Regrets

[Pain Cow]

Anybody else have any firewood related regrets that come to fruition in the dead of winter? For me it's a bunch of rounds that I stacked w/ out splitting. Some of it oak. I have plenty for the rest of the winter, it's just annoying. Since we've never had snow this bad here, I also regret not creating a pile near/on my side porch instead of the backyard. I've never had to shovel a path to the woodpile before. This hardcore storm has me reworking my approach.

 

[steveb76]

I regret being lazy and not cutting enough FREE wood, since I have access to as much as I want. I am only $200 deep on buying wood, and its mid Feb, so not too bad, but free is always better.

Next year is going to be different.

 

[loadthestove]

Wife came in from work today and asked what i wanted for dinner.Before I could answer she suggested bacon,eggs,gravy,biscuits.My lady is a great cook ,But like anyone she can have a dish that doesnt turn out like expected. here is where my regret comes from.When we were sitting at table eating I, In a joking manner ( At least I thought so) said...Honey cut me off another slice of gravy..it will probably be a long time before I get gravy again..

 

[madman39]

Wife came in from work today and asked what i wanted for dinner.Before I could answer she suggested bacon,eggs,gravy,biscuits.My lady is a great cook ,But like anyone she can have a dish that doesnt turn out like expected. here is where my regret comes from.When we were sitting at table eating I, In a joking manner ( At least I thought so) said...Honey cut me off another slice of gravy..it will probably be a long time before I get gravy again..

lol!!!:jawdrop:

 

[flotek]

my biggest regret is i used fuel oil for many years before i got smart and switched to wood heat ,i know i could have saved well over 10 grand but instead gave it to foreign oil distributors who hate my way of life

 

[dingeryote]

Underestimating the burn rate of Boxelder, and 2 year seasoned Cherry.

Had to break into the Red Oak early, and the Walnut is still buried..
I gotta reorganize the stash layout and figure out a way to plow around things.

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[KsWoodsMan]

Wife came in from work today and asked what i wanted for dinner.Before I could answer she suggested bacon,eggs,gravy,biscuits.My lady is a great cook ,But like anyone she can have a dish that doesnt turn out like expected. here is where my regret comes from.When we were sitting at table eating I, In a joking manner ( At least I thought so) said...Honey cut me off another slice of gravy..it will probably be a long time before I get gravy again..

Besides cold cuts and glaring looks, I'm guessing it might be awhile before you get anything again. Eh, it keeps you on your toes at least.

Regrets ? that I didn't get all I had cut brought in to sell.

 

[indiansprings]

Should have had another 70-80 cords cut and stacked before the selling season began, lately have just been playing catch up, we finally got a whole cord ahead of the outstanding orders today, and I getting too old for this.
The boys better plan on seeing a whole lot less of me next year.
We'll spend all spring and early summer stockpiling and it'll probably be the warmest winer on record next year, that's how it usually goes. lol

 

[Haywire Haywood]

Not building the wood shed just a little bit larger.

Ian

 

[CrappieKeith]

Wife came in from work today and asked what i wanted for dinner.Before I could answer she suggested bacon,eggs,gravy,biscuits.My lady is a great cook ,But like anyone she can have a dish that doesnt turn out like expected. here is where my regret comes from.When we were sitting at table eating I, In a joking manner ( At least I thought so) said...Honey cut me off another slice of gravy..it will probably be a long time before I get gravy again..

Well either your a newbie in the marraige game and didn't know any better or you've been at it for some time and don't care but either way it looks like your gonna drop some weight with this new diet of eating your words.LMAO!!!!

The only regret I have is that I did not teach my faithful dog to load the furnace enabling me to stay out on the ice a bit longer!

 

[Laird]

Not building the wood shed just a little bit larger.

Ian

LOL I hear that...... I thought mine would hold about two years worth, but looks like it will be about 3-4 cords short.

 

[crashagn]

I deeply regret giving away that Areins 2 stage snowblower I was gonna tinker with. Just kept being in the way out in the storage shed. I think it just needed a float..Got a loader but that snowblower would really be nice going between the wood piles..Ohh well i know were a craftsman tracked job is without a engine.. and i can find a engine easy enough..

 

[howellhandmade]

Wife came in from work today and asked what i wanted for dinner.Before I could answer she suggested bacon,eggs,gravy,biscuits.My lady is a great cook ,But like anyone she can have a dish that doesnt turn out like expected. here is where my regret comes from.When we were sitting at table eating I, In a joking manner ( At least I thought so) said...Honey cut me off another slice of gravy..it will probably be a long time before I get gravy again..

Heh. The good book says, jest not at all. I sort of regret giving away a bunch of limb wood and short blocks from the big oaks I had taken down last summer. I didn't have a good handle on how fast I'd go through wood relying on it full time, and the 7 cords of oak stacked neatly in the yard, plus another 2 cords of locust, seemed like all the wood in the world. I was thinking 3, 4 years maybe. :newbie:

I say sort of regret because I'm glad to be able to give things to people, but that small stuff would be just about seasoned now and would help keep me out of the wood that I'd have preferred to leave alone until next winter. So far I've gone through a half cord of seasoned cherry, a cord and a half of 2-year locust, and another cord and a half of standing dead locust and oak from last summer. It was a little soon on the oak, but I knew I'd need it so I stacked it in my sunniest, most exposed spot and it worked out fine.

Jack

 

[mga]

i deeply regret not marrying donald trump's daughter, ivana.

 

[gwiley]

My biggest regret is not installing the CB5036 the same year I built the house - many years of propane $$$ gone up in smoke.....I could have bought the nicest NEW Bobcat for what I spent in propane before going to OWB.

My next biggest regret is not spending more time last year cutting the free firewood - spent $300 this season (and that will probably be it).

One final regret is not getting solar and batteries installed to power the air handler, pump and OWB so that I wouldn't need to drag the generator out during an outage.

 

[headleyj]

- regret not going CB on the OWB

- regret not getting my 372XPW and 346XP 2 years ago

- regret not building the woodshed 2x the size it is

- regret I don't have pallet forks yet


all in all not huge regrets. It seems my "regrets" are more of a "lessons learned" or hindsight than anything

 

[tnxm]

Not having a stock pile of wood for sale, and now have orders and have to go cut. It wouldn't be so bad if we didn't get 2 feet of snow the last 3 days, may have to turn some away

 

[headleyj]

#1 regret thus far

- Not being able to spend more time in the woods

 

[time warp]

Times two,my biggest regret is also not spending enough time in the woods. Seems whenever I have time to cut the weather says otherwise.

 

[WetBehindtheEar]

Don't Get me started

Biggest regrets...

Not 'doing it' with my HS sweetheart...

Watching TV instead of studying hard enough in college...

Spending too much time on the road and away from home/family/home fires

Not making love to my wife enough...or giving her the break from the kids enough to make her want to