Ready and Waiting!

[Ralphie Boy]

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!

 

[NH_Wood]

Good luck getting some wood and hope you see no damage! Cheers!

 

[RORY12553]

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!!

 

[red oak]

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.

 

[Ralphie Boy]

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.

Nice and warm and NO HEAT BILL! Wood is King!

 

[Ralphie Boy]

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!!

I sure hope you didn't suffer much more that the loss of a few trees in that monster of a storm.

 

[RORY12553]

I sure hope you didn't suffer much more that the loss of a few trees in that monster of a storm.

I didny but others did in the area

 

[osagebow]

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.

 

[Ashful]

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!!

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.

 

[Paulywalnut]

Watch those hanging branches Ralphie.

 

[bsruther]

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.

 

[smoke eater]

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.

+1

 

[osagebow]

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.

That's what I assumed. Leaves on the red oak blowdowns/hangers were amazingly persistent - some still have leaves on them here.

 

[BIGDADDY]

I'm sitting inside like a sane maniac looking out the window. You guys have fun playing in the snow.

 

[RORY12553]

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.

It was from Hurricane Sandy last October.

 

[red oak]

It was from Hurricane Sandy last October.

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.

 

[Ashful]

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!