A windy haul

[haveawoody]

Last week we had a very windy day.
A couple days later my neighbor stopped in with a keg And $300 and asked if i could clear up a bunch of fallen trees for him.
It took most of the keg each night to recover for the next morning to complete the clear up on this endless job. LOL

Picture taken at about 1/2 way done.pile 6'x12'x20' at picture.
Sugar maple and norway maple.

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[cnice_37]

Seriously? Who shows up with a keg?

Damn cheap Americans, all I get is a 6-pack.

 

[Iska3]

Besides the Great Moose Hunting and Fishing, you just gave me another good reason for going back up to Canada. Hate to see you working on that Keg all by yourself..

That be a nice pile of wood for sure.

 

[ss~zoso~ss]

you left out the most important part.....

WHAT WAS IN THE KEG!

 

[Rsquared]

Is it just me, or does beer just taste so much better after cutting wood? :msp_smile:

 

[beerman6]

:msp_confused:

 

[cnice_37]

you left out the most important part.....

WHAT WAS IN THE KEG!

also, we need pics or it didn't happen

 

[Dan_IN_MN]

Nice haul!

beer + :chainsawguy: = :sword: :msp_w00t:

Isn't running a saw danger enough? Perhaps after the saws are put away would be a better idea. It's your body......

I don't drink, however, I do get tired easy and I know when I'm tired It's time to put away the saw.

 

[ShaneLogs]

Is it just me, or does beer just taste so much better after cutting wood? :msp_smile:

It's just you, LOL. I love me a water after cutting wood or some fruit juice of any type. :msp_smile:

 

[H 2 H]

That guy should have got a pizza each night also nothing goes better than wood cutting; beer and pizza :jester:

 

[haveawoody]

cnice_37,

My neighbor across the road.
He knows my cryptonite well LOL
Money mainly to cover gas to haul and cut.

The bill for a standard tree service for him would have been brutal to clean up and he is plowing for his crop so little time for him.
He has lent me heavy equipment a couple times so returning the favour is always nice.

Only picture i have and wife took it, guess i looked dirty and tired so good photo op time for her LOL.
I didn't take a camera to his place to take any shots of the disaster zone.



Iska3,

I've been working on it for a while but it never seems to be going down, got to love a keg of beer

ss~zoso~ss,

I think it's just bar tap draft beer.
Hard to say what it is but it's an ok beer.

manyhobies,

I only work on the keg after working on the wood.
A few cool glass of beer after a long day is nice, a few more and the morning is slow motion though.

 

[Rsquared]

I did say AFTER cutting wood does a beer taste better than at any other time
I never drink and drive anything
I never drink and run a chain saw
I never drink and use my log splitter
I never even drink and stack wood
Now... I will
Drink and stoke a fire and bask in its warmth
Drink and admire my wood piles
Drink and talk endlessly to my wife about God's greatest gift to man, the woodstove

Just how I roll.......

 

[JcbyFong]

you just gave me another good reason for going back up to Canada.

 

[Gavman]

I did say AFTER cutting wood does a beer taste better than at any other time
I never drink and drive anything
I never drink and run a chain saw
I never drink and use my log splitter
I never even drink and stack wood
Now... I will
Drink and stoke a fire and bask in its warmth
Drink and admire my wood piles
Drink and talk endlessly to my wife about God's greatest gift to man, the woodstove

Just how I roll.......

Cant say I never did any of that....

 

[Steve NW WI]

Haveawoody, nice work...and I've been paid in similar beer equivalents before. People know me I guess.

I never even drink and stack wood

Just how I roll.......

I wouldn't have any wood in stacks working by your rules! Once the wood is cut and split, the cold ones ARE coming out and I can either just start drinking, or I can drink and stack. Stacking sober is no way to go through life, son.

 

[turnkey4099]

also, we need pics or it didn't happen

You do realize that by the time you posted that there was nothing left in the keg to take picture of?

Harry K

 

[Whitespider]

It’s just beer!! As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Proof that god loves us!!”
Up until prohibition, a bucket of beer was routinely given to laborers at lunch time… it kept them happy, and kept them working.

When I head out to the woodlot in the morning for a day of cutting I take a gallon of water and a single “sports” drink for morning hydration. Lunch time is normally a sandwich and two cans of beer… and I usually take two or three cold ones back out in the woodlot to supplement what water I have left (one is saved for the ride back to the shop). Working and sweating I don’t feel any “effect” from an occasional beer-break… and the tiny bit of alcohol keeps the body cool.

Now splitting, hauling and stacking require a larger ice chest… a whole lot larger!!!
If I could figure out how to keep it cold, I’d mount a quarter-barrel on the garden tractor!!!
There just ain't nothin' like ice-cold beer, on a hot sunny afternoon, to put a smile on a fella's lips!!!

 

[Rsquared]

Stacking sober is no way to go through life, son.

Point well taken....:msp_smile:

 

[ponyexpress976]

Is it possible to get a DUI for operating a whell barrow while intoxicated?

 

[Whitespider]

In Iowa it's not technically "DUI"... It's "OMVUI" (Operating a Motorized Vehicle Under the Influence).

Basically that means operating anything propelled by a motor (even electric) anywhere... Yes, that means you can be charged for driving your lawn tractor across your own yard while intoxicated by any controlled or illegal substance. A few years back a friend of mine was involved in an accident while riding dirt-bikes (non-street legal motorcycles) in a farm field. One of the riders was injured and an ambulance was called to the scene... and according to protocol, a deputy sheriff followed. My friend was charged and convicted of OMVUI.

I'm thinking you'd be safe with a wheelbarrow... unless it was motorized, like a DR PowerWagon!!!