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barebo:
Badger beat me to it - the wood poor would be bowyers would love to have a log like that!

If you don't have a timber lot, buying quality staves can get pricey. Board bows can be an alternative, and darned good bows come from boards, but there is something almost sterile comparing a board to a bark covered split from a log. I've been fortunate to have a few friends with acreage that took bows in trade for trees.
Another lucky day was when the power company was clearing high tension access and let me grab some decent stock.

It's plenty cold here in central NY state and up in your neck of the country I'm sure it colder. You can't beat wood heat to warm your bones, so you gotta keep your chains sharp.

jeffp51:

--- Quote from: Marc St Louis on January 18, 2018, 07:22:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: jeffp51 on January 18, 2018, 05:39:09 pm ---I find that the exercise I get with my draw knife keeps me as warm as a fire would.  just sayin. . . .

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I'll try and run that one by my wife and say it was your idea  :)

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Well I suppose you can try and tell her if she is cold, she should just work harder. but even if you say it was someone else's idea, I bet it doesn't turn out well for you.  Let me know how that doghouse feels. (S)

upstatenybowyer:
I'm sitting on a sugarbush myself and often find myself in the same dilemma. When it comes to sugar maples I go by the following order of importance...

1) heat  (S)
2) syrup  -C-
3) bows  (-S

BowEd:
I have the same dillema with hickory here.I'm in the Pat M outlook on an issue as this.I try to burn mostly dead standing snags or storm broken trees.A short section of 6' would'nt heat you very long but a bow would last longer.Especially if plenty more wood was there available for firewood.

DuBois:
since starting bow making I have gotten a lot of firewood from grabbing "bow wood" when I could and then on second inspection, it was not really that good so it went in the cut pile. (Did help to justify all my excursions to the wife)
"Look at all the firewood I collected honey."

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