These past couple years I’ve pretty much gotten away from hoarding when the temperature goes above 50. Of course there are exceptions, and today was one of them. I passed this on a backroad less than 5 minutes from my house. Red maple, pin oak and black locust. I loaded what I could in the constant drizzle. I have enough going on in my home life right now to keep me busy, so I’ll have to hide these way in the backyard until I can get to them. Hard to say no sometimes as I’m sure some can relate.
Hard to resist a wood score that easy. Better go back and get the rest of the BL. Dont make me come up there.
You are not along my friend, I can relate entirely. There are so many times in my life when there is a great score, but its just awful timing or the wrong situation. The urge to make it work is great and or passing it up is absolute torture.
Nice score Eric. Always hard to pass up a good one. I try to have as little of rules as possible Now, don’t make Brad come up there or me over there. Back you go,,,,
Seriously! I thought the same thing. Makes me wonder if they’ll have more for the taking if they took the time to make a sign like that.
I can work outside all day if it’s 20 degrees outside but quickly lose my patience when the sun is beating down and I’m chugging water. For me 50 is the threshold. Maybe I was born a displaced Alaskan
It’s been a white knuckle rollercoaster ride couple weeks here for me. This is week 3 out of work for me due to a collective bargaining debacle. Throw in a couple other bad life events and I just basically shut out the world for most of this month. Finally (knock on black locust wood) it seems like the light at the end of the tunnel is in sight… or maybe that’s just an oncoming train? Regardless, the moment felt right to get back at this score. Someone else had been cutting up the bulk of it but for some reason left the locust mostly untouched. I swooped in this afternoon. The 61 did the marking and the 288xp had it’s inaugural break-in run. Load #1: Nice big stump section but full of chain link fence remnants. Not for me. Load #2: The grand total, ready for splitting: It was raining steadily by the time I finished up, but well worth the aggravation for this kind of premium firewood.
When you come back you sure do make a statement. Thats a SWEET pile of BL. Hope life is on the upswing. FHC not the same without you!
Wow Eric that is a nice locust specimen. Big and solid. Gonna make a lotta primo firewood. Working in the woodpile helps even out the bumpy road of life.
