I am burnt out with wood. I've been hitting it pretty good the last couple months and im ready to wrap up the hoarding season. However the neighbor just went ape cutting trees in his yard and he don't burn wood so I have that to tend to now can't pass it up so close to home. Another friend is about to start a clearing job so I'll have more coming in from that if weather cooperates And I have about 40-50 more ash trees to take down here I think they will be a fall project Burning season is over for me it's time to hit the garden and the 10 other projects I need to do. Im ready for a break from firewood. Im honestly just wore out
Understandable Woodrat. It happens to many and there is no shame in it. Besides, there are so many other projects that demand your time during the warmer weather. This is one of the reasons we do our cutting in the winter months. We try to be finished with the splitting and stacking by mid April and usually get it done but lately that has not happened all the time. As for those 40-50 ash trees that have to come down, if those are infected by the EAB, then don't worry. We probably have about double that to take down yet and we've been cutting mostly ash since 2002. Not only have we burned a lot and there are still lots in the stacks, we've given away perhaps 25 cord. We're still up to our elbows in ash but we don't mind. We just take it one day at at time. Be sure to enjoy the summer. On the neighbor's trees, can you cut them into, say, 8' lengths and get them onto your place then finish the bucking next fall? That would shorten the time needed for the work now.
I think most of us kind of cool it down for a while each year. Summer is a great time to put it on hold with the heat and flying bugs.
We just did a big job yesterday (5 trees), my buddy lined it all up. I had planned on walking away from all the wood at this site but it turned out to be two 50' hickories and a huge white oak, along with two red maples. Couldn't bear to let those hickory trees and I also ended up keeping the trunk from the white oak. Gave the rest to my buddy. I ended up with a heaping truckload and half a trailer load of hickory and white oak. He got a heaping truck and heaping trailer load of white oak and red maple..... After the backbreaking job that maple syrup season turned into, I was hoping for a break.....but now the tree work is coming in.....ugh..... My point being is you aren't alone, no shame in being burned out. Happens to all of us..... Hang in there, Buddy
...or you can do a mandatory take-out like I did. May be several months before I can do any project again.
I don't like doing anything wood related in the heat of summer. I've got wood to get in from the woods and S&S'd, but I've got an easy 2 years worth that was dead and already dry enough to burn when I cut it up. I'll split some tomorrow afternoon. If I can get my 1 cord I got out of the woods split up tomorrow, I'll be happy. It looks like my buddy and I will be able to haul more out next weekend.
Just because we are a little sick of fire wood, doesn't mean we don't want to work on other projects.
Believe me, it isn't by choice, this smashed left elbow really doesn't want to play right now............
I imagine that there's a lot of stuff you want to get done, and can't. What's the prognosis for riding the motorcycle?
Unknown @ this time. Right now I am relegated to the "sit on my big arse and heal" mode. May know more when I see the surgeon later this week.
Hang in there buddy.......listen to docs orders.... Still a while before the gooder weather will be here.....
Surprisingly, I have been adhering strictly. Every time I look out in the back yard, I see the 7 cord of Oak that I had finished blocking that day. It keeps yelling @ me to come out and split it, That is definitely out of the question now. Then I see all the standing dead out back that I had big plans for before the heat and bugs came. Same deal. Only high point I am enjoying right now is that I'm able to wipe my own butt with my "other" hand...........................
They already cut not to firewood length but manageable im just going to stack them in rounds until fall gets here and split them up then
