As I continue to work my way through all of the debris that was left after all of the dead and dying pine trees were brought down, I started amassing a large pile of trunks and logs that will be eventually cut up for firewood. These pieces range in size from smaller sections of branches around 2 to 3 inches in diameter all the way to foot wide sections of logs. Even though I started actually making a little headway into the pile, working my way from the storage racks east into the rest of the debris, I ended up finding that my soon to be firewood pile was growing larger and larger. When I compare this firewood pile to what is still out there I already had to come to terms with the fact that I will have so much wood to further cut and split that I will be busy processing firewood well into summer, given the idea that I will be working on other projects along the way.
Needless to say, I still want to try and get as much of the garbage wood and branches and other unusable crap processed out of the pile of refuse before I start focusing on processing firewood. I figured that I will end up cutting up all of the branches and other trash and burn that stuff up long before I ever make any serious dent in the tree trunks. When you're talking about trees ranging in size from 6 inches to 12+ inches and upwards of 100 ft tall, you can only imagine the scope of what I'm dealing with. Either way, I'll be real well off in the firewood department, or whatever other projects I may have on the roster that involve the use of logs or trunks or firewood or whatever. I'm sure I can think of something. By adopting this strategy I managed to start clearing out the area, making my way out from the areas that were used for scrap storage and working my way into the clearing at the Southeast corner of the yard. By moving future firewood to the staging pile while focusing on getting trash over to the burn pile I managed to get a good clearing of area pretty fast. The saws were really putting in some overtime as I had to swap out batteries several times during the whole session of work. When my half drum burn can was getting full due to the fire inside not consuming the contents fast enough I would move over to cutting logs for a while, then move back to cutting and throwing scrap into the burn can and stacking the burn pile. This way I kept a steady flow of product from the area, no matter what the category of product. Some refuse if it was too big to cut up to throw in the burn can it went on the pile so I didn't waste too much time cutting large sections into smaller sections, it just went right on the burn pile. In the process of cutting all this stuff up I did have to deal with a lot of old poison ivy vines that had grown up the trees thick enough to almost be trees in and of themselves. These vines had to be trimmed up and disposed of as they would be a problem. Common practices warn against burning PI but because of the large amount of the stuff I had to deal with I threw the bits and pieces in the burn can and just stayed downwind from the smoke as the stuff was consumed. Some larger sections went on the burn pile. Either way this stuff was a problem-before, during and definitely after as I've been scratching from the apparent exposure to the urushiol oils from these accursed plants. I still didn't let that stop me from getting the logs cut up and me getting more trash burnt. With this amount of cleanup work going on it didn't take long before the burn pile grew to a point that this crap was going to need to be fired before it got to the point where I'd need other trash and accelerant to get the pile going well enough to fully consume the branches. I was already stacking trash bags of burnable garbage over around and within the burn pile. Of course this will mean taking a break just to burn up the tree trash as well as anything else I have going on. Either way, whatever it takes to ensure all this trash is gone, I will continue to stack more trash on the pile and force that part of me to go out there and fire it before the other side of me is out there bringing that much more crap to toss on the pile. It will get done.
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