Thread: Just have to get out!

Okay call it cabin fever I have to get out and cut wood I have my winter supply and then some seasoned and stacked but I need to hear my saw's and smell the two stroke oil lol.I know I have thousands of trees down due to the high winds in Nov but the last few day's it's been too cold to get them and the snow too deep. The Chinook is here We went from -38 to +2°C. But with Xmas coming I just don't have the time I think I will go boxing boxing day and get some wood but that is still a week away,plus I need to buy tire chains to fit my new truck any body try the cable chains? I have to get out I am going nut's!

I lost a member of the family recently my nieces husband passed away so going out to the wood's for me since I am not a religious man is therapy. Cutting wood is very relaxing for me I do sometimes take a tach and 3 or 4 saw's to play with but the play also heats the house.
I need to get out and cut a cord or two for the 2011 stack, plus the hound found a chainsaw file and brought it to me today I can take a hint!

I hear ya. I am going nuts here at the house. I am taking the stepson and cutting cedar posts after this weekend. I can't take being locked in the house all winter.

Cable chains are okay for cars on the hiway. For a trk off roads, real chains are the only way to go. If you want a really killer pair of off road chains, go to a cood chains supply house and get extra cross chains, enough to put an added cross link between the existing cross chains, unstopable, not good for hiway use...

Oh ya,I understand the therapy aspect.I've got an owb and 14 acres of hardwood behind my house.My wife says I'd better keep myself under control/how much firewood do we really need.It gives me a reason to ,weather permitting,just kick back on a stump and drink a frosty cold one.Gotta watch that fiskars splitting axe if I continue after some beer.Enjoy,Merry christmas

+ 1 on the therapy aspect. When my dad died, the first thing I did was go out and buy a ton of comedy dvd's. Laughing at george carlin works better than crying and talking to the sky-for me anyway.
A good cigar and a stroll through the woods never fails.

Originally Posted by Pain Cow

+ 1 on the therapy aspect.

+2 on the therapy aspect.
A couple of months ago I was diagnosed with ADD(way over due) I find firewood gathering to be the best therapy. When I. Am working switching from bucking to spliting to stacking often may not be the most efficient way to work but it seems to be ok for me.

You can lose yourself when doing firewood (in a good way). Between hauling logs to the trailer, splitting them etc I find anything that concerns me just melts away.

Get home, tired and sore (depending on how hard you push it) kick back with the family, drink a beer. What is better?

Originally Posted by Tesen

You can lose yourself when doing firewood (in a good way). Between hauling logs to the trailer, splitting them etc I find anything that concerns me just melts away.

Get home, tired and sore (depending on how hard you push it) kick back with the family, drink a beer. What is better?

I definately agree. I concentrate so much on what I am doing like trying not to get complacent with the saw, splitter and splitting maul that I don't think about everything else going on with life in general.

A long day of turning a tree into stacks of firewood= Good sleep at night.

Originally Posted by WidowMaker

Cable chains are okay for cars on the hiway. For a trk off roads, real chains are the only way to go. If you want a really killer pair of off road chains, go to a cood chains supply house and get extra cross chains, enough to put an added cross link between the existing cross chains, unstopable, not good for hiway use...

Ya I think I will go with Real chains too, Have them for all my other trucks except my new Wood hauler I have never been Stuck with Chains on with my 4x4s been Stuck once with them in my old 68 chev 2wd but I carry a ton of recovery gear

Originally Posted by SSG Medic

I definately agree. I concentrate so much on what I am doing like trying not to get complacent with the saw, splitter and splitting maul that I don't think about everything else going on with life in general.

A long day of turning a tree into stacks of firewood= Good sleep at night.

Yes it's like Elk or Deer hunting I forget about Everything and just look for wood. In a way I would also like to get my 2011 Stack done by March and do some more Spring fishing next year.
You now you have cad when it hurts to leave a few saw's behind, it's so bad I only take one litre of mix with me if I have 3 saw's I have been doing that for years. The Macs have small tanks and are pigs on fuel but I can cut a full truck load 3/4 of a cord with my 7900 or 2159 on just one tank plus a bit and I mean a bit probably 250ml or a cup of fuel extra.
Being in the woods helps me think I did that before I bought my home and before I popped the ? to the Wife. I just left to be deep in the woods and mountains too think Dam I love the Mountains.

Originally Posted by garyischofield

Oh ya,I understand the therapy aspect.I've got an owb and 14 acres of hardwood behind my house.My wife says I'd better keep myself under control/how much firewood do we really need.It gives me a reason to ,weather permitting,just kick back on a stump and drink a frosty cold one.Gotta watch that fiskars splitting axe if I continue after some beer.Enjoy,Merry christmas

I am so glad I have a splitter now and my shoulder thanks me I hung up the Axe& maul, well still use the Axe need to drive wedges and split small wood. I don't have enough land to cut on but since I live close to very big Forrest areas not a prob but just looking at a co workers truck that had a tree fall on it wile he was hunting in November tells me I have thousands of down or almost down timber

I hear ya on the cabin fever. 1 week ago right now I was waking up from knee surgery. I have been laying one my back pretty much since then. I am about stir crazy. I need to go visit MY Dr. That is Dr Wood. He fixes the weakest body of my body, my brain.