pennsywoodburnr
supreme scrounger
A short background story is needed here to get you guys caught up on what happened to me today. After my buddy Joe and I dropped that pine back at the wife's church a month or so ago, Joe was talking with one of his co-workers who lives out by me and had a couple hardwoods get hung up against other trees during the whole Sandy thing last year. So last week I went and dropped both of the snagged trees and sectioned them up while I was there. While I was there, I noticed a monster oak that fell over (rootball and everything) on the other side of her property and I asked her what was up with that. She told me it was her neighbors tree and that it was already promised to another firewood scrounger. "Okay", I say to myself, "no big deal", and left it at that. So today I go back to load up some more rounds and I hear a saw fire up. Naturally curious, I walk over and greet the guy. Now when I was told this guy was coming to get the tree, I was thinking it would be somebody young, certainly not a 70+ year old retiree! But there he was, getting ready to dig into the oak......with a wildthing. So after talking for a couple minutes he fires up the poulan and starts cutting. He makes it in about 3 cuts before he turns off the saw and realizes something's up. So he takes it back to the side to start working on it, my saws meanwhile were still in the van. So after seeing him tinker with it for about 10 minutes, and then damn near dislocate his shoulder pull starting it, I offered to bust out my saws and help him. So I fire up the 5020 and got to it, letting him just watch as I cut. It took a while, but I got it all cut up for him. I even helped him load it up into his trailer. View attachment 303565 We ended up filling his entire trailer with rounds front to back, with another full trailers worth waiting for him when he comes back. I'm going back tomorrow to get more of my stuff and help him load up the rest of his. 70 years old. I still can't believe it.
