The Old Dog splitting wood. I love doing it!
**Is splitting and stacking wood an inborn passion for men? **My educated guesstimate is yes! Sure, my survey sample is small, but man, is it conclusive.
Here goes: I love it, my son loves it, my brother loves it, my brother-in-law loves it, and most friends that I’ve asked either love it or would love to give it a try! Sure, my study isn’t peer reviewed but maybe after this article it will be. After all you’re my peers and you’re reviewing it, right?
I don’t want to get involved in any of the social construct arguments, so I freely admit the following: What do I know? Perhaps it’s inborn in women too? With a tiny sample size (my wife had a whack at it and found it fun but was not passionate enough to stay at it for hours at a time) I cannot draw any definitive conclusions!
What Have Others Said?
Henry Ford: “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
Henry David Thoreau: "Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least."
Albert Einstein: “People love chopping wood. In this activity, one immediately sees results”.
Those are some pretty good endorsements wouldn’t you agree?
What Do You Think?
- Do you love splitting and stacking wood?
- If you haven’t done it, would you like to give it a try?
- Is there a psychological or genetic reason for this seeming passion?
Until next time,
@kus-knee (The Old Dog)
People love to do various things for various reasons. Sometimes even without a reason. There is no need to find a reason behind everything. The love to do something must be felt. I love my Harris's hawk. I love to sleep with her. I love when she lay down on my neck, and we sleep together, cuddled. I love to walk in the nature with my Harris's hawk on my arm. I love to sit with my Harris's hawk on my arm. I cannot explain why I love it. I just feel the love every time, when I am together with my Harris's hawk, and that is enough to be happy in the life.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Your hawk sounds wonderful!
I'm so so happy to see you here again, dear Old Dog!!! I have to know it to my hubby @paolobeneforti ! ^_^
Just to know, splitting and stacking wood is an inborn passion for women too. :P When I lived in my small apartment on the mountain (before to meet my hubby and I was younger than now) I used to do it before the winter by myself as the same way my dad teached to me. It was hard, but it was also a great exercise for my body. Thinking about that time, my arms looked like the arms of a woodcutter, Now I don't need to do it, but I remember how relaxed I was after a couple of hours spent doing it. :D
Hi good strong one! Good to see you too! Thanks for sharing memories of your wood cutting days!
I also love everything you can do with wood. Unfortunately, I don´t have an axe (yet :P), but a set with little cutting knifes.
One day you will have an axe and I'm sure that you will swing it well!
We have wood out behind the garage. A fair amount of it. And yes, I have varying axes and one chain saw. The axe can be therapeutic and the wood provides warmth for the season.
Hi Roy, thanks for the visit! "Therapeutic" that's correct!
I used to chop wood when I was a kid and my parents had a fire. I'm lucky I didn't injure myself really. I would like a wood fire, but these days they seem to be considered unhealthy and polluting. I'll have to look again at the options to see if there are safe ways to do it.
How many chopping days to Xmas?
Hi Steve, thanks for your reply I really appreciate it. Yes safety is important.
My fireplace insert is clean burning. It has double combustion (any heated smoke is captured and re-burned giving off a blue flame inside the burner) and gives off less carbon than a decaying tree in the forest. Here in Switzerland we are also required to have a chimney filter. If the wood is properly dry you won't even see anything coming out of the chimney. It's amazing!
It doesn't surprise me that the Swiss have this sussed out. I need to see if we could retrofit that to our house. We have a few trees that we could harvest some wood from. Self-sufficiency matters more than ever, so we are also looking into solar power.
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Great observations!
Hello Oldie! ;)
Hi back! Good to see you're still having artful fun!
I love splitting wood...
with a hydraulic splitter lol.