CLEAN UP AND FIREWOOD

Well it is time to get the place cleaned up a bit. The hillside behind the house was getting pretty over grown, so we hire Matt Bailey, Budget Tree Service, to remove several large trees that were pretty dangerous and could have hit the house, with the neighbors permission. It took them several days to down the trees and chip the brush and it sure opened up the hillside, but there are still some to take down. We did not take any of the evergreens as per the neighbors directions. 

Well at this point I have most of the wood at least cut up, just a few logs left down here to cut and a couple up the hill to the south end of the property left to gather and cut.

 We have quite a bit of the wood split up also, between Janice her father, Emil, and I we have built a pretty good pile. Just for reference, that square garden frame leaning against the dirt pile in the back is four foot by four foot.

 some of the stuff cut but still needing to be split.

Every year we get very familiar with the splitter, and I think I am developing calluses on my bottom from sitting on that log. 

During the splitting process we generate quite a bit of kindling, hey it burns right?

All that is left of the large pile of wood, at least out of the woodshed, is some scrap bark.

The area all c,eared out.

the next two pics are the wood we put into the woodshed minus what we have already burned.

 Not a bad amount of wood for the winter, roughly three cords.

I had a picture of the kindling that we got from all of the chips, but at present have lost track of it.