I think that it is time that I admit that I have a problem....

[Woody Stover]

I had to have more, always more. And increasingly harder woods.

I'm working on a couple of Black Locust scores, but I'm almost hoping they fall through. I'm worried that if I try it I'll never be able to get off the stuff.
Great post, funny stuff! :lol:

One afternoon I heard the door slam and a car drive off. On the table in the hall was a note from a lawyer telling me my wife had filed for divorce and was taking the kids with her. I cried for about ten minutes and then went to see if anybody had scored any more free wood off of craigslist.

:lol:

 

[fishingpol]

Yeah, the family and neighbors think I am obssessed to some degree like the rest of us here, until they quietly melt into the couch on a cold winter day and don't want to leave. Then, all is forgotten.

The stove gives me all the love and warmth that I used to get from everybody. It is a lonely world here. :smirk:

 

[Wade A.]

More bad news....I had a secret stash of some of the sweetest tinder you'd ever seen. Primo stuff, like you really can't find anymore..it will light if you rub it too hard, a combination of milkweed down, inner birch bark and just a pinch of the small hemlock twigs you find down on the trunk, the ones that usually are still dry after even the heaviest rainstorm.....aaaaaahhh. Well, I was saving it for next Winter and a special occasion. My wife was down in my shop looking for something and found it. When she confronted me with it I really didn't know what to say and I panicked. I said it belonged to one of my best friends, and she knows that he burns too, so maybe she bought it. I'm so ashamed.

 

[roxys dad]

OK it's bad,
Went on scrounging overtime since the snow melted and seem to be finding it all over, filled all the pallets I used over this winter added a few more and starting splitting and stacking on them. See a CL add for free wood about 8 miles away figure I could use a little more to round off the piles, pull 4 trailer loads home and pile them up by the splitter finaly get around to start splitting instead of collecting more, about an hour into it I realize I've got alot more wood then I think, really should stop. A half hour later my hero neighbor ( he's my hero because he is 80 heats almost entirely with scrounge wood he cuts and splits swings a mean maul ) comes over and says " they starting cutting an ash 2 blocks away if I want any" most of the stuffs to big for him to handle by himself so its kind of asking for help. In my hjaste to get there I spill bar oil all over my saw, leave splits were they fell, practically leave the splitter running.

my half
rounding out stacks

 

[snowleopard]

Hi. My name is snowleopard, and I am a woodstalker.

I saw a couple of wood trucks hauling on the road the other day. Everyone else was trying to get around them. I followed them, estimating length and cordage as I drove. When they turned off to a mill, I followed them, and got the name and number of the dealer who was driving one of the trucks.

My babies need shoes, and I bought a chainsaw. And an F-250 flatbed.

Thanks for listening.