And what music would one hear this morning? Of course, let a cool north wind blow and the chainsaws come out like magic. Had 2 of them going not too far from us. I don't care what but I will say it surely felt good for a change to be able to work outside without feeling like you were in a sauna. Supposed to be really nice the next few days.
When the cold wind starts blowing and the leaves fall, I start thinking about a nice hot cup of coffee and hot apple pie. I can't eat pie crust for now, so I'll settle for baked apple.
Got out today and split/stacked a little of the Beech I have left, and I don't remember sweating at all. Totally unlike yesterday.
Maybe I am on the negative side, but with my silly neighbor, I just want to drive to his house and show him how to file his saw. Every year for the last 15 years it is the same silly thing... "whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr." Let off that thing and file your saw; your not cutting it, your lighting it on fire and just making the log mad.
Could you please do us a favor and send that cool air out east. I'm afraid this hurricane coming up from the gulf will bring that hot southerly flow next week.
My brother is the same way. My saw ran out of gas a few years ago and so I grabbed his saw to finish the cut. Talk about a dull saw. (One of my pet peeves is a dull saw...I am a tooth-taker I admit...but a dull saw I do not have). So then I start to file his saw and his file was just as dull as his chainsaw. "New chain, new file", been that way since the first chainsaw was ever invented.
True, many people buy the file and never use it. In their own mind it's easier to buy a new chain, especially if they don't use the saw often. I filed mine last week with the Stihl contraption and it was easy and fast too.
This is funny because my wife and I were working in the garden (she picking raspberries and I cutting corn) and I was thinking whoever was cutting was not too good at it when suddenly my wife said something like, "Why don't you go over there and show those guys how to sharpen a chain? You can tell just by listening to the saws they have dull chains." Yes, she nailed it!
Three cheers to that! I would much rather deal with spiders than mosquitos and flies any day. Wood processing just seems to go much faster without stopping to hydrate and wring out the hat every ten minutes, doesn't it?
I have a thing about dull chains, but honestly I go to some great lengths to keep my chain sharp too. One of the things I really like about my Wallenstein Log Trailer is that it keeps my wood up out of the mud. I am going to send some logs to market this week and see if a theory of mine holds up, and that is if a mud-less log scales better than ones with lots of mud. I know it should not matter, but a better looking log is a better looking log. That is why I always cut my limbs flush with a logs bole! (Not to mention when I was a kid a stub limb hit our rotary sawmill and went flying into my cheek nearly knocking me out. I know today they use bandsaws, but I still like my logs to be smooth).
When we were kids we had this out-of-stater show up and ask if he could have some corn. What did we care, we had plenty of it, so he was all thrilled saying how unbelievable the size was on the kernels of corn. We just kept shaking our heads never bothering to tell him he was taking silage corn. He never came back for more corn after that though.
Believe it or not, when I met my wife they ate field corn rather than grow sweet corn! They put sugar in the water as the corn was boiling. I tried one once but did not go for seconds. And after we married, she admitted the corn we grew tasted much better.
Thread drift I know, but you are a good garden to get sweet corn to grow. My wife has a tough time with it. My wife just cannot seem to get it to emerge well. And yes I have heard of eating silage corn as food, but was told it is not bad in corn chowder??? Myself, I grew up on a potato farm so this is potato ground; maybe that is why; gravelly loam type soil with a very low PH level.
Its not for a lack of manure. I have plenty of sheep that give lots of nitrogen in convenient pellet form! Funny how white wooly animals eating green grass can make red meat, yet also yellow pee and black poo.
