Mother Nature\'s Largesse
Took the dogs for a walk in our woods yesterday morning. Came across a dead tree blown down from a recent storm. A few kicks let me know it was dead but not rotten. Decided to cut it up for firewood. Back in the house and get my wife. She does love to use the chainsaw.
There is frozen snow on the ground so we use a "worksled". A plastic 6 foot long toboggan. Sold to hunters for pulling deer out of the woods so naturally it is blaze orange. Load up the sled with the saw, splitting axe and atool whose name escapes me. You use it to roll the log up off the ground while bucking it to lenght.
We trudge back to the tree and set to work. My wife running the saw and bucking the wood. I was splitting with the axe and loading the sled. It was cold and clear. A great day to be in the woods. Took us about an hour and we get a weeks worth of heat - what a great deal. And thanks to mom nature I didn't even have to fell it. Plus it was good and dead so we can burn it right away.
Took about 5 trips with the sled to load the woodbox. On the last trip we retrieved all the tools. Walking back I mentioned how easy this would have gone if we had a BX2200 with a FEL. My wife tolerates my lust for a tractor and goes with me to dealers and farm shows so she is familiar with all the brands. She points to the blaze sled and says that is all the orange I get for hauling wood. Gotta love her.
Phil
Took the dogs for a walk in our woods yesterday morning. Came across a dead tree blown down from a recent storm. A few kicks let me know it was dead but not rotten. Decided to cut it up for firewood. Back in the house and get my wife. She does love to use the chainsaw.
There is frozen snow on the ground so we use a "worksled". A plastic 6 foot long toboggan. Sold to hunters for pulling deer out of the woods so naturally it is blaze orange. Load up the sled with the saw, splitting axe and atool whose name escapes me. You use it to roll the log up off the ground while bucking it to lenght.
We trudge back to the tree and set to work. My wife running the saw and bucking the wood. I was splitting with the axe and loading the sled. It was cold and clear. A great day to be in the woods. Took us about an hour and we get a weeks worth of heat - what a great deal. And thanks to mom nature I didn't even have to fell it. Plus it was good and dead so we can burn it right away.
Took about 5 trips with the sled to load the woodbox. On the last trip we retrieved all the tools. Walking back I mentioned how easy this would have gone if we had a BX2200 with a FEL. My wife tolerates my lust for a tractor and goes with me to dealers and farm shows so she is familiar with all the brands. She points to the blaze sled and says that is all the orange I get for hauling wood. Gotta love her.
Phil
