Thread: Gday Eh!

Hi Michael, welcome to the forum. Don't worry about your post being in the wrong sub forum. One of the mods will move it to the right one if need be.
Sounds like you are having quite a cool spell of it. Some pictures would be great.

Welcome Michael, rather you than me mate too bloody cold up there.

HH.

Welcome Michael,
Looking forwards to the wood gathering pics. Is winter the best time to cut and mill wood for you guys. At those tempretures does the sap freeze in the log.

Regards
John

Welcome just don't use that wood for the fire Michael

Could be a guide you telling us about timbers and how freezing effects its properties, moistour content etc

Welcome Micheal. Love to see some pics. What are you going to use to cut them down. (Diamond saw with de-icing fluid as the lubricant). Too damn cold for me.

The Bleeder

G'day Michael and welcome to th private but large sanctuary of the bipedal woodworms.
You must be a goose to live where it gets so bloody cold!
Been to Niagara Falls several times, summer and winter. Know what I prefer!!
Meanwhile in sunny Brisbane it is about 27*C which is over 80* F. Where would you rather be????

G'day Mick. We're not all afraid of the cold down here. Some of us really suffer when we get an Aussie summer full of 35+ degree days - not this summer though.

Nice part of the world you live in too. I can remember visiting Niagara Falls in early January with the family a few years back. We were staying at a motel on the US side but drove over the bridge to the Canadian side for lunch - and to get the stamp in our passports. A cold snap started rolling in just as we got over there and the temperature was dropping quickly. There was a big outside weather information sign there somewhere, and we were sitting there in a restaurant watching the temperature read-out dropping a degree every minute. In half an hour it had dropped around twenty degrees to something like -25.

That's really cool!

Looking forward to some posts & pics on your timber haul and projects.

Wayne

You're going outside when the temperature is minus what
My nether regions froze up just thinking about it
Do you use heated gloves etc for the timber getting

Thank you for the warm welcome. It is far easier to fell and skid logs when the ground is frozen and there is a good covering of snow. the logs do not have to be milled right away like in the summer time. Skidding logs across the snow is much more user friendly to the surrounding farm fields, and there is no dirt picked up in the bark from dragging the logs across forest floor or fields, which is a killer on band saw blades. As far as sawing in cold temperatures the blade must be tensioned right and sharp, other then that no problems. And all the limbs and off cuts go for firewood for the shop and summer camp fire pit.
As far as working in the cold, no problem you can actually work up a sweat, when you are in the bush and out of the wind. My job as railroad bridge foreman is down right cold especially working on a bridge in Northern Ontario in in -35c no shelter and a magnet for wind.
I will have questions to ask about the types of wood that you use and harvest in Australia and NZ. Really want to get down there for a tour and a visit, as my lovely wife has relatives that have a farm in NZ. Thanks Michael

Cayuga.

You were going ok and then just blew it. You mentioned the name that nobody in Os dares speak its name.

Welcome Cayuga,
It's a great forum and opinions fly faster and thicker than mosquitoes in your thaw. Some advice even works.
You can have the cold mate, I escaped from UK many years ago for that reason. Mind you we have had a few days of 42centigrade this summer. No place is perfect.

Jerry

Everyone is entitled to my opinion