Curlycherry1
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Cold has never stopped me. When I was putting myself through school cutting wood during breaks I could not let the cold stop me so I was in it at every break. My record was about 20 below and it was that way for a solid week. I just left my car running with the heater on so I could get out of it once in a while. I was just dropping and blocking back then so it was easy to keep moving the keep warm.
Deep snow was a bigger problem for me. I was in the CNY snow belt region and 1977 was a bad year. We had over 5' of standing snow in the woods. I was cutting on snow shoes for a lot of the work which is dangerous and hard. In the spring I had to cut all the stumps down lower to the ground and I got as many and 2-18" pieces off of some of the stumps.
Next to where I was cutting they were logging 100 acres that year that had to be out by spring due to the wetness of the land. They had two dozers in there with wide tracks moving snow around all day long and then letting the ground harden before the would drop and skid the logs out. The forester said the idiots that bid on the job never thought about the work that would be needed despite the window of time they were given in the contract.
Deep snow was a bigger problem for me. I was in the CNY snow belt region and 1977 was a bad year. We had over 5' of standing snow in the woods. I was cutting on snow shoes for a lot of the work which is dangerous and hard. In the spring I had to cut all the stumps down lower to the ground and I got as many and 2-18" pieces off of some of the stumps.
Next to where I was cutting they were logging 100 acres that year that had to be out by spring due to the wetness of the land. They had two dozers in there with wide tracks moving snow around all day long and then letting the ground harden before the would drop and skid the logs out. The forester said the idiots that bid on the job never thought about the work that would be needed despite the window of time they were given in the contract.