about the time you could start to see Sears wasn't keeping up with the times.
Who, me? LOL! My wife thought maybe I shouldn't have said it, but she's nicer and more tolerant than I am.
My Father was a pilot in the Navy and we moved around a lot to new duty stations. It was always a chore to figure out the best local home grown hardware and department stores as you moved in to a new area. The one reliable store just about anywhere was Sears! This thought was echoed by many service families. From school clothes and supplies to woodworking tools or appliances, they had it all and of dependable quality. If there was not a Sears close in then there was the catalog to order from. Away back then if you ordered an out of stock item then Sears would often ship a substitution (usually the next better item that you ordered) at no extra cost. I remember that Dad got the "Sears Best" table saw when he had ordered a lesser model that was not available (they hoped he would find this satisfactory). They had a lot of loyal customers in service connected families!
The only pants I had as a kid were Toughskins. Probably wore them to church too. I don’t remember having anything else. It was Sears, Wards, Kmart or nothing.
Split most of the oak today. Cold, crisp and very picturesque in the fresh snow. One mound of heartwood and the other bark on. They get stacked separately.
Id rather not have any snow. Its the coldest of the season here now. The little snow makes working on firewood annoying even though I have gloves and covered rounds ahead of time.
Split the rest of the beech and the Norway maple from my recent cut. Most came back here to stack. Some of the Norway went to bundle wood inventory.
Gonna make an attempt at splitting tomorrow. You’re right, the snow is annoying enough to make the decision not too when it’s this cold
