[TheForge] cutting wood

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

We` used to call it double acting firewood...gets you warm when you buck 
and split it, and then again when it burns.

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Mark: Even the year we bought two truck loads of birch logs, then bucked 
> split and stacked them ourselves a year's worth cost us about $2.25 a day 
> and two days labor for Deb and I though one friend, Joe spent a day helping 
> and saved us another day.
> 
> Sure it's work and it can be pretty darned hard physical labor. Doing hard 
> physical labor makes me feel good and there's nothing like being able to 
> look at the fruits of your labor. hand splitting firewood is good too, I 
> usually wait till winter when it's good and cold so the wood splits easy. 
> Birch at -20F will split cleanly with as few as two fast smacks with a 7lb 
> double bit on a 3/4 Boy's handle, that's an axe handle only 3/4 the length 
> of a standard one. If birch is warm, say 10F or warmer it's more of a fight 
> sometimes even requiring a maul or wedge and sledge. I've gotta say I love 
> wedge and sledge work. When you can spend a day making full power over the 
> top swings at the 1 1/2" x 2" end of a wedge without missing once, it's not 
> so scary swinging one at hot steel on the anvil.
> 
> Muscles feel good and I'm missing them right now but I'm looking forward to 
> working em back into condition. Joe says muscle makes him feel better too 
> and he makes his living working on computers so spending a few hours helping 
> us seems to be becoming a bit of a tradition with him.
> 
> Frosty the Lucky.
> -------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> It ain't real
> wrought iron is
> The Frostworks
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark A. Pesetsky" <pesetsky at princeton.edu>
> To: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored 
> by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] cutting wood
> 
> 
>> How much does it cost per day w/a traditional wood stove/fire place?
>> Pellets are much more efficient and more readily available. A battery
>> backup unit solves the power issue. Loading pellets is much easier than
>> hauling wood. Additionally, if one is cutting/splitting/stacking and
>> then transporting the wood into the house, isn't that a lot of work?
>> What does that translate into if one puts a dollar amount on their time?
>> Not to mention the fact of gas costs to run splitters and drive a truck
>> to get wood? Is the $7 a day then still to lofty to heat a house?
>>
>> Just simple questions that have come to mind. I pose them because I am
>> entertain the notion of purchasing a pellet stove to take the place of
>> my oil heater and have that become a backup unit for heating.
>>
>> Any other thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Mark
>>
> 
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