Newby Brit needing advice

[andysheffield]

> that my neighbour has kindly felled for me

It is great to have good neighbors 

My neighbour is fantastic, he's also the most gungho nutter in the village hence I was asking for advice from you guys as he wears a flat cap as PPE, that's it.  I'm no shriking violet, 9 years in the Parachute Regiment but one thing that's taught me is respect a new tool you have not used and get training and advice on using it, whether it is a GPMG or a chainsaw.  My neighbour is going to give me some practical training tommorow prior to me being let loose so with a bit of luck I'll have the hawthornes bucked and split by sundown.

[andysheffield]

*DanG I enjoyed that!  Best fun you can have with your clothes on, and my body is still in one piece.  Loved the sawing and the sheer noise and power of the saw, but have to say splitting was so much fun...put my mind in a very relaxed state and so satisfying when the log cleaves and blasts appart.

Andy has a big [I have typed a profane word that is automatically changed by the forum censored words program I should know better]-eating grin tonight

I think I'm an addict!

[Timburr]

Yes, once we get that addiction to wood fibre, there's no known cure to man or beast

Occasionally, when I have isolated parcels of firewood to hand split, I find it's a very theraputic way of venting the spleen.  All anxieties in life just wane and wither away.  Take that Fred!  Here's one for you taxman!  Take that *&<%#^............    and the added bonus is, split firewood.

Now that your'e a budding chainsawyer, be aware of complacency.  I've been using a chainsaw for many a year and they still scare the DanG scrapola out of me!

[andysheffield]

Thanks for the advice Dan, I'm on a newbie high now but fully seized of the fact that this is the most potentially lethal to me tool I've ever handled (GPMG's are very bad news for the other fella but handled right present no threat to the trained machine gunner who is aiming it at the other fella)

I can't describe the buzz I've got from today..you probably know from when you first took up the saw and maul..but I'm one happy (but safety concious) camper

[WDH]

AndyS,

Several people have told me that I need to get a hydraulic firewood splitter.  However, I agree with you and Timburr and others.  There is something about splitting firewood with an axe or maul with your own bare hands.  Makes me feel good (and tired, which is not a bad thing) .

[leweee]

Something primal bout hand splitting wood.

[WDH]

It makes food taste better .