Yep. I think whoever this was started out very wrong, not knowing what work was really like.I have to laugh, when I started out I had so called wanna be partners who never cut firewood, who had no idea what real work is. They lasted one day with me.
I started in 1976 just cutting for myself. Never sold a load.Or no idea on the equipment needed. When I started cutting wood for myself with just a saw and a pickup truck, I thought I could turn a few bucks and sell a few pick up loads of rounds to a local firewood business. Man was I way off on the time and equipment needed for my own supply much less trying to make a buck.
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Then you get stuck several times and a Skidder goes by your truck while you are cutting, runs over the end of a 5 inch cut down gum and it flips up and turns in mid air and lands across the hood of you truck.I remember an old cartoon that calculated the cost savings for having a wood stove for the first year.
It included costs for the price of electricity and fuel oil saved, compared to the costs of:
- buying the wood stove
- installation
- an axe
- a chain saw
- a wood splitter
- fuel
Then in added in:
- trip(s) to the emergency room
- 4-wheel drive pickup truck and insurance
- towing
- divorce . . .
Philbert
Yes we must enjoy it to do it.I understand the economics of tool buying in the sense of how long it will pay for it self. Sometimes you gotta purchase a tool or equipment just because it will make the task more enjoyable or save time even if it never pays for itself. With the price of natural gas, I could never “save money” by burning wood. Especially if I factor in the time spent on wood, could be spent on making me money doing something else. I mainly cut and burn wood cause I enjoy it.
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When you get that tractor, make sure you DO NOT LEAVE THAT DEALERSHIP UNLESS IT HAS A FRONT END LOADER ON IT. You'll never regret the extra cost it adds and you'll wish someone would create a time machine so you can go back in time and put your foot in your own @ss for not doing it sooner.Yes we must enjoy it to do it.
Just think of all the time put in from sawing to the stove. We really don't save nothing money wise.
I've always wanted a 30 some HP tractor, 4 wheel drive and hydrostatic. Next year my wife and I will buy a new Kubota.
We can in no way justify the cost, but we are 64 and 67 and we only live once. I don't want to die wishing I had bought one.
Clint
ThanksWhen you get that tractor, make sure you DO NOT LEAVE THAT DEALERSHIP UNLESS IT HAS A FRONT END LOADER ON IT. You'll never regret the extra cost it adds and you'll wish someone would create a time machine so you can go back in time and put your foot in your own @ss for not doing it sooner.
I replied just in case you dont have to access to one in the past so or not sure what you are missing.
Thanks for the reply.Awesome! I had four oaks die on my hill behind my house this year. I helped my girlfriends son work on his truck so he dragged them down the hill for me. Easier for him since he is 17 and six foot eight and about 270 lbs.
Very true. I don't sell anyhow, but have been known to give a load to older folks.This thread should be sent out to all the callers that think "the firewood in the tree and be sold by you and will surely pay for the cost of taking the tree down so lets make a fair swap."
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Yes we must enjoy it to do it.
Just think of all the time put in from sawing to the stove. We really don't save nothing money wise.
I've always wanted a 30 some HP tractor, 4 wheel drive and hydrostatic. Next year my wife and I will buy a new Kubota.
We can in no way justify the cost, but we are 64 and 67 and we only live once. I don't want to die wishing I had bought one.
Clint
That's wonderful. I have always been inspired by older folks.I check some of it off to what it would cost for a gym membership to keep me in shape and good condition. I'm 85 and I'm sure I wouildn't be here were it not for cutting/splitting/stacking/burning. It is a year around physical fitness program.
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