[Graybeard58]

He was still brawny enough to carry five-gallon barrels full of logs to his home

5 gallon barrels? That's not a lot of logs.

[Huntress]

It is if you're 93.

[ErnBatavia]

5 gallon barrels? That's not a lot of logs.

He's blessed that he even knows what he's doing, let alone toting anything other than a walker, at 93...

[WesternPacific]

5 gallon barrels? That's not a lot of logs.

It is for a 93 year old man.

[PeterPrinciple]

five-gallon barrels full of logs to his home

I think we have a reporter here that doesn't understand the local language. Reminds me of a speech in Toastmasters where a guy from South America talked about his mother-in- law having an operation for kidney rocks.

[1066AD]

But it says barrels, I wonder how many he carried at once ?

[billhilly]

Five gallons is a bucket where I came from, and a barrel is 55 gallons, but the old fellow could have taught all 300,000,000 of us a lot. He could have instructed Harry Reid and John Murtha that you don't run the white flag up and quit, whether it be in keeping up your farm, your family, or your country. That you are not really as important as you think you are. That you are privileged to have been born in this country, or this state, or county and to have a piece of it for your own to be responsible for. To care for your own animals, your own children, your own house without a government official with no concept of any of those tasks deciding how it should be done.

Cy Harker could have probably summarized hundreds of books on responsibility, written by college professors, who never had responsibility, by saying, "That's why I'm here."

And now, he's gone.

[mamelukesabre]

I wonder if they meant five gallon buckets?

I've never seen barrels that small.

But if they were in fact barrels and not buckets, that would be quite heavy for a man that old. The barrel would weigh as much as the logs it could hold.


Either way, though, it's not a very effective way to haul firewood. Someone shoulda got the poor old guy a wheelbarrow. Preferably one of those nice flatbed types that have two large bicycle-like wheels. They are perfect for firewood.

[Red Badger]

5 gallon barrels? That's not a lot of logs.

It is if you're 93..........

[TChris]

5 gallon barrels? That's not a lot of logs.

OK, either it was 5-gallon buckets of--probably split--wood, or 35-55 gallon barrels of logs. And I'm guessing a guy in his 90's wasn't carrying barrels filled with logs.

[MarkL]

He was still brawny enough to carry five-gallon barrels full of logs to his home

5 gallon barrels? That's not a lot of logs.

I'm less that half his age, and if I drive to the bank and the cleaners on the same day, I need a nap!

Mark