[AT] Firewood cutting

[Richard Strobel]

Wow...very nice

RickinMt



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Goff" <alfg at sasktel.net>
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Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Firewood cutting


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 4:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Firewood cutting
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>
> > Ralph,
> > Maybe the reason one hasn't heard of accidents (I haven't either) is
> > those men knew the dangers and used great care around the operating 
> > blade.
> > In those days the firewood came from trimming around the edges of the
> > fields.  I barely remember my grandpa, a great uncle and a couple others
> > doing that trimming every winter and piling the cut firewood in a fresh
> > pile in the woodshed for use the next winter.
> > David
> > NW NC
>
> Big difference in today's firewood requirements here anyway. In the old 
> days
> that wood stove was used for cooking 365 days a year plus some wood for 
> the
> big furnace in the basement to supplement the coal. Days were spent with 
> the
> axe cutting logs down and hauling them home. My Dad (and grandfather 
> before
> him) did this part by himself including loading and hauling the logs home 
> by
> sleigh and horses. On the plus side they never had to go far to find
> firewood as the bushes grew up around here. Dry years produced plenty of
> deadfall which was easier picking.
> Neighbours would get together for a wood cutting "bee" and spend the day
> cutting a huge pile of logs into blocks. I can still remember them from 
> the
> 1960s but around that time oil heat and electric stoves were taking over
> from wood.
> At my brother's the firewood is only supplemental heat for the house and 
> the
> modern airtight stoves are a lot more efficient at producing heat without
> sending most of it up the chimney. I've probably already showed this pic 
> of
> my Uncle and his yearlly firewood supply. This was in "modern times", late
> nineties as he never did give up his wood stove. More than a days work for
> the three of us to make that wood pile.
> http://hotimg23.fotki.com/p/a/142_165/24_199/Donaldwoodpile-vi.jpg
>
> Ralph in Sask.
>
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