Our property has a few stands of small to medium size trees. I love trees, but there was a stand of evergreens within 20 feet of the house. They were mixed species - pine, fir, juniper, spruce - and planted as a hedge, as little as a foot apart. Over the years, they reached about 20 or 30 feet tall. This presented a fire hazard to the house, being near a long row of Leyland cypress on the neighbor's property. So we had them cut down two months ago.
We have a wood-stove, which is under-size. This wood-stove is nice as a supplemental heat source on cold winter days. The ashes go into the vegetable garden, source of calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium, among others. We gave away the largest logs, but kept the smaller ones for the wood-stove.
I want to get those into the woodshed to dry and for storage. All of them need cutting into half, or thirds, or trim of the ends, to fit into the wood-stove. The larger diameter logs get cut into cookies, to lay sideways in the stove, instead of lengthwise. I think those will dry faster, and they burn faster. Each day, I cut enough to fill the small wagon. It's a hard job, but is gradually nearing completion. I think there are about three days of work to go.
These go into the woodshed at the other end of the property. They will cure for a year or two or three, before use as wood-stove logs. This may be the last of my major firewood cutting. It's too much. But it will be nice to have them there for when we want them.
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