Wondering if it’s any good?
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I plan on seeing it when it comes to my area.
Has anyone seen the movie as yet? Thinking about getting my Packer fix this weekend…
It’s only playing in one theater in Bakersfield so I’m wondering if there’s lack of interest or negative reviews…
We saw it last night. Went with a group of friends. Was pretty good. Others in the group really liked it.
Personal connection. The Percheron working horses in the movie belong to the parents of one of my friends we went to the movie with. Craig went to their farm for a couple of days to learn how to drive/handle the horses for the movie.
They got invited to the red carpet event the Packers had the weekend of the Bears game and we got to see their names on the credit roll.
Very cool. 
Went to the movie last night and enjoyed it very much. It was good to see the replays of that season. Since I also dairy farmed in the 80's and 90's it may have meant more to me tho. Very little farming was done that way during that time but I understand the poetic license that was used to make the dramatic effect. I'll watch it again whenever it comes TV. I would recommend seeing it.
@EC Pack posted:Personal connection. The Percheron working horses in the movie belong to the parents of one of my friends we went to the movie with. Craig went to their farm for a couple of days to learn how to drive/handle the horses for the movie.
One thing as a Packers fan I wish I could have been in Wisconsin for was when the Packers made it back in the early 90s. I was in the military at the time and the excitement was crazy for me but I wish I could have been home in the GB area during that time.
My dad had draft horses on our farm and had a team of Perchrons that he used to he used to drag out large logs we could cut up for firewood to heat the house.
We had a wood furnace growing up. One of my favorite memories of my dad was going into the woods with him in the fall to take a few trees down to be cut up and split for the winter. Once I was old enough it was my job to stack all the wood in the basement. Usually as tight as I could up against the underside of the floor joists..
My job was to chop it for our kitchen stove because we cooked using wood. My dad and our neighbors cut down the trees and into furnace-sized chunks, and then I chopped them. A piece of ironwood served as a base; put the chunk on, swing and split; rotate a half, swing and split; place the second half, swing and split. I would swing an axe for hours. Then stack it all. Grew to absolutely love it. I was never angry because swinging that axe over and over again worked out the anger pretty quickly. Sometimes I wish I still had a wood pile for when my kids got angry or if I do...
You can always come and help me cut Fandame. I have an outdoor wood furnace and don't split by hand but have a hydraulic splitter. Still has to be cut up and split and stacked tho.
Isn't splitting it by hand faster? I've never used a hydraulic, but I can learn! 
The only other issue is that I haven't swung an axe in so many years I'm liable to cut off a couple of toes!
Using a chainsaw once, my dad had it kick back, slice through the leather of his new cowboy boot, tear a hole in his sock, and not even peel off one layer of skin. He was pretty upset about his boot but was able to take it to a shoemaker and have a patch put on.
@Fandame posted:Isn't splitting it by hand faster? I've never used a hydraulic, but I can learn!
Maybe on straight grain red oak or walnut. But get into some snarly burr oak or elm and you will never split by hand again. Really easy to move a lever to the left or right. Not all tired out to load it either.
@Pikes Peak posted:Splitter is way better.
One of great days of my childhood, coming home to a splitter in the yard.
@ammo posted:Maybe on straight grain red oak or walnut. But get into some snarly burr oak or elm and you will never split by hand again. Really easy to move a lever to the left or right. Not all tired out to load it either.
Yes to the snarly oak. We had a wood furnace when I lived in western New York. Dad had the woods thinned and we cut the leftover tops to burn. The splitter saved a lot of muscle ache but you still needed to move them on and then away after splitting.
@Fandame posted:But I wouldn't get my exercise!
There were too many ways to get exercise on the farm. Didn’t need to swing the axe 😂
@Fandame posted:But I wouldn't get my exercise!
Still need to take down the tree, saw into proper lengths, move to the splitter, lift logs to the splitter, move pieces to stacking area and stack.
Plenty of exercise available.
Wood warms not twice but many, many times.
Makes my muscles ache just reading about all that physical exertion.
@DH13 posted:There is a lesson here. No matter what you do, do not cross Fandame.
AKA Lizzie Fandame
I come here for the stories about getting wood.
Getting back to the movie has anyone else viewed it. Anyone else planning on going soon or waiting for Netflix and such?
Read "Rotten Tomatoes" gave it a 99 viewer rating. Don't know if that's a good or bad thing?
A 99 means views really really really liked the movie. Go see it if you can.
@Pikes Peak posted:Still need to take down the tree, saw into proper lengths, move to the splitter, lift logs to the splitter, move pieces to stacking area and stack.
Plenty of exercise available.
Wood warms not twice but many, many times.
There's a wonderful section of Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac" called "February" where he writes about taking down an oak that had been struck by lightning with a two-man saw. It's a wonderful section, and you can find it online, I'm sure. This English/literature teacher highly recommends it.
Movie. I haven't seen it yet, but definitely will. It looks good.