Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: H Rhodes on June 30, 2012, 03:52:09 pm
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I am learning a lesson about letting my stave supply run low in the middle of a heat wave.... I spent the last few days gathering wood - some white oak and winged elm... It was 104 degrees during the splitting and debarking of this bad boy. My wife says that I need mental help. Who cares? this one is gonna make a good one. 8)
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The bark should come off both easily this time of the year but splitting elm is a b*tch any time of year. d;^)
We haven't hit 100 yet but it has been 97. When we moved here 22 years ago it never(I mean never) got over 85. Unless I have to work I don't over stress myself in high temp weather and even at work(landscape) my work rate goes way down.
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It has been terribly dry here and was over a hundred by lunch time.... The bark did come off the oak really easily, but the elm seemed to be stuck more than I expected.... a symptom of the lack of rain? I have to work real slow, so that I don't melt - drinking water by the gallon!
I know what you mean about the elm... I saw a kerf early on and let it dry around that, on the big ones. The smaller trees, I just split them on the table saw.
It was so hot the other afternoon that when I got home from work, I didn't hear a bird, cicada, locust, cricket... nothing.... sounded like nerve gas had been used on my little farm... I guess it's too hot for anything to move or make a noise. My garden looks like November..... :(
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I was in the same boat as you a couple of years ago when I let my stave supply get too low in the middle of summertime. It really sucks splittin wood in 100 degree temps. I specifically remember my wife coming outside while I was in the middle of splittin a big black locust log and all she had to say was "What the hell is wrong with you"? ;)
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Ha! yep, i know what you mean. The look she gave me made me question my own sanity there for a minute...