After having cut up the branches from half of the dropped tree in the back yard area last time, I picked up where I left off. I had already burned the brush pile from that last clean up so it was time for another pile up. Since the branches on the other half of the fallen tree were just like before, it wouldn't really take much effort. Of course I did come up with a way to make things go a little quicker for me. Instead of taking time to cut up the branches on site and dragging them over to the burn pile I went ahead and dragged the large sections of broken branches over to the burn site. I only cut branches when it was necessary for me to be able to move the sections better versus trying to drag a whole tree. Also, once I got through cutting up all the branches as stated before, I can then take time to hack up the trunk portions with the chainsaw and move them over to my staging area so I can split the wood.
After dragging the sections of branches to the burn pile I went ahead and cut everything up where I could quickly stack everything on the ash pile that was still warm somewhat. Just as before I wanted to cut the branches into small enough pieces that I can stack everything and get a good compressed pile that when fired up will burn up completely and quickly. With everything cleared up I was ready to fire the pile. Even though there were hot coals present I still needed to throw a couple small bags of trash into the heart of the pile to help everything fire up quickly. From there I started cutting up the larger portions of tree trunk. I would have to use the wheelbarrow to move all this stuff over to the splitting site since, well, all this crap is huge and heavy. I could've used the S10 again but I didn't want to have to drive past the burning crap plus I would have to go through the hassle of refilling that right front tire that always goes flat and probably charge the battery. One thing that was nice though was being able to see the light at the end of the tunnel with regard to the cleanup work. By the time I got done cutting up all the trunk sections of the tree I would go through to my third battery on the saw. It's fine since the last section of trunk was over a foot wide and not really dried out enough to be able to cut up easily. The work got done though but there's still a matter of moving this crap to the other side of the yard so I can split this stuff. It took five trips to move everything over to the staging area with the wheelbarrow. The smaller diameter section that was cut up first was able to be moved with 1 1/2 wheelbarrows capacity. The 2nd load took the remaining smaller stuff while I piled in a couple of the larger cuts of logs. The rest of the loads would only contain three logs as a time due to the size and weight of each chunk of wood. With all this new wood added to the already huge stack of pre-cut wood, I'm going to end up occupying even more space in the dwindling storage space in the firewood staging area. Until I lay more gravel and pallets down to expand my storage capacity, I won't be able to stack all of this wood and clear the area. The most I'll be able to do is just cut and split everything and have it ready to move to the pallet area later in the future. And as I've stated a million times, we'll have firewood for years, and there's still a matter of all of the Fallen Trees that I have to cut and split, that wood by itself will probably double what we already have stacked and staged right now....
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