Ready and Waiting!

  • Active since 1995, Hearth.com is THE place on the internet for free information and advice about wood stoves, pellet stoves and other energy saving equipment.

    We strive to provide opinions, articles, discussions and history related to Hearth Products and in a more general sense, energy issues.

    We promote the EFFICIENT, RESPONSIBLE, CLEAN and SAFE use of all fuels, whether renewable or fossil.
Status
Not open for further replies.
Ralphie Boy

Ralphie Boy

Minister of Fire
Feb 12, 2012
1,165
Rabbit Hash, Kentucky
The saws are gassed, bar oil tanks filled, chains sharpened and all equipment is at the ready. 3-5 inches of snow to come today and 1/2 to 3/4 inches of ice on Sunday. I know that's not must for many of you but around here is smacks of near disaster. Limbs will snap and trees will fall and I'm ready. Hoping none fall on homes or people, just in the woods close to me!;)
 
  • Like
Reactions: Paulywalnut, Ashful and Backwoods Savage
Good luck getting some wood and hope you see no damage! Cheers!
 
I'm still helping someone clean up from a storm in October of 2012. Have taken 4 cords of wood out of there and still a lot left!!
 
  • Like
Reactions: osagebow
Hey Ralphie, we're supposed to get that stuff on Sunday - people are acting like it's the end of the world around here! I've got the saw ready and I'm going to try to cut a few loads tomorrow when the weather's supposed to be nice. Then when it's snowy and icy on Sunday I'm going to be nice and warm watching football by the fire.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ram 1500 with an axe..., smoke eater, osagebow and 1 other person
red oak said:
Hey Ralphie, we're supposed to get that stuff on Sunday - people are acting like it's the end of the world around here! I've got the saw ready and I'm going to try to cut a few loads tomorrow when the weather's supposed to be nice. Then when it's snowy and icy on Sunday I'm going to be nice and warm watching football by the fire.
Click to expand...

Nice and warm and NO HEAT BILL!;lol Wood is King!
 
RORY12553 said:
I'm still helping someone clean up from a storm in October of 2012. Have taken 4 cords of wood out of there and still a lot left!!
Click to expand...

I sure hope you didn't suffer much more that the loss of a few trees in that monster of a storm.
 
Good luck Ralphie- We have a bunch of small beat up stuff around, including hangers from that October mess. I expect some limbs and small leaners to fall, ready to roll.
 
RORY12553 said:
I'm still helping someone clean up from a storm in October of 2012. Have taken 4 cords of wood out of there and still a lot left!!
Click to expand...
You sure you don't mean Oct. 2011? We got hit with a freak snow storm that year, somewhere around Oct.29, 2011. Brought down tons of stuff here, as many of the trees still had a good amount of the leaves.
 
  • Like
Reactions: osagebow
Watch those hanging branches Ralphie.
 
NWS is now saying "Little or no ice accumulation expected" and that's fine by me since we are sans stove at the moment. If it does get bad, I have 4 tanks of propane and the generator is ready to go.
Got up this morning and the snow blower wouldn't work, so this might be the winter where everything goes wrong.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ashful
red oak said:
Hey Ralphie, we're supposed to get that stuff on Sunday - people are acting like it's the end of the world around here! I've got the saw ready and I'm going to try to cut a few loads tomorrow when the weather's supposed to be nice. Then when it's snowy and icy on Sunday I'm going to be nice and warm watching football by the fire.
Click to expand...

+1
 
Joful said:
You sure you don't mean Oct. 2011? We got hit with a freak snow storm that year, somewhere around Oct.29, 2011. Brought down tons of stuff here, as many of the trees still had a good amount of the leaves.
Click to expand...

That's what I assumed. Leaves on the red oak blowdowns/hangers were amazingly persistent - some still have leaves on them here.
 
I'm sitting inside like a sane maniac looking out the window. You guys have fun playing in the snow.
 
Joful said:
You sure you don't mean Oct. 2011? We got hit with a freak snow storm that year, somewhere around Oct.29, 2011. Brought down tons of stuff here, as many of the trees still had a good amount of the leaves.
Click to expand...

It was from Hurricane Sandy last October.
 
RORY12553 said:
It was from Hurricane Sandy last October.
Click to expand...

Hurricane Sandy did a fair amount of damage here, although nothing like the NY/NJ areas. Luckily most of the damage in my area was just to trees, as I cut 2 years worth of wood just from what Sandy dropped around here.
 
I lost four trees in Sandy, all Walnut, three of them very large for Walnut trees. They're scattered between this year's and next year's stacks.

Others around us fared much worse than I. We had our power back on in 24 hours, but most around me were without power 6 - 7 days. I still remember the week of generators running on all the properties that back up to my own!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

Z
sthil Issues
Replies
14
Views
2K
The Gear
zrock
Z
B
Small Red Oak Score
Replies
2
Views
611
The Wood Shed
Woody Stover
Woody Stover
xman23
Stihl MS 170 Review
Replies
8
Views
6K
The Gear
xman23
xman23
R
Need advice - medium to small trees blocking new property entrance
Replies
30
Views
2K
The Wood Shed
RodM
R
Nick Mystic
Dodged a bullet logging last week
Replies
38
Views
5K
The Wood Shed
Nealm66
Nealm66
Top Bottom
Back