zogger
Tree Freak
Well, I didnt start cutting with a chainsaw until 1970..but I remember quite clearly that people who HAD better equipment, used it. Ya, a lot of guys were one saw, one pickup cutters, but I worked with people who used tractors, crawlers, home made splitters, front end loaders, and assorted whatnot.
Same back then as it is today.
If you want to go older school, do what I did for five winters, all manual powered, bowsaw, axe, drag wood out by hand. Oh, also lived no electricity, no running water during that time frame, and grew most of my own food. Thats much closer to true old fashioned.
Working for other people, back then, I used fuel burning equipment, for myself, all me powered. It was fun and surprisingly not much work once I got used to it. Firewood was a year round process, never wasted a day, walking back to cabin (walked or rode my bicycle, no motor vehicle, although sometimes I would hitch a ride), I would drag another branch home. That was mixed with purpose cut. I had no lights of any note besides home made candles, so I just learned to work in the dark, including going to woods, felling, human skidder action to get it out, bucking and splitting. Anyway, I consider that, plus one full year and change just hiking and foraging, just walking and exploring and learning about nature, to be my college education... Now that got to be hard, Ill admit to more than a few pretty scary situations as in freezing or starving, etc., permanent living situations and gardening and a better shelter is MUCH easier to deal with.
Steel tools rock, and the most important thing for survival the old fashioned way is clean potable water availability..my opinion...you can deal with anything else, but no clean water that is easy to get, you are gonna be going down, and fast.
If you are using gas and diesel powered equipment, you arent really old fashioned. To me, old fashioned is at least early 1800s style living, and no steam power or elctricity or telegraph, just human power, animal power, and some iron and steel tools. Anything newer, is just modern tech of various cost or worth, but still modern.. And if it is just a chainsaw and truck and however you split, thats just low budget, but not really old fashioned.
Right now, myself, I am low budget, cut with a gas saw (and sometimes my battery electric, and yes own a lot of saws now), but split by hand. Not old fashioned, just what I can afford myself or borrow in good conscious and take as best care of borrowed gear as possible (getting away from borrowing real soon now) Haul out with tractor currently, but soon with my own truck. I am also 40 years and 12 blown spinal disks older...I could still do it all by hand, just I know it would be a lot harder now.
Same back then as it is today.
If you want to go older school, do what I did for five winters, all manual powered, bowsaw, axe, drag wood out by hand. Oh, also lived no electricity, no running water during that time frame, and grew most of my own food. Thats much closer to true old fashioned.
Working for other people, back then, I used fuel burning equipment, for myself, all me powered. It was fun and surprisingly not much work once I got used to it. Firewood was a year round process, never wasted a day, walking back to cabin (walked or rode my bicycle, no motor vehicle, although sometimes I would hitch a ride), I would drag another branch home. That was mixed with purpose cut. I had no lights of any note besides home made candles, so I just learned to work in the dark, including going to woods, felling, human skidder action to get it out, bucking and splitting. Anyway, I consider that, plus one full year and change just hiking and foraging, just walking and exploring and learning about nature, to be my college education... Now that got to be hard, Ill admit to more than a few pretty scary situations as in freezing or starving, etc., permanent living situations and gardening and a better shelter is MUCH easier to deal with.
Steel tools rock, and the most important thing for survival the old fashioned way is clean potable water availability..my opinion...you can deal with anything else, but no clean water that is easy to get, you are gonna be going down, and fast.
If you are using gas and diesel powered equipment, you arent really old fashioned. To me, old fashioned is at least early 1800s style living, and no steam power or elctricity or telegraph, just human power, animal power, and some iron and steel tools. Anything newer, is just modern tech of various cost or worth, but still modern.. And if it is just a chainsaw and truck and however you split, thats just low budget, but not really old fashioned.
Right now, myself, I am low budget, cut with a gas saw (and sometimes my battery electric, and yes own a lot of saws now), but split by hand. Not old fashioned, just what I can afford myself or borrow in good conscious and take as best care of borrowed gear as possible (getting away from borrowing real soon now) Haul out with tractor currently, but soon with my own truck. I am also 40 years and 12 blown spinal disks older...I could still do it all by hand, just I know it would be a lot harder now.