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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject: It's started! |
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I started cutting firewood yesterday. Was going to cut some more today but it is getting ready to start raining and is supposed to last all weekend. I had someone ask me why I heated with wood, and I told him because it heats you 3 times. Once when you cut it. Once when you split it and once when you burn it. I don't cut green wood. I only cut dead wood or wood that has been damaged by winds or storms.
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You know another year is beginning to draw to a close when Capt starts cutting firewood  Are you going to cut the same amount as last year?
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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Probably. You never know how much you will need. I would rather have some left over than not have enough!
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That's the way to do it - I remember when we used to heat with wood how such a seemingly huge stack in the fall could turn into almost nothing before the weather was warming up again - go for it!
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I am hanging my head in shame. We BUY our firewood. That's just awful, especially after the thousands of cords I have cut, split and stacked over the years. But I think all those years have taken a bit of a toll, so now a nice young man arrives with a trailer full of a face cord of wood (only tried once to tell this old grey haired broad it was a full cord) and stacks it just outside the back door.
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I don't miss cutting firewood! I miss the family time but not the hard work! My little sister and I would go wood cutting with my Dad. Mom packed a big lunch and sent us on our way  We cut the dead tree in the woods, loaded it in the pickup. Unloaded it at the woodshed then helped stack and carry. That was before woodsplitters! Talk about hard work for 2 girls, and you know what? It didn't hurt us a bit!
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Capt Kirk
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I have a hydraulic wood splitter and it sure makes it a lot easier. The wood is free so all it costs me is gas and oil for the tractor, chain saw and splitter. Probably about $50 a heating season! The guy that bought the home place right behind me, came in with a caterpiller and cleaned out all of the fence rows and drainiage ares and stacked all of the trees up in a big pile. He told me to help myself to the firewood. I have been cutting from it for about 10 years and haven't made a dent in it. What a nice neighbor I have! One year he took his big tractor and drug 4 or 5 big trees right up to the back of my wood shed!
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Yuck! That is one of my pet hates, can't stand it 
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Crummy electric heat dries the air the same as gas and just as expensive.
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We heat with wood, but we cut enough last year to last us two years. It was all from the slash pile out past the dump. We haven't been out that road all summer so I don't know how much is there. They couldn't burn this summer so I would imagine it's quite big now. We do maybe have to split some or cut some of our four foot sections down smaller. Dooley
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I have some excellent Oak in the yard that I have tried to give away and can get no takers. The tree is down dried and ready I don't understand it. I am not trying to sell it. Too bad you are in Ohio Capt. Kirk.
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We are not that far, Richard.
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John and our boys cut and split firewood to sell too. Luckily John also has a hydralic wood splitter!! We have the crummy gas heating also. I watch John and the boys cut the wood and wish we had a fireplace to burn some of it in!! Oh well maybe one day!! We lost so many oak trees this year due to the drought, so they really have their work cut out for them this firewood season!!
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