So, it's come to this has it?

[Butcher]

Since I'm in the same boat as some of you in that I'm digging into wood I was hoping to let season for 1 more year I got to thinking. I have all these 8x8 barn beam pieces cut that I normally use for kindling.

Since its 100 year old + cedar I'm fairly confident its dry. Drug in some yesterday quartered some with a wedge and 3 pounder and mixed some in with my loads.

My wife is keeping a close eye on the kitchen table if this weather don't change soon.

 

[Sinngetreu]

My wife is keeping a close eye on the kitchen table if this weather don't change soon.

If the weather stays this cold, you could have her go get the wood and she would probably offer the kitchen table!

 

[Dix]

If the weather stays this cold, you could have her go get the wood and she would probably offer the kitchen table!

Women don't lug firewood .... isn't that the reality of it???

I'd never sacrifice the kitchen table.

 

[Sinngetreu]

Women don't lug firewood .... isn't that the reality of it???

I'd never sacrifice the kitchen table.

My wife lugged firewood once, but I was too busy vomiting every two hours when that happened.
I guess it all depends on how nice the kitchen table is. Ours could potentially be up for grabs if we were desperate enough. Our dining room table is a whole nuther thing.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Women don't lug firewood .... isn't that the reality of it???

I'd never sacrifice the kitchen table.

How about just the legs then?

 

[Butcher]

How about just the legs then?

Table legs? or the wife's???

 

[Backwoods Savage]

When you are cold, either will do nicely.

 

[Beer Belly]

my brother once chopped up and burned an ol' wooden boat that was on his property.....this going back about 40 years.

 

[jillybeansisme]

I'm in deep doo doo if women don't lug firewood. Once I get that house built, which one of you guys is offering to lug it for me?

 

[wahoowad]

My wife lugged firewood ONCE. She brought the wettest, rottenest, worthless splits back. You know, the splits you toss aside. I had to haul it back to dry another year. I guess she taught me.

 

[bmblank]

My wife lugged firewood ONCE. She brought the wettest, rottenest, worthless splits back. You know, the splits you toss aside. I had to haul it back to dry another year. I guess she taught me.

That's probably like the time you offered to go shopping and did it totally wrong just so she wouldn't ask you to do it again.
Payback is a b...

 

[Bobbin]

Our primary living quarters on the second floor, so is my shop. I use the "waitress method" for moving firewood... anytime I head down the stairs I take the carrier with me... make every trip count! The wood box stays full, I get some "cardio" and weight bearing exercise and the table remains safe. (I also lobby for a nice selection of smaller splits when we're processing firewood).

 

[jillybeansisme]

I plan to keep some on the back patio and use the idea of the wheeled covered garbage can and then I plan to keep some more in the garage and use the electric dumbwaiter to haul it upstairs. I expect to store some by the stove, perhaps in my daughter's little red wagon -- I'll see on that one cuzz' she might want to ride down the hill in it.

 

[KindredSpiritzz]

My woman stacked fire wood once, was not a pretty sight. After a month of leaning it finally fell over and almost killed me reaching for a piece, which i think was her plan all along.

 

[Ashful]

My wife helped with the splitting and stacking once or twice, and really enjoyed it. She was pretty good at stacking, even crossed ends. Unfortunately, with two little kids in the house now, I don't see her helping again anytime real soon.

To the OP, I heard we'll have a nice break in the weather this weekend?

 

[Butcher]

To the OP, I heard we'll have a nice break in the weather this weekend?

We might actually get above freezing here. Bout time.
If my wife isn't busy she likes helping me split wood. I throw the rounds on the splitter she splits and throws into a wheel barrow while I'm stacking out of another WB. Makes quick work of it but about wears me out.

 

[jillybeansisme]

Just remember, all you Guys, when Mama's happy . . .

 

[Bobbin]

A lot of my friends think I'm nuts, but I really do like splitting and stacking firewood. It's really quality time for the good man and me. We wear hearing protection when we use the splitter and we have the best conversations while we're stacking; we talk about plans for the future, or some of the tougher things we've been through together over the years, or current events. We joke with each other. We take breaks to play with the fool dog and commune with the Pride. And generally enjoy being outdoors. We usually call it quits after 5 hrs., so it never really feels like "work". And when we're done for the day we've cleaned up an area and have something to show for it. Anyway, I just really dig that kind of "work". I find it relaxing and quite fulfilling (kind of like freshly folded laundry, freshly mown lawn, and a clean kitchen after making "dessert" for the coming week). Felt the same way about a clean barn when I had horses.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I'm in deep doo doo if women don't lug firewood. Once I get that house built, which one of you guys is offering to lug it for me?

Jilly, I usually do not let my wife stack wood because she is terrible at the job. Also in winter, we keep enough wood in the barn for the winter's needs and move from barn to porch as needed. This winter because of some physical problems, my wife has done an excellent job of keeping the wood rack on the porch filled. In fact, one time I felt good and started to fill it and she really wanted me to stop. She thought it was her job now! lol Well, who am I to stop her from doing that?

 

[smokedragon]

Everything in our house is a team effort. The oldest (8) will pick up and stack in the cart as I am splitting, the wife pulls the cart over and stacks from it, and the youngest (2) cheers every time a piece of wood comes apart. On occassion, I will take a break from splitting and my wife will pick up the 8# maul and take some swings (not bad for 5'1" 125lb woman who works in an office 5 days a week). She asks me to leave the easier stuff for her. Who am I to argue, every piece she splits is one I don't have to. When the little one was younger, we would have him in the playpen while working on it.

It is a team effort, and the fruit of that effort is on a cold night when we open the wood stove door and toast marshmallows over the coals before the bedtime reload.

 

[Ashful]

Everything in our house is a team effort.

Yahbut... if I let her help with splitting/stacking wood, then she's going to want me to help with cooking dinner.

 

[smokedragon]

Yahbut... if I let her help with splitting/stacking wood, then she's going to want me to help with cooking dinner.

I do all of the cooking in our house, so what's your point

I guess I better keep it quiet before I get some of you guys in trouble........

She does the vacuuming, clothes, dishes........it is a fair trade in my book, and I love to cook.

Besides, I would rather cook and have help with the wood pile than to be out there by myself while she cooks dinner.

 

[Bobbin]

The good man does all the cooking and marketing, too (I'm the baker and in charge of desserts for the week). He knows how to use the vacuum cleaner. The vegetable garden is his domain. I handle clothing (construction/mending/laundry), kitchen duty, housework, lawn mowing, perennial bed maintenance.

I can cook, but I don't like doing it, he does. Win-win. I have to trot to keep up with him at the grocery store... when I have to do the shopping he leaves me a detailed list... the bright colors and too many choices confuse me...

 

[jillybeansisme]

@Bobbin -- does he have a brother (like him, obviously )

 

[smokedragon]

The good man does all the cooking and marketing, too (I'm the baker and in charge of desserts for the week). He knows how to use the vacuum cleaner. The vegetable garden is his domain. I handle clothing (construction/mending/laundry), kitchen duty, housework, lawn mowing, perennial bed maintenance.

I can cook, but I don't like doing it, he does. Win-win. I have to trot to keep up with him at the grocery store... when I have to do the shopping he leaves me a detailed list... the bright colors and too many choices confuse me...

You and my wife would get along just fine