Firewood

With the neighborhood weather into the 80's today, it didn't feel like time to cut firewood. While mowing the lawn I found a couple of dead ash trees next to our apple orchard that needed to come down. It looked like a simple job of dropping the dead trees and missing the apple trees on both sides and not taking down to overhead power lines. What could go wrong?

The first tree dropped as planned and on to tree #2. This one didn't follow the plan. The dead tree spun to the right as it broke the hinge cut and landed in the side of an apple tree. It then did a seesaw on the apple tree which force the butt end of the tree up and backward into my shoulder, knocking me to the ground as I threw the running chainsaw clear of my landing area. Due to the tree's right hand turn, the top of the tree now careened off the overhead power lines before coming to rest on top of the first tree.

With the dead trees down it's time to make them into firewood. Grandson Reed always wants to help with chores. Enough work for this day. We'll split the rest of the blocks tomorrow.



Grandma, you have to hit it harder.



This is how you split firewood.



The woods all split and time to stack it.



And I found you a pretty flower Grandma.



We now have more firewood for next winter than we used this past winter.