It sounded to me like you were on the thin side. I say that because you said you were #137 pounds, but 5'7" in height if I remember. My wife is only 5'-5" and at #130 pounds looked really good I thought, but then again I am not into chicken legged woman anyway. In fact I thought the "plus" sized model in last years Miss USA looked pretty good, but then again she was considered a plus size and wore a size 4 dress. Jeesh, how could a lady that size pick up rounds and put them on a wood splitter? Good news those, they just said on the radio this morning that the average woman size went from size 14 to size 16 so everyone under size 16 has got some more breathing room. Celebrate I say with a tub of Ben and Jerry's!
You know I haven't looked at the "insurance" charts or health charts or the airline requirements for height/weight for years to see if I fall within the bell curve- cause I don't have to-what this country needs is smaller portions=more fit people= get off ur ars and do something...repeat after me: cut, lift, split, stack....cut, lift, split, stack....cut, lift, split, stack--now you got it!!
Apparently you missed my upside down wood splitter build to which I must say, its sole intention is to alleviate much of that nonsense. I do a lot of volunteer work at a Christian camp near me and every year they do a Firewood bee where 40-50 guys get together and knock out 80 cords of wood in 2-1/2 days. I was put on a woodsplitter and about an hour into the job I was praying I would have the stamina to last the rest of the day. The guy in charge kept saying, "it is for an outside wood boiler, they can be split bigger then that", and I was like, "then you throw it up on to the truck." It was not so much lifting the rounds as it was tossing big chunks of split wood to the back of the trucks and trailers that wore me out. Now sitting on my rump running levers and not having to neither lift rounds, nor throw split wood; I am ALL FOR THAT!
I'd like to reiterate that after a weekend talking to "guys" it will be essential to me to share an interest in woodcutting and processing to give us something "other" to do....and to each of them I posed this question: do you think I have "man-hands"? and the answer was a resounding NO! please see new manicure...
Oh Oh, cat claw- a move learned in another life- terminal for the recipient. Man hand? No, no calluses
I am sorry Scavanger, it seems I hit a nerve and certainly did not mean too. Of course that either means you are really using effective gloves or not pitching enough firewood! (More than once the sheep have gotten out and I have watched Katie chase sheep in a miniskirt. Now that is interesting!)
don't worry, I can hold my own--now if you're suggesting I don a miniskirt (or otherwise go scantily clad) and chase the lost, loose or otherwise confused pets (or heck--men) around the neighborhood--there's got to be a more dignified way...
another defeatist statement--sure that wasn't supposed to be the other way around to give me a slap on the back instead of a kick in the knee caps?
