chaos.

Isnt it theraputic to cut wood with an axe? I can just batter wood with an axe for ages and not get bored! I want to go and cut another tree down


cha0s

StickyMicky

try hacking sumbodys leg off, you will get bored with running from the police after a while

corradoboy

Save da trees !

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

You cutting down trees with an axe?

Or splitting logs?

Log splitting is well worthwhile and a good work out. Chainsawing is good fun and infact its destumping with an axe/spade that is the best & most satisfying

Then, burning the wood on a nice open fire with a beer & knowing that its your hard work that put it there

IWatkins

Yeah, I've never understood that one.

I'm freezing my **** off in this house (Victorian, open fires, no central heating apart from some weedy night storage heaters).

So before dark I spend an hour chopping firewood, lugging it into the house, making the fires etc.

I'm then sweating my **** off and the last thing I want is a roaring log fire.



Cheers

Ian

JackClark

This is my first year with 'proper' heating, I don't half miss chopping wood. Might chop some for sake of it.

IWatkins

Jack,

Pop round anytime. I've got about a ton of 9 inch logs that need splitting.

As an aside, I'm assuming you now have now have nice gas fired central heating, double glazing etc. ? Do you find you feel more lethargic and get more colds all sealed up in a nice cosy house ?

I only ask because my sister in the past six months has every cold that goes around and she blames their nice warm, non-drafty new house.

Cheers

Ian

[Edited by IWatkins - 12/19/2003 12:37:28 AM]

MARK MORRIS

my mates got one in the boot of his car, makes a change from a baseball bat
mark

Dave P

open fires... can't beat them!!!

Stephen Read

JackClark

Got posh central heating - fitted by Mog off of here - but still have victorian windows so it's not stuffy. Agree though, if you want to wake up quick sharp you can't beat living in an igloo.

Brendan Hughes

LOL @ Stephen Read!

Puff, next time I have a stump, I'll save it for you mate; got tennis elbow from taking out a 20-yr-old leylandii stump with no petrol power in my little place in Reigate. Given my parents' woodland, I must have dug out over 50 stumps in the last six years, and I'm not talking the stuff with 3-in trunks either. Still, at least we have a tractor to make the final tug (got to spend an hour going round and cutting the main roots before it will even budge though).

Lord Of The Bling...

has anyone on ere` used a chainsaw....

any real man has to do it once in their life!!!

Brendan Hughes

Are you kidding? Meself and three friends have T-shirts declaring "Agent Orange - Manual Defoliant Systems Inc", in the Stihl font!
Axes are OK, chainsaws are OK - but clearing a plot 100ftx100ft of dense rhododendron with a sharpened billhook - now THAT is legalised violence!