Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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This is very true. Im at the gym lifting 4 days a week for strength benefits only. Hell you could even spend seven days a week at the gym but if you do it wrong you’re not gonna look “jacked” if that’s what you’re going for.
You are either “jacked” and all cut lean and LOOK strong. Or your strong and dont look so “jacked”. The bodybuilders at the gym that are all jacked and cut get mad when I guy like me that looks absolutely nothing like them can lift the same.
For 99% of people ....The only way to be cut/jacked bodybuilder looking AND be super strong is using drugs.
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Must be all that burnt up redline oil. 
Man you were out there early, bet it was pretty cool out when you got there.Thanks Brett. I knew with this tree I would be falling it across the road or rolling blocks into the road so tried to be there early, think I got there around 6:30 or 7. Thankfully no one came by until I was loaded ready to leave around 11. Met 3 more vehicles on the way out.
Yeah I put one block in the back of the pickup
I figured you would put something in there rather than leave it behind, just wasn't sure.
I'm ready to start splitting a bunch of the rounds I have here since it's starting to cool down a bit, I already cleaned a bunch of stuff up around the bonfire pit and I found a bunch of nice cherry rounds I'm going to split for the neighbor. He has a few trees we are going to take down this fall, he told me earlier last week he was going to use the cherry this winter because I said it was fast drying
, I said well if it was cut before the sap went into it early spring and it was all split( and out in the open to dry) it would be okay this yr, but not cut in the fall 
. He like the cherry because he has a fireplace, I get all the stinky locust .
I remember being in Jr High and working out with one of my friends at the local gym. There was a lady there that was very muscular. She definitely had significantly larger muscles than either of our scrawny butts. Then we watched her bench pressing and doing curls. I do not remember how much she could curl (it wasn't alot) but I just about fell through the floor when she struggled to do one rep of 135 on the bench.
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You do have to respect those guys. They dedicate a LOT of time to look like that. Its cool in its own way.
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I had a friend who was dead lifting and he was putting those things on his wrist to lift it, I asked if it was really that heavy and he said you cant lift it, you know how that worked out lol.
I've had quite a few guys help with firewood or on jobs that appeared as though they could outlift me, it amazed me how many times they couldn't get a couple hundred lb round or log onto the trailer. Many times its not how strong you are, but how to leverage what strength you do have.
All that being said I have no problem asking for help or others asking for help, nothing to prove by being a tough guy, I'm not getting any younger
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I've given up the really heavy stuff...I worked in a steel mill and as a well driller for a stretch, I was strong enough to dead lift the rear of my old Dodge off the ground, I used to move my kingpin 60s around by myself, I doubt I could lift one end now!
I ask for help or find some other way to deal with heavy stuff...make it smaller or use equipment, I'm already paying for being a brute earlier in life.
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Back about 40 years ago we were working on a gym at a federal law enforcement training center in Georgia. The boys were all working out with there weights and a couple of us were laughing at how they were straining. They challenged us to see who could lift more, they lost, no substitute for hard work. I used to like watching them at the bomb range, they would blow a truck tire about 150' in the air sometimes on fire.
Road Trip !
Another load dropped off at the undisclosed location
Another load dropped off at the undisclosed location
Home looks sound, hope they don't tear it downRoad Trip !
Another load dropped off at the undisclosed location
.Nice load.
Looks like you got some of those hybrid trees I've heard about, if you wouldn't have left a few branches on it I wouldn't have known
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Was just sitting here with my second cup of coffee thinking, man we are loosing light fast.Even dropped off a load at the undisclosed location for future use .
The days are getting shorter...
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Still sitting here, with 4th cup of coffee. Was waiting for it to get light, still quite dark. Checked weather, calling for severe thunder storms starting about now. Great!
Yep we are loosing a couple mins a day
.Last night it was dark pretty early here, it was 100% overcast so that didn't help.
I did split a face cord of cherry rounds that had been sitting by my bonfire pit, my neighbor will like that in his fireplace
.Also managed to clean up a bunch of brush and some odds of softwood from a pile, and pulled a couple stumps and got them burning and did some grading.
It seems on some of the hottest days I get the most done, and I better as winter will be here soon, but not soon enough
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Trying to beat the rain, I went down over the hill to finish my block wall for my firewood racks. Two weeks ago I spread two yards of gravel to put my racks on. Went down Sunday to set the racks up and stack what I have split. To my surprise, the big storm we had Saturday, washed half of my gravel down into the woods. Yesterday I bought a skid of 90 cinder blocks. Started dry stacking them. I set the first block about 2 inches deep, then just kept leveling the next one to the first. For 20 feet. Made it 3 courses high and back filled the outside with dirt about 1 1/2 courses high. Gonna fill the inside with stone dust 2 courses high. If I like it, next year I'll fill it all the way up to the caps and extend it up hill further. I think I'll use landscapers glue on top, and fill the corners with sacrete. So it's not a permanent structure. If it's permanent I need a permit.
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I had a friend who was dead lifting and he was putting those things on his wrist to lift it, I asked if it was really that heavy and he said you cant lift it, you know how that worked out lol.
I've had quite a few guys help with firewood or on jobs that appeared as though they could outlift me, it amazed me how many times they couldn't get a couple hundred lb round or log onto the trailer. Many times its not how strong you are, but how to leverage what strength you do have.
All that being said I have no problem asking for help or others asking for help, nothing to prove by being a tough guy, I'm not getting any younger
One of the strongest guys I know is a fella you can't see any muscle definition. Doesn't look like he should be that tough. He moves houses for a living and I am amazed when I watch him throw 6x6's like they are a toothpick. Than you shake his hand and you understand how strong he is.
Me on the other hand....You look at me and say "This guy ain't lifting sh!t" And by gosh you are probably right
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I'm 5'6" 150lbs slingin a 395 that sometimes has a 32" BnC. 30" waist. 42" chest. Arms like toothpics. Lifting rounds that I'm pretty sure sometimes weigh more than me.
