7 tenths of a cord the hard way.

[clint53]

I split up a load for my 92 year old neighbor today. Every stick was split from big wood by hand and every stick was red oak.

After stacking it he told me he wanted another load. I split most of the straight grain today, so I will get the splitter out for the next load.

A guy at work told me I was a fool for using a maul when I have a hydraulic splitter. Well if you don't use it, you lose it. I'm older than he is and I can still swing one fairly well. I will bet he can't keep up with me.

Thanks for looking.

 

[autoimage]

nice truck..that red oak splits like butter

 

[jimbojango]

Not bad for an old man, but you're already showing you're smarter than you look. A shortbed pickup isn't near as hard to fill as the long bed At least you're man enough to still be swinging, i'm a swinger too even though i have a 22 and 33 ton log splitter. I can outsplit my splitters in decent wood and use them just for the crap and crotches as well as the proverbial elm someone always brings by and just dumps in my yard.

Keep up the good work, and feel good knowing you're helping a 92 year old stay warm! no better feeling than that

 

[clint53]

nice truck..that red oak splits like butter

Yep, unless it had been trimmed back twice by the power company like this had. It was knotty on the outside badly, where they had cut limbs off and it had healed over.

 

[lone wolf]

I split up a load for my 92 year old neighbor today. Every stick was split from big wood by hand and every stick was red oak.

After stacking it he told me he wanted another load. I split most of the straight grain today, so I will get the splitter out for the next load.

A guy at work told me I was a fool for using a maul when I have a hydraulic splitter. Well if you don't use it, you lose it. I'm older than he is and I can still swing one fairly well. I will bet he can't keep up with me.

Thanks for looking.

You got to love Old School!

 

[clint53]

Not bad for an old man, but you're already showing you're smarter than you look. A shortbed pickup isn't near as hard to fill as the long bed At least you're man enough to still be swinging, i'm a swinger too even though i have a 22 and 33 ton log splitter. I can outsplit my splitters in decent wood and use them just for the crap and crotches as well as the proverbial elm someone always brings by and just dumps in my yard.

Keep up the good work, and feel good knowing you're helping a 92 year old stay warm! no better feeling than that

He is a tough knot and a Pearl Harbor survivor. At 92 he is still splitting wood by hand. He calls it productive exercise. I have learned much from him.

 

[jimbojango]

He is a tough knot and a Pearl Harbor survivor. At 92 he is still splitting wood by hand. He calls it productive exercise. I have learned much from him.

Sounds familiar, i have a buddy that turned 91 last week that was in WW2 and still farms with us and feeds my cows when the weather is to bad to get to him. He does have the advantage of the GOOD equipment so it'll actually start when its -10 and all that good stuff but he's a tough old thing. His wife died 3 or 4 years ago and he's been going strong since. He won't burn wood because since he got a pacemaker his doctor told him not to run a welder or chainsaw or else i'd cut him all the wood he needed.

 

[lone wolf]

Sounds familiar, i have a buddy that turned 91 last week that was in WW2 and still farms with us and feeds my cows when the weather is to bad to get to him. He does have the advantage of the GOOD equipment so it'll actually start when its -10 and all that good stuff but he's a tough old thing. His wife died 3 or 4 years ago and he's been going strong since. He won't burn wood because since he got a pacemaker his doctor told him not to run a welder or chainsaw or else i'd cut him all the wood he needed.

Good on ya bud!

 

[Torch68]

Passion just pure passion, good stuff!

 

[dave_dj1]

Good for you helping a neighbor! I just can't imagine hand splitting and owning two splitters! LOL Oh well, it probably keeps you in shape. I find that even using my splitter it's still hard work.
dave

 

[jimbojango]

Good for you helping a neighbor! I just can't imagine hand splitting and owning two splitters! LOL Oh well, it probably keeps you in shape. I find that even using my splitter it's still hard work.
dave

I'm only 28 and I'd get fat if i didn't split it by hand. Besides that i can split twice as much or more by hand in the same length of time as the splitter lol. I also split my trunks and big crap in the field into sizes that don't kill me to load. I imagine by the time i'm 40 i'll have a different outlook on a splitter.

 

[zogger]

WTG pops!

 

[tom reinbolt]

woof woof--great story--thanks!

 

[Poindexter]

Good feeling isn't it?

 

[GreaseMnky85]

Sure wish I could see the ground! Knee deep in snow and ice here in Michigan! I love them old timers My neighbor was a WWII vet when I was growing up and got many history lesson you would never get from a text book. I'm 28 do most of my splitting by hand working one getting a splitter tho for the tough stuff that just doesn't wanna split by hand. I have helped a few older folk with wood. 4 truck loads put a pretty big dent in my fire wood pile but glad I could help people.

 

[John R]

Good job, helping a neighbor.

 

[clint53]

Good feeling isn't it?

It makes you feel alive.

 

[TPA]

Nice Heeler! Thanks for helping the old fella.

 

[cre10]

Very nice! Good looking mutt too.

 

[Johnny Yooper]

way to go Clint53,. good to see there's some of us still out there. I just came in from splitting enough for tonight and tomorrow for the OWB; yes, I have a hydraulic splitter, but prefer to split by hand during the weeknights, like you...if you don't use it, you lose it; if I'm splitting a truckload or more, then I get out the hydraulics.