Ouch! Time to invest in some cut resistance gloves! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I need some chainmail gloves. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Well, I got a litte tipsy last night, and decided that I was going to sleep off my beers and get up bright and early to take the Dogfather back to the woods. That makes 3 days in a row. 06:30 and Diceman is out of bed, out the door at 06:38.



"Goodmorning, beautiful Montana woods, I am here to eat your trees" said the Dogfather.



A quick warmup...



Rained last night, so some of this stuff was pretty wet. Dogfather took a huge bite in to this log. Never had a problem w/ the DF "hanging up," but due to the wetness of this chunk of wood, the DF burried itself so deep in one chop, that I was able to lift it up off the ground.



Which is much more impressive once you see how big of a piece of wood we're talking about:



Then I found a pretty freshly fallen Pine, and took off a workable sized piece.



OK, maybe a little too thick for my first try at big batoning...



Lets take another piece a few feet up the trunk.



OK, much better.



Getting started...



Cutting it down a little shorter...

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OK - Lets do this!!

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Another good day of chopping and batoning...
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And I'm even getting through the finish on the edge now!
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All before most of the world is even awake...
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I need some chainmail gloves.