The sled is in the woods!

[quads]

Yes, it's that time when the trailer starts to get hard for my bald-tire little ATV to pull. Pulled the sled today for the first time this season. After the impending winter storm tomorrow...could be awhile before I can get out in the woods again, maybe months!

And here is just a miscellaneous pic. This pic is of one of those pieces of wood I get once in awhile that makes me swing more than once at it. Then I take it's pic so I can continue to curse it for a long, long time; every time I see it in my picture album! It's funny how sometimes, years later, when I'm putting one of those pieces in the stove, I remember it.

 

[billb3]

you haven't beat the crap out of it until the end is peened / mushroomed over like a piece of steel.

you know you're cursing pretty bad when the dog runs home and hides .

 

[basswidow]

Oh yeah, that looks ugly at the bottom. A few swings for sure.

When I split, I like the round to be on something hard. With that snow and base of leafs and then the ground - I guess it's not an issue to worry with.

Love the sled. You should paint it red for this time of year.

 

[Jamess67]

The cow crows at noon. OOPS thought you were talking in code.

 

[thewoodlands]

Quads, you better get the fiskars on the new handle or the hearth.com police will fine you.


zap

 

[CALJREICH]

You are an animal.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Quads, either new tires or chains for that atv and you might be able still to get out and cut. Or you might try what we do; just snow plow your way in.

Hope you don't get buried with too much snow. Hey, we got a little bit overnight again but it is basically all gone now as we got above freezing today. Supposed to again tomorrow before the storm moves in. Looks like 5-9" for us is predicted.

 

[Gary_602z]

Quads, either new tires or chains for that atv and you might be able still to get out and cut. Or you might try what we do; just snow plow your way in.

Hope you don't get buried with too much snow. Hey, we got a little bit overnight again but it is basically all gone now as we got above freezing today. Supposed to again tomorrow before the storm moves in. Looks like 5-9" for us is predicted.

Dennis,
If we chip in and get you a bar stool then you can split horizontal and not be sitting in the snow! :lol:

Gary

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Gary, bar stools are made for better things.

 

[sublime68charger]

chains would due wonder's for the ATV and Snow traction.

you'll go farther with chains on the old tires vs brand new tire's

just my thoughts on this.

but if your a farmer in WI you already know this I'm sure.

 

[golfandwoodnut]

It is funny sometimes when I am splitting a round that looks normal and when it is difficult to split, I just know there is going to be some wierd grain pattern causing it. Usually from some old branch that must have come out the trunk at some point.

 

[Wood Duck]

I don't see any marks from the maul on the end of that round - it looks like you landed every swing in exactly the same spot. Nice swinging.

 

[Wood Duck]

I don't see any marks from the maul on the end of that round - it looks like you landed every swing in exactly the same spot. Nice swinging.

 

[quads]

I don't see any marks from the maul on the end of that round - it looks like you landed every swing in exactly the same spot. Nice swinging.

But of course! Thanks!

 

[quads]

I've got tire chains for my 2wd ATV that I use on the farm, but not for this one that I use in the woods. And I'm too cheap to buy them for this one and I can't quite see the air in the tires yet, so no new tires! If the snow is too deep to get around in the woods with it the way it is, then it's too deep for me to be making firewood anyway.

Sounds like yesterday might have been the last time I get out there this winter. I've got a little bit of firewood in the yard yet that I am willing to sell, the rest of it is stacked in the woods. When the yard wood is gone then the customers will have to buy it somewhere else. The snow is coming down in 'buckets' right now. The official forecast is for 10-14 inches, but one weatherman last night said we could be measuring it in feet by Sunday morning. Haha! I love dramatic weathermen. If we get 10" I can still get out there and cut some wood/haul some of my for sale wood up as needed. Any more than that and it's all over. Then I will have plenty of time to go tobogganing! And you can bet I'll have pictures of that.......

 

[ecocavalier02]

Yes, it's that time when the trailer starts to get hard for my bald-tire little ATV to pull. Pulled the sled today for the first time this season. After the impending winter storm tomorrow...could be awhile before I can get out in the woods again, maybe months!

It's funny how sometimes, years later, when I'm putting one of those pieces in the stove, I remember it.

thats funny this happens to me all the time. either when im puttin it in the stove or when im stacking. and i was just thinking to myself the other day i must be nuts for remember things like this

 

[quads]

thats funny this happens to me all the time. either when im puttin it in the stove or when im stacking. and i was just thinking to myself the other day i must be nuts for remember things like this

It's a curse. I remember all kinds of useless information FOREVER, yet, I can barely remember any important stuff.......like Mrs. Quads' birthday.

 

[smokinj]

You running chains I cant really tell?

 

[Gary_602z]

thats funny this happens to me all the time. either when im puttin it in the stove or when im stacking. and i was just thinking to myself the other day i must be nuts for remember things like this

It's a curse. I remember all kinds of useless information FOREVER, yet, I can barely remember any important stuff.......like Mrs. Quads' birthday.

No problem, she will remind you! A stern look will do more damage then a splitting maul!

Gary

 

[Backwoods Savage]

thats funny this happens to me all the time. either when im puttin it in the stove or when im stacking. and i was just thinking to myself the other day i must be nuts for remember things like this

It's a curse. I remember all kinds of useless information FOREVER, yet, I can barely remember any important stuff.......like Mrs. Quads' birthday.

Quads, that is why I married a redhead that has a birthday on the same day as my own. That way I never forget.

 

[tfdchief]

[/quote]Quads, I have told you how lucky you are to have the timber you have, get to go to the woods with your ATV and sled and I am sure most of what you split is typical woodland trees....straight and tall. I have cut for over 30 years wherever I can and more often than not, everything I split is like your tough ones cause I seldom get to cut in a woodlot or timber. God is just reminding you how lucky you are with an occasional ugly split :smirk: Enjoy!

 

[quads]

You running chains I cant really tell?

No chains on that one.

Looks like my firewood making is done for this winter. We are under a Blizzard Warning right now. Snowing and blowing so hard I can't see the trees in the front yard. I think we got about 1 foot of fresh snow so far, but it's hard to tell. Forecast says maybe over 2 feet by morning and 50mph wind.

 

[quads]

thats funny this happens to me all the time. either when im puttin it in the stove or when im stacking. and i was just thinking to myself the other day i must be nuts for remember things like this

It's a curse. I remember all kinds of useless information FOREVER, yet, I can barely remember any important stuff.......like Mrs. Quads' birthday.

Quads, that is why I married a redhead that has a birthday on the same day as my own. That way I never forget.

HA! Her birthday is only 4 days from mine, that's how bad I am.....

Both my wife's family and mine are all redheads, except us! We are the only ones in our families that aren't. (even our daughter is a redhead)

 

[Backwoods Savage]

quads. there is usually a black sheep in every family. :lol:

 

[Cowboy Billy]

Sweet sled Quads

When you start looking at tires check out the ATI mud lites they have a tractor like tread and really hook up. I have swamp witches on mine and it goes through mud in 2wd almost as good as it did in 4wd with the stock knobbies on it but it has a hared wide rib on it and tends to spin more on the hard pack. The ATI's have a softer narrower rib with the same tread pattern and will be the next tires I buy. If I had some way to get them to you and they were the right size I'd make you deal on my old ones. I only had a couple hunderd miles on them when a got a great deal on the used swamp witches.

Billy