AGAIN,I APPRECIATE ALL YOUR REPLIES!!!! there is some great stories,some tear jerkers.....My dad and his family cut wood and sold nuts,and what ever else they could do when he was a kid,to get by....so by time i came along he didnt want or care to mess with burning firewood..but he taut me me the things i needed to know about doing it,how to run saw and work on it......retired now truck driver,he stills fixes things,mechanic for people......he says most time,from chainsaws to weed eaters,usually carb cleaning and fuel line are biggest problems-well and that people dont want to fix because they dont know how,or have the experience to..and or its becoming a throw away world....i seen him put snowmobile engine on golf cart-that thing would scream! take stuck engine been sitting for years and get it running,fabricate parts that could not get anymore or afford,to make something work....so for me running a saw to cut wood was in teens helping my uncle who burnt wood,i help him when i could.of course working construction in my teens we used a chainsaw alot and still do,to cut trees out and to cut the 6x6 post for pole barns,standing on the trusses to top them..ididnt start burning my own wood till about 10 year ago,and me and uncle usually cut together,hes 73 and still going cutting and hand splitting!! we usually split the wood,i always give him the lions share! good times......and iam only 44,and i hear ya speaking about the big 30" plus rounds,there getting heavy,because it cant be me???right??.....yep i have started to noodle some of those big rounds lately myself..being avid weight lifter all my life,its hard to not try to lift it first,then cut if i cant.......still some young and dumb i guess..o and yep my poor old pickup truck has a lot of dents on the top bed side of rounds that were to heavy to lift and it took all i had to lift them their,then roll on over....