Who cuts only as a hobby?

[034avsuper]

Just wondering if theres anybody else out there who cuts strictly as a hobby? I don't cut firewood and I'm not a logger/arborist, etc. I'm just a cookie cutter. Is there anyone else that does this?

 

[FATGUY]

cookie cutter here too, but we are definately the minority.

 

[webie]

What if your a logger and a firwood cutter ?
Is that an other then ?

 

[BryanEx]

I cut to maintain my sugar bush. Weak, damaged, poorly formed, and/or crowded trees are culled to make room for my best crop trees but any wood dropped is processed for firewood as a secondary use.

 

[GlenM]

Hobby only, getting increasingly difficult to find 'hobby' trees...........

 

[gemniii]

I cut and mill for the pleasure of smelling the exhaust, the sweet sound of a two stroke next to my head, the fun of climbing up trees to drop limbs, but mostly for the pleasure of getting rid of excess cash at Bailey's.

 

[rxe]

I cut lots of my own firewood - wood fired central heating, hot water and cooking.

That said, I can't argue that I need 26 chainsaws to cut firewood, so I suppose I'm a hobbyist as well!

 

[miking]

I do timber thinnings / stand improvements for my business, with occasional tree trimming and firewood cutting rarely.

 

[slowp]

Other? I'm a logologist and blowdown in the road bucker outer. So I'd best check other. I guess....

 

[SawTroll]

Firewood, all the way from standing green to splitting.

 

[redunshee]

cookie cutter here too, but we are definately the minority.

I'd cut cookies but then I'd likely eat them.

 

[TheKnot]

As my first post i cut firewood

First off thanks for having me this is a fun place to visit and read .I've been cutting firewood since i'am 14 years old thats 34 years first with my dad for the house for warmth at 17 for just about everything 14" mini mac got me started .At 18 i got a pickup and have been harvesting wood ever since for backyard burning and meat smoking in my weber kettles and smokers .Also lucky enought to have a frind with a fire pit behind his bar theres always a load to work on life long cutting and splitting keeps me sane and in shape

good fun and free, chris

 

[redunshee]

When in Vermont I cut firewwod for heating. All the way from standing timber to splitting and burning. Figure it costs me at least $1,000/cord. Cost of saw, tractor for dragging out logs, splitter, woodstove, trip to emergency room for medical attention.
Bob

 

[FATGUY]

When in Vermont I cut firewwod for heating. All the way from standing timber to splitting and burning. Figure it costs me at least $1,000/cord. Cost of saw, tractor for dragging out logs, splitter, woodstove, trip to emergency room for medical attention.
Bob

good one Bob!

 

[nmurph]

cookie cutter---10%
firewood---40%
stand improvement and wildlife management---50%
get away from the Warden---100%

 

[Kenskip1]

Now here in Texas,I do not have a very large request for fire wood and it is just to damn hot. I have access to more mesquite and oak than I am able to mention.I do this as a hobby mostly to keep my sanity and to try to make my saws run and cut to their highest peek! I do use some of the wood to smoke meats. As a matter of fact I have a Brisket on the smoker now, Ken

Theknot,
Chris,what part of NY? I lived in Oneida county for 20 years! Ken

 

[Plankton]

I do stand improvement/thinning, I get called up by the town and do State forest road clearing and the occasional roadside hazard. Also me and a few guys do small-ish land clearing jobs.

I also make chordwood so I checked other.

 

[FATGUY]

I think as well as running saws for fun, I enjoy working on them. Mabe even more than working with them. What I love the most is to take them apart and leave them in boxes in my machine shop.:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[MadMax5578]

I cut firewood for two wood burning households, soon to be three this coming winter and I hope to be selling roadside "camping" wood by next summer (we get a lot of casino city slickers who go camping without any fire wood!). But it is still my hobby, as I work my regular job 5-6 days a week......

 

[BloodOnTheIce]

I've got around 10 saws, 3 are strictly racers, 2 are firewood saws, the rest are projects and parts saws. I spend much more time on tweeking, and working on the race saws, than I do cutting firewood. So I'm a hobbyist/ weekend racer.