I was in a BBQ joint this summer where our waitress wore a T-shirt that read...."I Like Pig Butts...."
A good friend and I went out to a place where a Lot of bunches are decked. Its where I work and the wood has to go to make room for the pit.. I had pulled some stumps with the Hoe and smoothed some of the worst holes . I led the way in to show him where to go. I backed up to a bunch, he backed up to a couple bunches and we started bucking and loading our respective trucks. I've seen this friend greatly improve in his saw handling and overall knowledge and skills when it comes to cutting , loading and processing his firewood. We've been at it intermittently for 8 years. He just turned 30 and of course I'm alot older. I was Very happy to see he is coming along well on keeping his. chain sharp and well jointed . And his bar maintained. He was running his Husky 450. I was running my 455. We each had our trucks loaded at about the same time.
Took us around 1 1/4 hours to buck and load the trucks. I bucked some stumps out of my way . While we were there another friend and his son showed up and backed up to another bunch . As I was putting a ratchet strap on another friend showed up with his SUV and a trailer. I wanted to take a pic but got busy. . I was a great day. About 10°f . Clear and calm
Nice catch, CFT. Always a nice feeling to get it close to home. I wish I could get some closer to home. I have to get out and get more, also. Have off Tues and Wed.
I don't think it is a full 128 cuft. But the old 3/4 ton needs to be babied in rough ground. So I held it to roof line. Sure did enjoy having a new bar and chain on my saw.
That's pretty much my situation too. I thought I was going to have a buddy this year, but he's working full time, plus he started a custom rifle building business that's taken right off. He didn't burn much last year, so he isn't planning on cutting this year. I drag my teenage son out with me from time to time, but for the most part, I'm on my own.
I'd imagine I'll slow down a bit without mine. He's 17 and I'm loosing him, slowly. He thinks we have plenty of wood and don't need anymore.
I had a buddy, a brother and dad in the woods back in the 70's to help out and we did make a lot of good burning wood. Dad passed June 2004, Buddy passed away 2005, brother doesn't burn wood and lives 3 hours away from me now. In the late 1980's and a tiny bit in 1990's my step daughter was always in the woods with me or some other place doing work for me. She left for college in 1993 and never returned to live near by. Today I go to the woods with the tractor trailer and saws. If I don't return for supper and evening chores the wife knows where to search for the remains. I do have a group of friends who I hunt coyotes, whistle pigs and such with. We meet every other Sunday for brunch, B/S and drawing a partner to coyote hunt with for thr next two weeks. I also go and help my friend John cut fire wood for his sugar shack, also help him boil sap in the spring. Last year while I was laid up after knee surgery they all came to the house and wanted to split wood for ther wife. Was already done though and it was starting to warm so we didn't need a fire but for a few more weeks. Al
To answer the question simply: no I do not. Katie is afraid we would get divorced if we cut wood together because I am always stammering and raving when things do not go right, and they never do, and while I never mean anything by it, she grew up isolated from that sort of thing. Sadly since retiring, I do not really get out much to talk to ANYONE. If I do get chatting, then its a lot because I just don't have that opportunity. Most of that is about other stuff though and not about wood. All my life, from age 15 to now at 43, I have always cut wood alone. A Great-Uncle worked for Scott Paper Company for years and learned that cutting wood with a buddy meant he had to share 1/2 the money, but did not double production. There are ways to cut wood that are productive by yourself and I have adapted them from him. He also once said that if you work alone all the time, you talk to yourself, and I really do that. I carry on full conversations, lips just a jabbering, questions made, answers given...oh yeah it is bad.
