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What your plans for today?

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  1. Ohio dave

    Ohio dave

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    I work 22 12 hour days in a row then get 20 days off. So every morning when the wife is getting ready for work when I home she asks what are your plans today... today she asked while looking at a 2 cord pile of maple and about a 1/2 cord of ash that needs css.
    Yesh thats my plan for today. Most of the time I just say firewood
     
  2. TMACK

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    Had a oak tree trimmed up yesterday, got the brush taken care of already, so today's plan is to clean up the limbs and get them on the pile. So like you my plans are firewood as always. 20201208_100140.jpg
     
  3. yooperdave

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    Mailing out some Christmas packages and picking up a card to be sent.

    People stopping by for awhile, 99 baked a cake.

    Hopefully, take another walk and feed the neighbor dogs some treats.

    As you can see, no plans for work today!

    Thank you retirement! (Did I mention yet today that I'm retired now? :rofl: :lol: )
     
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  4. Juniper Hill

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    22 12 hr days is rough. I have a hard time pulling my two. I work two overnight 12's then get 4-5 days off. I'm a nurse what the heck do you do? Yes, "firewood today", I love being able to say that.
     
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  5. sirbuildalot

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    Your Oak tree looks an awful lot like Black Locust
     
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  6. buZZsaw BRAD

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    If i had worked that many 12 hour days in a row and it was my first day off id still be :sleeping:
    Making firewood sounds like fun though...its your other "job".
    We want pics Dave!
    Plans: two wood deliveries and look at a job. Pick up rest of silver maple from prior score and process some.
     
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  8. sirbuildalot

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    For sure. I'd be pulling a Rip Van Winkle kinda nap if I worked that many hours on consecutive days.
     
  9. Chazsbetterhalf

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    I think by the end of 20 you would be so exhausted that it would be dangerous. Be careful on the job.
     
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    Believe me,oak tree with lots of acorns.
     
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  11. Woodwhore

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    Go to work! Come home! Deliver split wood or cut trees! Watch movie on couch with wife and kids! Get kicked out of the movie for snoring! Get up and repeat! Shoot deer somewhere in between
     
  12. Ohio dave

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  13. LordOfTheFlies

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    Funny wife! I'm picking bucking up the rest of this here norway maple.....

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    Your schedule sounds horrible and amazing at the same time btw.......
     
  15. Ohio dave

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    Sounds like my life but the kids are all moved out
     
  16. Chud

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    That’s typically my answer. There is always logs to cut, rounds to split, or splits to stack. At this time of year there is also wood to move into the house. There’s still leaves to blow, but that takes a backseat to wood activities.
     
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    Clean up the fish cooker and table on the patio downstairs from a Lingcod and Shrimp feed last night. Me, Wif, Sister and Niece. My Word those Gals can eat! And all three of them skinny! No firewood for a while, hurt my back.
     
  18. billb3

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    I'm retired/
    I don't make plans.
    I generally put out metaphorical fires all day.
    Today is addressing a leaking home heating oil tank.
    Leak is 8 drops per minute, I'm documenting hoping for no change of leak rate as will be a bit of a project.
     
  19. theburtman

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    This situation is going to get worse and from what I understand it can happen quickly.
     
  20. sirbuildalot

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    I'd get it replaced asap. Usually one pinhole leak means many more right behind it. Don't want the new oil company driver turning on the high speed pump that dumps 80+ GPM into your old tank, which then ends up on your basement floor.
     
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