What has happened to me....

[Jfk4th]

Now I have been a nature lover, sportsman, and now a Police Officer with Rangers but every time I take a walk in or near the woods you know what I think of now when I see trees? You might have guessed it....Wonderful, splits of firewood stacked nicely in my backyard. I really don't know why this is always in mind but I simply cannot stop thinking about this stuff.

As a youth I was "obsessed" with video games, then sports, then of course "chicks" . Now that I am married, have a good job, and a wonderful son I guess my life has changed to this, wood stoves and nicely spit wood in my backyard. If one of my friends happens to mention wood stoves or firewood, I simply dominate the conversation, unloading tons and tons of info about the subject...Ahhhhhhh

I have a nice cabin with 15 acres and I am just thinking about the selected trees that I will fell soon and make, nicely split wood for my backyard. Damn, look what you guys on this website have done to me.... :cheese:

I am currently on vaca at Kueka Lake State Park and looking into the woods I see, once again, nicely stacked wood for my backyard.....

Anybody else have this obsession? I bet more than a couple :cheese:

 

[RedRanger]

Aren`t annual psykicks checks mandatory for "public defenders"?? Not to worry J, we are all sick, else we wouldn`t be hanging out on this forum. Only person I know these days that is on the mend is brother bart ;-)

 

[Jfk4th]

Aren`t annual psykicks checks mandatory for "public defenders"?? Not to worry J, we are all sick, else we wouldn`t be hanging out on this forum. Only person I know these days that is on the mend is brother bart ;-)

You are probably right, my wife says all the time I need to get my head examined :lol:

 

[Rockey]

I didn't consider professional help until I found myself in church one day.....knocking on the pews and sticking my moisture meter needles in them.

 

[sinnian]

:-/ At least you have an outlet for this! I am a damn pellet burner, and I do the same thing

 

[RedRanger]

I didn't consider professional help until I found myself in church one day.....knocking on the pews and sticking my moisture meter needles in them.

Priceless, Rockey, priceless. I am still belly laughing as I`m typing this. :lol:

 

[brooktrout]

:-/ At least you have an outlet for this! I am a damn pellet burner, and I do the same thing

Yes! I know what you mean! I was walking through the woods the other day and thought, man, I would LOVE to have all of these bags of pellets growing on these pellet bushes stacked in my basement! :lol:

 

[sinnian]

:-/ At least you have an outlet for this! I am a damn pellet burner, and I do the same thing

Yes! I know what you mean! I was walking through the woods the other day and thought, man, I would LOVE to have all of these bags of pellets growing on these pellet bushes stacked in my basement! :lol:

:lol: at my expense!

I would love to burn "wood", real "wood", not pressurized wood. However, it just wasn't in the cards. My friends think I am nut (but grateful) when I help them, cut, split and stack. Wish I could do it for myself.

 

[FatttFire]

I drive down the road and rubber neck ta standing dead all the time!

 

[struggle]

Just hearing a chain saw running in my town makes me go crazy like a dog howling at the full moon.

It only gets worse from here.

A friend asked me to help him cut some branches up on a lawn account he has and I made him carry one larger ash branch to my house via his pick-up as I would not let him take it to the dump. It was just to nice of a piece to throw away. Stories like this could just go on and on.

 

[Opportunist]

While watching Rambo, I found myself staring at the trees in the movie. I would cut that one. Oooh there's some good burning wood.

 

[savageactor7]

"What has happened to me…."

...I hear ya brother, just last week I put solar lights on my woodpiles.

 

[johnnywarm]

I'm starting to follow tree cutting trucks

 

[Tfin]

I didn't consider professional help until I found myself in church one day.....knocking on the pews and sticking my moisture meter needles in them.

That's awesome! :lol:

I'm in the same boat myself. When I see large trees, all I can think about is how many splits it would produce.

 

[Valhalla]

We have that basic human need, that is to keep warm. The love of fire helps too!

Oh yes, having gasoline/diesel for blood helps.

 

[LONDONDERRY]

Now I have been a nature lover, sportsman, and now a Police Officer with Rangers but every time I take a walk in or near the woods you know what I think of now when I see trees? You might have guessed it....Wonderful, splits of firewood stacked nicely in my backyard. I really don't know why this is always in mind but I simply cannot stop thinking about this stuff.

As a youth I was "obsessed" with video games, then sports, then of course "chicks" . Now that I am married, have a good job, and a wonderful son I guess my life has changed to this, wood stoves and nicely spit wood in my backyard. If one of my friends happens to mention wood stoves or firewood, I simply dominate the conversation, unloading tons and tons of info about the subject...Ahhhhhhh

I have a nice cabin with 15 acres and I am just thinking about the selected trees that I will fell soon and make, nicely split wood for my backyard. Damn, look what you guys on this website have done to me.... :cheese:

I am currently on vaca at Kueka Lake State Park and looking into the woods I see, once again, nicely stacked wood for my backyard.....

Anybody else have this obsession? I bet more than a couple :cheese:

Okay sounds a bit weird. You know who else lived in a cabin, alone , obsession thinking? I heard he's living in ADX Florence

 

[gerry100]

Must be some kind of natural,primal connection there.

The caveman who was diligent about his burning wood probably lived thru a few more winters and therefore had more romance in front of the fire, many millenia later his descendants populate this forum.

When I was building my dry stacked retaining wall, I was obsessed with rocks but chalked that up to being of Italian descent and over fifty.

Now I'm back to wood.

 

[Chettt]

"moisture meter on a pew" - bout spit my coffee on the keyboard.

Chettt.

 

[Todd]

I can't hardly walk through the woods anymore, because I'm constantly looking up at the leaves to identify the species and determine the BTU's. I look like I had a few too many or falling down drunk. %-P

 

[Poult]

Yep, OK, I'll admit it: I covet my neighbors' dead trees. I drive by and rubberneck other people's hedgerows, checking them out. I'm afraid it's only going to get worse, too. :gulp:

 

[Tfin]

I actually hollered out the window of my car "GET THAT WOOD STACKED" as I drove by this house the other day. The guy had around 4 cord of c/s/d about a month and a half ago. The stuff is STILL sitting in a pile on his lawn for crying out loud!

I don't even know the guy. :gulp:

 

[caber]

More wood and another chainsaw - that's all I've been thinking about for weeks. I keep telling my wife I've found yet another location that has down trees I could go cut and haul out. She keeps pointing out we have our own woodlot and I'm already cutting in 2 other locations as well and I have zero time to add a third. She just doesn't understand. If I see a downed tree, I've gotta go poke it with a knife and evaluate its quality and wonder if I can get it to the truck.

Free wood = free heat and profit from firewood sales.

 

[LONDONDERRY]

Okay I think you guys need to calm down a bit.

 

[Jags]

Okay I think you guys need to calm down a bit.

Me thinks this is calm for this group of woodchucks.

Oh, and to anybody that thinks "this may get worse"..........it does.

Jags - who must drive past the wood pile in the back 40, every work day, before he can happily head off to work.

 

[Jfk4th]

Boy you guys are making me feel better now, thought I was the only one :lol:

Of course, here I sit by my laptop looking at some huge Maple trees!



I wonder if I can cut it down and shove it in my camper..... ;-P