Favorite Phrases

[Ontario_Logger]

i work for a freind in the summer and the companys name is "wood eh!"

around here if the we just say punky for crap firewood

 

[TreePointer]

I always called it crapwood. Les Stroud introduced me to the term punky.

 

[Steve NW WI]

My favorite saying is "We ain't building pianos" - use it every time someone gets just a little too anal retentive over something that will work just fine, but is not as exact or as pretty as it could be.

I am not a full blown wood 'ho, but I believe I am degrading into one. Besides my own woods, I have wood blocked up at 3 different places waiting to be hauled home. Maybe just a wood tramp at this point?

 

[treevet]

Lots of nervous trees around here. With the economy down and no longer the flush and fast money of the hurricane ....and the aftermath of a drunken sailor spending spree on mass new equipment....lots of "tree experts" faced with a new month's equipment payment due....call back to the client, "maybe that old hackberry is not as stable over your house as I thought few months ago".

That would a wood related money whore.

 

[sdt7618]

We ain't building pianos.... sound like me to the wife when the "honey do's list get attacked. Often she will expect same or better finish to joiner type works that a cabinet maker would give.... and I ain't even a joiner!

 

[Wood Doctor]

Good Old Elm

My favorite of them all is piss elm.

After you find a "free" tree and cut the big rounds to length, you next try to split them. After your splitting maul bounces off 5 or 6 times, you end up throwing it all in a ditch and say, "Piss on it." :spam:

 

[woodbooga]

All along I figured you were known for clearing a nose full of sticky sawdust then displaying it for the rest of us.

You just about summed up the intellectual value of my posts. aaahhhhhhhh-CHOOOO! Excuse me for a quick second while I find something to wipe my hands on

 

[sdt7618]

You just about summed up the intellectual value of my posts. aaahhhhhhhh-CHOOOO! Excuse me for a quick second while I find something to wipe my hands on

hey no swine flu here pls!

 

[KD57]

My favorite of them all is piss elm.

After you find a "free" tree and cut the big rounds to length, you next try to split them. After your splitting maul bounces off 5 or 6 times, you end up throwing it all in a ditch and say, "Piss on it." :spam:

Yep, another term old farmers call it, but here they don't say 'elm' they say it like 'elum'.

 

[woodbooga]

hey no swine flu here pls!

No sir. Let us be hygenic. Since we're having fun with usernames, attached is a sure cure for those pesky SDT's.

 

[avalancher]

Another term that I learned just last night from an old guy who has been sawing more years than I have been alive.
"what kind of tree is that Peebo?"
"Thats a leaverite tree"
"What the bleep,a leaverite?"
"Yep, leave her right there."

Dont ask me why his name is Peebo,when I asked him that years ago he just got a very evil grin on his face.I left it alone.I had work to do, and not a lot of time to hear an hour long story that was sure to follow....

 

[sdt7618]

No sir. Let us be hygenic. Since we're having fun with usernames, attached is a sure cure for those pesky SDT's.

Yeah I gotta watch how I type my Initials, would hate to get an STD!

 

[treevet]

One of my fav phrases to a slacker is "get to work slacker, does your husband do tree work?"

 

[treevet]

couple of ones we use in the tree biz when just dropping a tree and leaving it are;

smash and dash

slam and scram

 

[Wood Doctor]

Elm strikes again.

Yep, another term old farmers call it, but here they don't say 'elm' they say it like 'elum'.

Here's another one of my own favorite expressions:

"Elm has sold more power logsplitters than any other species."

 

[treevet]

no doubt about that

ps. in truth, I just now made up those 2 expressions I posted above. sorry

 

[woodbooga]

Surprised this hasn't come up yet:

Firewood heats you 7 to 8 times

-When you fell it
-When you buck it
-When you split it
-When you stack it outdoors
-(optional for those of us fortunate to have an attached barn)When you bring your wood in
-When you bring it from the barn to the stove
-When you enjoy the fruits of your labor in a snug house pan-frying some potatoes on the stovetop

Boy, a few beads of perspiration formed on my forehead just thinking about it!

 

[Wood Doctor]

Surprised this hasn't come up yet:

Firewood heats you 7 to 8 times

-When you fell it
-When you buck it
-When you split it
-When you stack it outdoors
-(optional for those of us fortunate to have an attached barn)When you bring your wood in
-When you bring it from the barn to the stove
-When you enjoy the fruits of your labor in a snug house pan-frying some potatoes on the stovetop

Boy, a few beads of perspiration formed on my forehead just thinking about it!

Add two more:

-When you load it onto the truck
-When you unload it from the truck

 

[woodbooga]

Add two more:

-When you load it onto the truck
-When you unload it from the truck

Forgot about those two. Definitely the former. Gravity helps out a lot with the latter.

Thanks!

 

[Wife'nHubby]

From another list I am on:

Newbie asks: "How Do I Stack Wood"

Answer: "So a mouse can run through it but a cat can't chase it."

Shari