who else is worn out??

[Cedrusdeodara]

Bucked and split, then loaded and stacked nearly a cord of 2yr dried American Beech today. It was cut last fall as standing dead and layed for a year. The stuff split like paper blocks. Snap Some Holly and oak mixed in.

Now, arms ache, keep yawning, big ole glass of Cabernet, and a hot fire rolling in the stove. I think my work is done here, for now.

Life is good.

 

[SWNH]

Bucked and split, then loaded and stacked nearly a cord of 2yr dried American Beech today. The stuff split like paper blocks. Snap

Don't get the analogy. Paper blocks?

 

[semipro]

I was just thinking the same thing. My right arm is cramping from the chainsaw, my back is aching from lifting, and I twisted my knee moving the splitter. I'm worn out, sore, and overall, feeling pretty darn good about my day's work. The fire I'm sitting in front of is helping a little too as are a few beers, some Mexican food, and a margarita.

 

[LLigetfa]

My right arm is cramping from the chainsaw

Really? Do you have a left handed saw?

My left arm is cramping from the chainsaw. Right arm doesn't do much but hold the trigger. I was delimbing some blowdowns and standing dead Poplars. Decided I didn't want to keep it for firewood so I just cut it up to lay on the ground and rot. Some crap wood on the edge of the lawn I dragged over to the burn pile. First major snow to come and I will set the pile on fire.

 

[semipro]

Yeah, right arm. You're right though. You'd think it would be the other arm. Maybe it was the 12 oz curls I did afterwards.

Funny, I was wondering today as I worked the saw whether anyone made left-handed chainsaws.

My right arm is cramping from the chainsaw

Really? Do you have a left handed saw?

My left arm is cramping from the chainsaw. Right arm doesn't do much but hold the trigger. I was delimbing some blowdowns and standing dead Poplars. Decided I didn't want to keep it for firewood so I just cut it up to lay on the ground and rot. Some crap wood on the edge of the lawn I dragged over to the burn pile. First major snow to come and I will set the pile on fire.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I'm worn out already and I haven't even started to cut wood this year. That comes after deer season, when it gets cold. Then I keep warm by cutting wood.

 

[NitroDave]

Bucked and split, then loaded and stacked nearly a cord of 2yr dried American Beech today. It was cut last fall as standing dead and layed for a year.

Life is good.

How can it be 2 year dried when it was cut last fall ???

Sounds like a firewood seller...... Seasoned wood for sale,,,freshly split. LOL

 

[mtnmizer]

Been seeing the "Men Who Stare at Goats" trailers--will it work
on saw logs? Myself I try and do a half hour to a hour at a time
on the wood pile a few days a week--natures gym. Makes it easy to stay
a few years a head of the game...MM

 

['bert]

worn out here too. Finished up yesterday with somewhere between 8 - 10 cords that i picked up last week and hosted a party for my wife's 40th Bday.
Body seems OK, but for some reason woke up with a bit of a headache. A couple of MGD and a NASCAR race should put everything back on track.

 

[smokinj]

done three cords of it last sunday drop buck not splitt yet but there was three of us

 

[bill*67]

very sore myself. today was a perfect day to be in the woods and i dropped 4 more oaks from wilt. the truck and trailer were pretty loaded down. very happy about what i got acomplished today, but i know tomorrow i will feel it so i've started therapy with some cold bud lights and a musclerelaxer, a few splits in the stove, and the girlfriend promises a backrub-{we'll see}. I hope everyone else accomplished what they needed to today!

 

[Cedrusdeodara]

Bucked and split, then loaded and stacked nearly a cord of 2yr dried American Beech today. It was cut last fall as standing dead and layed for a year.

Life is good.

How can it be 2 year dried when it was cut last fall ???

Sounds like a firewood seller...... Seasoned wood for sale,,,freshly split. LOL

I did say last year and standing dead tree. The tree was already dead and seasoning when I cut it last year. Seemed like two years to me. I don't sell wood.

 

[ChrisNJ]

I am finding all the work invigorating and totally love the time I actually get out to split my wood. Although I have been sitting in a cube for the past 13 years, so I had nowhere to go but up in the area of stamina, hell I lost 10lbs since I got the stove last year and muscles I developed in childhood are actually starting to show again LOL.

 

[firefighterjake]

There's a bad worn out and tired feeling . . . and there is a good worn out and tired feeling. When I work with wood I may end the day or weekend feeling worn out and tired physically, but emotionally and mentally I am on Cloud 9.

 

[Danno77]

I wish I was tired from that kind of work. Instead I'm tired because someone thought it would be a good idea for us to both do a half-marathon with her dad / my father-in-law (who can turn down a cute gal in running shorts?). neither one of us has been "training" but at least she's been using the eliptical several times a week. throwing rounds into a stack and hefting around my chainsaw and maul didn't do much to prepare me for 13.1 miles..... At least we didn't go very fast.