Fall Work

rusty6 · Oct 20, 2020

Light snow falling here this morning and temp in the 20s. Reminded me of one of the jobs we used to help my uncles with. Cutting up the poplar firewood logs into stove lengths. Right up to the end they kept a wood stove for cooking and the main source of heat in the house. There was usually at least three of us, sometimes 4. We didn't always finish in a day but tomorrow was another day. At the end there was a formidable pile of wood ready for the stove.
In this photo we were either just setting up or just shutting down from a day's sawing as my uncle is on the AR tractor while Pete holds the drive belt.

Bruce from Can. · Oct 20, 2020

My uncle was raised in Saskatchewan, married my
aunt in Ontario and worked out installing furnaces ,
water pressure systems and bathrooms during the
50’s and 60’s , for the local hardware store. No
papers required in those days to do this work, just
knowledge. He installed a bathroom and furnace for
himself, and also for my mom and dad, but dad had
to have a wood/oil combination furnace. Uncle said
at .14 cents a gallon for furnace oil, he could earn
enough money in one hour to heat his house for
two days. And there was no way you could cut
enough wood in one hour to do the same. So he
wouldn’t bother with wood anymore. My dad cut
wood right to the end at 84.

Richard G. · Oct 20, 2020

We did that for Grandma until 1960 when she got an electric stove.
Used a 49 JD A.
I still have the cut off saw.
Sure miss those biscuits she cooked back then with the wood cook stove.
Of course her electric stove biscuits were great also.
Richard in NW SC

rusty6 · Oct 20, 2020

I thought I better post an "after" photo showing the finished pile of firewood and my uncle. This was in year 2000. We only got to do it one more year as my uncle
died in July of 02.

Blackhole49 · Oct 21, 2020

Now that's what I call a "pile of wood".

spacechem · Oct 24, 2020

"The man who cuts his own wood warms himself twice."

c.oawright · Oct 24, 2020

(quoted from post at 13:23:31 10/20/20) We did that for Grandma until 1960 when she got an electric stove.
Used a 49 JD A.
I still have the cut off saw.
Sure miss those biscuits she cooked back then with the wood cook stove.
Of course her electric stove biscuits were great also.
Richard in NW SC

Looking back I still think it is amazing how my Grandma could control the heat on that wood stove and make perfect biscuits every morning. I would like to have one of them this morning.
Funny thing when they put in the electric stove she wouldn't use it at first. She said it was evil. It took her a few years to warm up to it.

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