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:(:D


cha0s

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

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Save da trees !

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 :D

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

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Yeah, I've never understood that one.

I'm freezing my arse 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 arse off and the last thing I want is a roaring log fire.

:D

Cheers

Ian

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

Jack,

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

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]

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

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

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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.

LOL @ Stephen Read! :D

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).

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

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

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!:D