Hand split your wood and get more testosterone

i will take a pill for the testosterone and split with my timberwolf

 

I will live forever then.

 

Backwoods, you stud muffin!

 

Well, for a woman the normal range for total testosterone is 25 to 95 ng/dL and for a man the range for total testosterone is 225 to 900 ng/dL. My last blood test back in 2010 showed mine to be an 8 yep, eight! On the flipside, estrogen production for a female is 40 to 400 pg/mL and for a man the range is less than 40 pg/mL. Mine was a 33.

I also have not seen a quack since 2010. I finally got fed up with their poking and prodding, sticking me with needles to draw more and more blood (they were trying to find out what makes me tick I guess) Plus with the two back surgeries, first a single, and the next one was a double along with surgery on my left hand I had had enough. I'm still fairly healthy, pretty much retired but honestly, sometimes I think I work harder now than I did when I was actively working and getting paid for it.

With the firewood, I cut, split and stack as much as I can in a day. If I'm not done, there is always tomorrow. The last wood I split was elm, cherry residential ash, and pine. The elm and ash were bears and took me a few weeks to finish off about 3 cord. The pine, it took a little less than a week to do 4 cord.

 

I split all of my own wood by hand, just a maul and occasionally the sledge hammer and wedges. Never really thought about testosterone - I just enjoy the work. Real reason though is I'm incredibly cheap and could not bear to spend hundreds on a splitter when the maul is $20.

 

The last time my wife went with me when I maul split two loads of wood, I got lucky that night. The last time she helped me use the splitter, she made fun of me.

Seriously, I'm glad I bought a splitter as one day, I'll use it a lot. But, I still maul split 90% of it. It is just so much quicker. And I enjoy it. I get bored and start pondering on what I could be dong instead of waiting on the splitter, when I use it. There is nothing wrong with a 6 pound maul. It makes you feel good too.

God Bless

 

My wife like the benefit of the woodstove, otherwise I would have the house at 62 F. She doesn't like me splitting wood though - because if I am out splitting wood I can not make dinner or help with the kids' homework. It is a trade off, warm house or more help. She does go out with me to get fuel from the forest. She normally loads the bucked logs and stacks the truck.

 

My wife used to say the same thing when we were dating. Now that we're married she say's processing wood takes up too much of my time and that we have a furnace that works fine. Go figure.

 

I love to take a few whiper-snapers with me when Im splitting. Its fun to watch them try to bust across knots and stuff. Ive been splitting since I was 12 so I kind of got the hang of it at 60. After they get worn down I start giving them a few pointers, but I don't give out any secrets until I see a good pile stacked.

 

I split it all by hand; about 4 cords a year. Love it.

 

i use a splitter, i have never split by hand. i guess i am that guy.

 

I was a gandy dancer (driving spikes with a maul) on the rail road in my younger years. It was fun to get 2, 3 or even 4 guys timing their swings driving the same spike. I still enjoy swinging a maul for splitting every once in a while but I use a splitter for 99% of my wood now.

 

With the exception of when I owned a Speeco 20 ton horizontal-vertical hydro splitter from Apr 1996 to Dec 2005,I've hand split virtually all of my wood (and a fair amount given to a couple family members) since I was 17.

The usual gnarly crotches,extra knotty or crooked pieces,stump cuts etc. regardless of size will get the saw treatment however.

I like to keep in shape but wont keep battering at something if it don't bust apart after 5-6 swings of the maul.