Single Malts - and other odd Musings

Working ON Winter 2014/15

freshly split wood at the right - this is only semi-split - I split it this far for easy handling and easy seasoning and get back to it later to do the final splitting before I pile it under the roof of the rick.





Neighbor had two large oak trees cut down and were happy to have me come in and  cut them up and clear them out - this is the smaller of the two - about a cord or so including the fresh wood at the back of the wood rick - got started on the second larger tree and after doing the limbs and then cutting the length in chunks, almost through to the ground but not quite, I suddenly found that my Stihl was either running underpowered or the chain had some mysterious illness so have to solve that and get back to the tough job of cutting the final several inches without running the chain into the ground or binding the saw - then the splitting with a maul so that I can load and haul the wood home.

2 comments:

  1. Good set up there Steve. Is that chair for sale?
    Reminds me of one of my visits with Frances. She was outside cutting wood and tossing each piece closer to the house. Eventually she would let each piece sail into the nearby cellar window.
    Gosh, I do miss her.

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  2. just wrote a long answer to you and somehow pushed the 'get lost' button and it did.

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