Women and wood cutting?

Gloomendoom

carefullycautious wrote: »

Why don't you have a chat to a local woodcutter who may be able to show you the correct way to use an axe. Or trade skills with someone, eg. Find big hunk of man strip down to waist watch him cut wood whilst you make homemade apple pies in exchange

Whoops sorry just slipped into a fantasy there :rotfl:

It's not that far into the realms of fantasy. That's effectively what Mrs G does. Damned good pies they are too.

G_M

meanbean wrote: »

Hi,

Do any women out there cut their own wood for woodburners, and if so how? Does anyone use a chainsaw or splitting maul, and if so, which is easier/safer? Are there any other options?

I'm fed up with buying wood at high prices or depending on various men to help me get wood for my burner, and am thinking I need to man up and try it myself. Any advice appreciated.

Does no one else react like me to this post?

Back through the 60s,70, 80s women fought a series of battles to achieve near equality with men.

Pay; legal protection from domestic violence; protection from workplace harassment; equality of opportunity in job applications; etc etc

Not to mention transforming men into 'New Men', helping out in the home, cooking, child-caring etc

Well - it works both ways! Woman can cut wood just as well as men. What matters is whether you have a) the skill and b) the strength, not what gender you are.

Some men can cut wood, some can't. Some women can cut wood, some can't.

tori.k

G_M wrote: »

Does no one else react like me to this post?

Back through the 60s,70, 80s women fought a series of battles to achieve near equality with men.

Pay; legal protection from domestic violence; protection from workplace harassment; equality of opportunity in job applications; etc etc

Not to mention transforming men into 'New Men', helping out in the home, cooking, child-caring etc

Well - it works both ways! Woman can cut wood just as well as men. What matters is whether you have a) the skill and b) the strength, not what gender you are.

Some men can cut wood, some can't. Some women can cut wood, some can't.

Whats got you riled up about the OP's post? she only asked about options about cutting her own wood? read's to me a self reliance question not a gender issue. she's not asking can she do it but how.

G_M

tori.k wrote: »

Whats got you riled up about the OP's post? she only asked about options about cutting her own wood? read's to me a self reliance question not a gender issue. she's not asking can she do it but how.

The post title?

The first sentence?

No- not riled. It's no big deal. I just don't see the relevance.

As you say, the Q is about wood chopping options/techniques, hence the reference to women is unnecessary irrelevant.

But it's thoughtless statements like this that have historically reinforced sterotypes. Like constantly referring to 'n*ggers' in the 60s which reinforced racist stereotypes, even when used non-aggressively in everyday conversation.

OK - I'll get off my high horse now. Not really relevant here....!

shegar

Ive carted 2 trailer loads of wood home this year, they were all in 5 foot lenghts , so my son chainsawed them for me , and I will split them with a axe on my chopping block, a bit at a time , I use to use a chainsaw , but Im not fit enough now for it................. I Love getting outside doing a bit of hard work though .........

Gloomendoom

G_M wrote: »

As you say, the Q is about wood chopping options/techniques, hence the reference to women is unnecessary irrelevant.

Not really. Like it or lump it, generally, woman tend to have less physical strength than men.

As I interpreted the OP, she was asking, when wood cutting, are there different techniques or tools that could be used that are better suited to the average female's physique.

highrisklowreturn

G_M wrote: »

Does no one else react like me to this post?

Back through the 60s,70, 80s women fought a series of battles to achieve near equality with men.

Pay; legal protection from domestic violence; protection from workplace harassment; equality of opportunity in job applications; etc etc

Not to mention transforming men into 'New Men', helping out in the home, cooking, child-caring etc

Well - it works both ways! Woman can cut wood just as well as men. What matters is whether you have a) the skill and b) the strength, not what gender you are.

Some men can cut wood, some can't. Some women can cut wood, some can't.

What a lot of rubbish. Can you refrain from posting such nonsense in the future and keep such left wing man hating rubbish off this board please?

Men are superior and are commanded by the creator to repress women - they shouldn't be let near wood, unless they can cut it with a rolling pin and apron.

Macca83_2

My mum has an electric log splitter thing for her wood burning stove. It's a safe non physical way of splitting larger logs into something that the wood burner can manage.

But really we need a point of reference for your question. Are you talking about starting with a tree and providing yourself with a supply of logs. Which would involve proper planning before you take it down and a dry place to store? Or are you taking about getting a supply of wood that needs made into manageabl chunks?

Mojisola

meanbean wrote: »

I have a cheap supply of felled wood and room for storing whilst the wood seasons. Am pretty decent with physical work. Built my own log store out of salvaged pallets. Bought a house that had been left to ruin and renovated it myself. But electric saws scare me. I used my own circular saw when replacing floor joists but its potential to go awry worried me immensely. Will look up a reciprocating saw as I've not heard about them.

If you've done all that, managing your own logs shouldn't be a problem. Check your local area and see if anyone does chainsaw training classes. You'll be more confident if you've had someone show you the best way to handle the chainsaw and go through the safety issues with you.

Funky_Bold_Ribena

Myself and another ladychum have taken over running a large community gardens which has about 23 mature fruit trees and several hundred if not more mature hawthorn and cornus as hedging. We managed to strap our breasties down, man up and last winter started the probably 3 year process of getting the trees down to a manageable size; we also built an earth oven [by ourselves] and are building a mass rocket heater next month, so all the wood had to be processed for seasoning for future use.

Women have been chopping and cutting wood for as long as there has been women, and wood. It's one of the things I teach all my students, and some of my female students with disabilities can run rings round the non-disabled but incredibly nesh male students that cry after 10 minutes of using secateurs to chop up small sticks for faggots.