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is it just me or do only the foolish heat with wood when there are other alternatives to keeping warm? simple question I "WOOD" guess! lol

the old almanac says more of everything again this heating season. looks like we peps here in minnesota will get our first heavy snow on Friday/Saturday/sunday.... the weather channel looks for a 3 day storm short and fast with today being in the easy 70* mark .. we shall see and feel ?

4/20/19 went from fire in the am and now air @ 75*outside, set to 68 inside just to be comfortable in a temp swing.... go figure...…….

another firewood ordering season has began again. the first of my best 2 big ordering customers ordered their winter heating supply early again …. the client with group homes and a horse riding/training arena will be accepting 25 more cords of 24" to30" unsplit boiler wood . HAPPY DAY'S AGAIN!

my old reliable 1992 duerr 20 ton finally took its last crap! one new engine and a new control valve over 20 long years and she don't owe me a sliver of wood! to change things up, mills fleet farm had a sale on a lumber jack 25 ton for 910.00 out the door. got it home and filled the gas tank...

just out of curiosity, who is our oldest and youngest members here on Arboristsite and still actively producing firewood/logs/sawdust in any way, shape, form?? "HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018" !!

need to find a replacement for the jred 2159.. looking towards the "husky555" or possibly the jred 2260 which are both in the same cc class. anyone care to share their likes and dislikes?

first two cord order, of this heating seasons orders have arrived. 3 year old dry blackened red oak starts out earlier then past years? maybe a sign of early cold or nervous prospectors? high fuel prices looking to hit the roof with natures wrath might make for an interesting year!

sold 4.5 cords today to end a great year for firewood sales. already loaded back up for a 1.5 cord sales on the new year for a start. hope that this new year is as good as the waning year was! wishing everyone a safe night and a better new year!

just out of curiosity who are your main firewooding helpers ? mine at times are a 4 wheeler to tractors and mostly these two little wood rat's! boy's unloading the chips, rakings from PaPa,s splitting last week.... after we got started on a pickup load of dry/green red oak . started at noon and...

I am a happy pappy wood cutting camper! at the start of this years heating season! scored a good sales from a craigslist ad, for 30 cords of boiler wood. 24" lengths and a 50/50 % mixture of blocks and splits. 5 species of dry/green right out of the forest to a big azz wood burning boiler 5...

going to start a new wood puller project for making firewood or logging, not really sure what it's going to be? here is what I have to start with an axle from a f 250 3/4 ton, a wrecker boom that is an A FRAME HOLMS 440 RAMSEY 10,000# 12 VOLT WINCH, 8' long ball coupler hitch. salvaging heavy...

this has got to be the worst fall/winter for logging I have ever seen! it's the 7th of dec. and the ground is like early april with mud.... started at 7:30 this morning and the ground was reasonably hard with frost at 27 degrees. by noon the county shut me down for the day till things either dry...

so after being lined up with the new natural gas line to the home, it's time for the switch from lp to nat. gas!! had the line ran nearly a year ago and just now using the rest of the "GOLDEN LACED LP" down to 12% to have the tide turn for myself instead of the "PROPANE MAN".... TODAY WAS A...

with a cool north wind blowing at a steady 12 mph all day and splitting/stacking this winters wood and sweat! there's a fire going to warm my old bones to chase away the pains of over doing it at the wood pile! low 60's here today for a high and over nite's low dipping to 40 something, it's...

after blocking a semi load of bigger red oak bolts(14" to 30") for firewood to 16" lengths I am at the point of not wanting to split all of this! my question to you all is which is the better of the two tasks you prefer blocking or splitting? blocking goes faster and splitting takes forever it...

the big rig's, for going into them places your just not meant to be in? tow this old unit behind the tractor to gather some of the nicer butt cuts from the blow down area I have been cutting in off an on through the winter. mounting a 4500 pound super winch instead of the old hand crank. this...

it's cold out there this morning before the big heat up we all have been waiting for.... here in P-logger, mn. it was -26 degrees at 6 am with a wind chill of-35 below zero... a fresh coat of heavy wet sow(5.5") that fell on Monday an Tuesday didn't help the warm temps that were here making it...

so what's your winter(s) project for them to cold winter days ahead? mines looking a bit under the weather for now,. she is a diamond in the rough, if you have a keen eye for what was, has been, could be or will be again . oldest son helped me with this old rust bucket from the past to see if...

? anyone know what the going pay rate is for an experienced hardwood tree faller? sited here in northern Minnesota, and having been out of the game for about 10 years as a hired faller! I will be cutting red/white oaks as well as larger big tooth poplar/aspen. handling all my own insurance's...