I cut firewood because I ........

[Islero]

I gather and process firewood because it is what I learned to do from my grandparents and parents. Some of my earliest memories are from helping my grandmother and mother gather small limbs and place them into the large baking ovens outside. There is nothing better than sitting under the trees with friends and family eating fresh baked bread covered with butter. The warmth generated by firewood is so gentle and nurturing. The processing of firewood is fun and therapeutic. Essentially, gathering, processing, cooking and warming with firewood is as natural to us as watching the sun rise every morning and set every evening. For us gathering, blocking, splitting and stacking firewood is a fact of life and it isn't questioned.

 

[philoshop]

...because I'd prefer not to freeze to death.

 

[Whitespider]

... because the wife won't let me teach the boy how to run the saw yet.
But hey, maybe this year... I mean, after all, today is his sixth birthday.
*

 

[autoimage]

....will have to pry a 372xp from my cold dead hands

 

[greendohn]

I'm married with children, it gets me out of the house!! LOL
To heat this old house to 70 degrees when it's -6 outside with -22 windchills would be cost prohibitive using L.P.
We used wood stoves when I was a kid and I've just always loved the whole wood heat process.

 

[stihl sawing]

My wife makes me and she is hulk hogans sister.

 

[tbow388]

Because I am too cheap to pay for heat!!!

 

[stihlaficionado]

I thoroughly enjoy not giving Ameren an extra $2,000 a year. And I need to do something with the 11 saws I have...

 

[Coldfront]

Because I am too cheap to pay for heat!!!

+2 I'm a cheap bastard and don't want to pay the gas man.

 

[djones]

...don't like paying the oil man.
...enjoy being in the woods.
...can write off the chainsaws as a farm expense.
...fuel my CAD that way.
...can justify my time spent with you guys.
...have 12 acres of standing timber to thin out.

 

[Mike-M]

1. really enjoy the woods
2. i get to exercise my non go-to saws
3. i like to split wood by hand, its fun.

 

[zogger]

I am designated saw guy on the farm, The only thing in the past buncha years that got cut that I didn't do was the boss's friends who are bucket truck guys, they have trimmed some trees. Of course they just dropped the branches down and I cut them up. I maintain the edges of the pastures and fence lines, so it is a lot of cutting. I have to start this year some time clearing around the chicken houses, this will be a LOT of cutting.

I have wood heat

Been cutting since 1970 for cleanup various places or for firewood

I like it, getting more into doing problem trees for the engineering aspects of it

Fiskarizing rounds into splits is my target shooting sport

Bringing back the firewood is my hunting sport, including big fat round "trophies"

Taking the tractor into the woods is fun, I get paid to go bogging.....

 

[KindredSpiritzz]

because i like the magic of a flame on a cold winters tempest

 

[chucker]

because ? I can, I do, it's fun, out of doors, free feeling, no one looking over my shoulder, no boss, way to many reasons to cut firewood besides the obvious excuse's............ lol

 

[redfin]

Its just the whole process for me. From maintaining my saws to the final satisfaction of the warmth coming from the vents.

Just as harvesting meat or fish. I enjoy having as little outside influence as possible to achieve the goal.

 

[513yj]

... I have a problem with wood.

At least that's what my wife says...

 

[Fred Wright]

We like a warm home without bank-breaking heating bills.

 

[longbowch]

... because the wife won't let me teach the boy how to run the saw yet.
But hey, maybe this year... I mean, after all, today is his sixth birthday.
*

Tell him happy birthday from AS


Sent via mental telepathy

 

[Pcoz88]

Love doing it and being outdoors!!!!Running all kinds of Big Boy Toys!!!

 

[cheeves]

Besides loving it, we really can't afford not to up here! Between the mortgage, taxes, and trying to eat there's no way we could afford the piped in gas we have here!
Gas furnace has been shut of completely for a # of years! Actually been burning wood since the oil embargo of the 70's!