Timber!

The extended warm weather has allowed us additional time for tree cutting, log splitting, and forest clean up.  Log splitting and forest clean up can continue even after the weather turns cold and rainy and snowy, but tree cutting becomes dangerous. 

These trees aren't pretty.  They are crooked and twisted.  Some are dead.  Others have diseases and are dying.  We aren't just cutting trees to cut trees. 

We have a few piles of wood.  There is the pile for this year, the pile for next year..

The pile by the garage.  The pile for the neighbors. 
 

 
Then what happens, we get a call from Chainsaw Johnny's aunt.  She is having a tree cut in her yard (we're not cutting it, she's hired a company.) and do we want the wood?

Of course!  It's maple, it's precut for us, it will make nice warm fires, and it was FREE. But that also means another pile of wood.

 
It was a big pile of wood. These are only the branches of the tree!

 
There's still many branches to go and the trunk of the tree is 4 feet across! It was a beautiful tree at one time, but has grown too large.  She had concerns about it falling on her house and it was providing so much shade to her house, that she was having moisture, dampness, and moss issues IN her house. 

We filled our Big Red truck and Chain Saw Johnny's truck and there is still two more truckloads of logs just from the first cutting!  We're going to be overloaded with wood.  If there is a cold disaster, we'll be ready.  

What comes after hauling...splitting.

 
Walt Kowalski said "We're wood groupies.  We'll go where the wood is." I said I think we're more like wood junkies.  We need another wood fix.

Come on over for a fire.  It's great!