Help I'm lazy and I can't get started

[TonyK]

I admit I like felling and blocking best. Getting it out of the woods is a close second. Splitting and stacking is such a chore to me that I always leave it to the bitter end. At the moment I have about 8 cord sitting in a pile and I just can't bring myself to go out and start in on it. I thought that I would get it done before the temps climbed up but now it is getting hotter and harder to get started. Someone please shame me into actually finishing this.

 

[amert]

No need to get in a hurry now, its only June, there is plenty of time for it to get REALLY HOT!! I would at least wait til' like late July! :msp_w00t:

 

[CTYank]

Hire somebody to split it. Then you'll have good reason to get mad at yourself.

 

[ShaneLogs]

If you have a splitter then you have no need to whine. All you have to do is stand there and hold the lever instead of swinging a axe.

 

[zogger]

Dang lazy punks today, can't swing an axe worth nuthin

sit on their butts all day long, play video games, eat cheetos, come winter wonder why they get 500 dollar heating bills.

--I don't make a chore of it. I split a little bit every night as the sun is going down and it is getting cooler out. Have my evening meal, then walk the dogs, then come back and they play in the yard while I split until dark, then a little campfire with bark scraps and oddball chunks fire TV action and chill out, then that's it, chain em up and come inside and harangue lazy punks on the internets!

Split as little as 1/8th cord a day, after a month, that adds up, after two months...and so on. See? If it isn't a chore and you keep it to a fun level, it still gets done. Don't look at your huge pile, look at..whatever, split three or four big blocks a day, flip them over, then look at that little pile. Just three or four. It ain't much, knock it out. Next day, do it again, don't hardly even glance at the huge pile.

 

[Ductape]

I'd offer some words of wisdom......... sep'n I'm too lazy. :msp_wink:

 

[dingeryote]

Meh...

I have 4 cord of Hickory stems piled up, and another 2 cord of split Cottonwood in a pile that needs stacking.
And an easy 5 cord still in the woods waiting to get skidded out.

Just not into it either.
Too busy with other stuff that can't wait.
It's gonna suck come September.

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[Whitespider]

I find the easiest way to get myself motivated for working firewood during "summertime heat" is to get up early and be actually working as soon as it's light enough to see what you're doing ('round here that's about 4:45 AM this time of year). On a Saturday or Sunday I'll get out'a bed at 4:00, have coffee and be outside by 4:30 or so ('course that means goin' easy on the beer the night before and in bed early, but I'm normally in bed just after sundown anyway). Get the splitter pulled into the woodlot and the trailer hooked-up, and start splittin', loadin', haulin' and stackin' well before 5:00. Once I get into the "mode" I'll usually stick with it until at least noon... sometimes a bit longer (depends on how hot it gets).

But if'n I wait until after sunup it just don't seem to get done... I can't get motivated.
I've even gone out early and decided to maybe cleanup the shop a little first, or do a quick oil change on something, and then I just don't seem to get at it... Workin' firewood in the summertime has to be the very first thing I do in the morning, or it just don't happen. Sometimes, the night before, I'll pull the trailer out to the woodlot and leave it there, hook the splitter to the tractor, gas everything up and get all the gear I'll be needing (hatchet, axes, wedges, cooler, whatever) loaded so all I have to do when I walk out the door at 4:30 is jump on the tractor and start it... drive to the work area with coffee cup in hand.

Startin' and finishin' early leaves the remainder of the day for other things... like beer drinkin' :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[unclemoustache]

It's the 'starting' that is always tough for us lazy people. I find that if I can just convince myself to get her started, then I can continue, so I suggest you have a goal of splitting ONE round - that's it. Just get out there and do ONE, and then you can be done, but then once you split that one, and you're already out there, you might as well split another. And another.

Now quit whining and get out there and split it, ya fat lazy bum!! :msp_thumbup:

 

[greendohn]

Leave 'till fall.

Summer time is for FISHIN' !!!!

It'll be okay, honest. Throw on yer' beater shoes and grab yer fishin' rig. Tool on over to the closest river and tie on "the secret bait",, Wade rite onto the river and start casting, once ya' hook a "smallie" and it EXPLODES outta the water violently thrashin' and bashin' tail dancin' across the water,,,only to dive deep and makin' a run for the next county,,,,you'll forget all about any of that wood splittin' nonsense.

That kind of excitement is better fer yer' heart than a cardiologist!! Honest!! (just don't ask my good wife,,she don't get it)

 

[Blazin]

I admit I like felling and blocking best. Getting it out of the woods is a close second. Splitting and stacking is such a chore to me that I always leave it to the bitter end. At the moment I have about 8 cord sitting in a pile and I just can't bring myself to go out and start in on it. I thought that I would get it done before the temps climbed up but now it is getting hotter and harder to get started. Someone please shame me into actually finishing this.

Split and stack the wood already you lazy ####ing piece of ####!!!!! There...that should do it


I've got a 10 cord pile of logs that I keep staring at! Sooner or later it will cut and split itself

 

[slowp]

Welcome to the Lazy club. I'm enjoying my morning coffee, and trying to decide what to do today, or what not to do.

I'll start by going for a long walk with The Used Dog. Sometimes that kicks in the endorphins which make me even lazier....

It is nice to be able to be lazy.

 

[Sport Faller]

you guys are adorable,bucking/limbing/splitting/stacking/loading/unloading, just like the ant in the ant and the grasshopper
I Sportfall, therefore I am the grasshopper, when it comes to trees.... dump em and let em lay
once the fun's all over with just pack your saw, axe, and wedges back to the truck and hit the road

 

[ponyexpress976]

Im with Zogger on this one...whack at it a little here and there. Do a whellbarrow load a day first thing in the morning before work. Tell the wife/girlfriend it's your new gym routine and you're gettin in shape just for her.

 

[turnkey4099]

You could cure the whole problem. Jusst make the pile disappear over to my place. I won't even charge you very much.

Harry K

 

[Steve2910]

Find somebody local who also burns wood. Work on your pile one day & his the next. Having some one to talk to (especially if they share your sense of humor) takes the drudgery out of it.

 

[J.W Younger]

Sometimes I split and stack after the sun goes down and it would annoy the neighbors but they left, LOL.

 

[Laird]

Im with Zogger on this one...whack at it a little here and there. Do a whellbarrow load a day first thing in the morning before work. Tell the wife/girlfriend it's your new gym routine and you're gettin in shape just for her.

+1 :agree2:

 

[zogger]

you guys are adorable,bucking/limbing/splitting/stacking/loading/unloading, just like the ant in the ant and the grasshopper
I Sportfall, therefore I am the grasshopper, when it comes to trees.... dump em and let em lay
once the fun's all over with just pack your saw, axe, and wedges back to the truck and hit the road

--the wood isn't used, you just fell trees and leave them? Or does someone else get the wood?

 

[SPDRMNKY]

You could cure the whole problem. Jusst make the pile disappear over to my place. I won't even charge you very much.

Harry K

KS is closer than WA...and I'll even knock a nickel off what Harry's chargin'