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Post by spence on Oct 18, 2022 8:25:41 GMT -7
Over the last 2-3 weeks I’ve been working up some firewood. I can’t work at it as hard or as long as I used to, but I still enjoy it as much. There’s something about a session of splitting it using sledge hammer and wedges which I find very satisfying. It’s an old fashioned activity, and distracts me nicely from the wacky modern world I find so unpleasant these days. I’ve always looked forward to the job every fall, but never expected to be able to handle it at the age of 89. Doing simple productive labor has always been therapeutic for me, and I frequently can enjoy it twice, as with this wood, once while doing the spitting, the second time when I’m sitting snug and warm by the fire, sipping on a cup of gunpowder tea and listening to the winter wind moan outside the door.   Spence |
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Post by hawkeyes on Oct 18, 2022 11:18:17 GMT -7
Nothing better than a good session of splitting. Even with my knee injury I've managed the riggers of splitting by hand. I was offered the use of a log splitter to finish the seasons stash but turned the service down. There is just something therapeutic and relaxing about splitting by hand that no modern device can tap into.
I'll never forget my dad and uncles trying to convince grandpa into a splitter... He was against it 100% and split/ heated with wood until passing. Absolutely no better heat nor satisfying feeling than you just described.
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Post by brokennock on Oct 18, 2022 15:31:58 GMT -7
God bless you Spence.
You truly are a national treasure.
We need more 89 year olds like you, and more kids spending quality time with them.
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Post by Joe on Oct 18, 2022 17:00:11 GMT -7
I have the bulk of my wood up for the season, just have about at full cord left to split. Good thing too, it turn cold fast this year. Gave up splitting by hand back in 1980. A woodsplitter struggles to split most of what I cut. Some so bad we have to saw it in half or quarters first. I fully understand your pleasure of hand splitting though, it very much is if you have the right wood for it, and a young body.
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