Hard At Work Today
By koopharper
@koopharper (7601)
Canada
October 30, 2022 10:17am CST
Cutting wood for winter and doing clean up on the mess Hurricane Fiona made this fall. I've got permissions for cutting on a bunch of properties in and around our hunt camp home. I only actually lost four trees on my own piece of dirt. Most of the other wooded properties fared a lot worse. I will be in off and on to rest (I'm getting a little old for this) and will check in throughout the day here.
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@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
31 Oct 22
@jstory07 I do whittle quite a bit but I haven't advanced past a beginners whittling kit.
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@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
30 Oct 22
It's a massive amount of hard work. We were lucky in our little community. There were trees down by the hundreds but no damage to buildings. One of the cottages up the road had a tree on the roof and another small one on his shed. There were some close calls though. I lost three mature white spruce and my favourite tamarack.
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@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
31 Oct 22
@TheHorse I'd have to find some local luthiers. There is no lack of Spruce in this country though.
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@TheHorse (226323)
• Walnut Creek, California
31 Oct 22
@koopharper Sell the Spruce to guitar manufacturer. Spruce tops make a guitar resonate better than laminate tops. There's Martin guitars in Nazareth Penn., and Larrivee guitars over in (I think) Vancouver BC.
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and what wood are they?@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
30 Oct 22
Most of the chopped wood will heat our small hunt camp home. A few of the most interesting pieces will end up on my wood lathe. The bulk of the wood that got knocked over was White Spruce, Eastern Hemlock, and Quaking Aspen.
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@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
31 Oct 22
My wife keeps telling me to take it easy but I find that almost impossible.
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@RebeccasFarm (94525)
• Arvada, Colorado
31 Oct 22
@koopharper Never, it would be boring I understand
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@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
31 Oct 22
I'm pretty close to having enough in my three main stockpiles. The goal is to finish the third one by the end of November. I might already have enough cut out in the bush but I won't know until I've finished hauling it all in. Even with good weather, that'll take me all this week after work.
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@jstory07 (143887)
• Roseburg, Oregon
31 Oct 22
@koopharper That is a lot of wood. But you do need to stay warm all winter.
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@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
31 Oct 22
My wife took the picture. I was trying for the unhinged lunatic look. I was glad I didn't lose many trees especially compared to my neighbours.
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@CarolDM (203410)
• Nashville, Tennessee
31 Oct 22
@koopharper Success on the unhinged lunatic look.
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@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
7 Nov 22
Actually yes. The spot where I'm cutting in the picture was mostly Quaking Aspen which is an interesting type of tree but the wood isn't strong, doesn't turn well, and isn't even very good firewood but there were a couple of trees in that grove that were excellent on all counts. I cut and saved an Apple tree log and two Wild Cherry logs. They are big enough for turning bowls and I will likely get a lot of nice projects once the wood has dried.
@JudyEv (352960)
• Rockingham, Australia
31 Oct 22
We used to enjoy going out and getting wood for the winter but towards the end it was becoming much more like hard work and not much pleasure so I know how you feel.
@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
31 Oct 22
Chainsaw work has some serious hazards so I do need to be careful.
