For the last couple of days I decided to just go to work on the pile of cut logs and other tree refuse I had stacked along the driveway. I wanted to try and get as much of this crap cut, split and stacked as I can. Of course this incorporated more use of the chainsaws and the log splitter. Some of the logs were 3 ft + long sections that still needed cutting into the shorter sections. There were also narrower branches of a couple inches thick that needed to be cut down into small pieces, these would serve as kindling for the larger pieces of wood. With enough sweaty hours I was able to process so much wood that I stacked up four plus pallets of wood along with the other stacked pallets. I cleaned out the pile pretty good, enough so that I was left with only a few short sections of logs in the main pile. There is a secondary pile around the power pole that consists of smaller pieces that I will go after in the next round but the main task was the large pile that was in the way of the side park area along the driveway. I've had to dip into the decaying pallet pile trying to find more pallets to stage so I can put more split wood onto. I might even have to go as far as patch a pallet or two to provide extra surface for stacking. I'm estimating that I will need two more pallets to take care of the remaining wood plus any extra that might be generated from around the lot. Under some circumstances I've even sacrificed some otherwise useful branch pieces to the burn pile as I didn't want to spend the extra time trying to glean usable wood from these pieces plus I'm already up to my ears in firewood. Plus with the decaying pallet pile, there is another source of firewood that I still have to tap into. This wood will probably be relegated to outside use wood since it is usually treated with chemicals and has nails and screws in them. Again, I'll be awash with wood for the foreseeable future. And speaking of burn piles, there was the matter of the pile generated from that tree that I cut up earlier... The burn pile from the branches of that tree were plenty dry after sitting for several days plus it was growing even more as I dug out more branches from the log pile that I didn't want to mess with. Other miscellaneous branches and shit were also stacked on the pile. The large sheets of bark that came from the logs were also stacked on the pile. I also had a large pile of bagged trash to be disposed of. I went ahead to fire the burn can, which was more or less half surrounded by branches. I already knew what was gonna happen with this. The burn pile caught after being subjected to the heat from the burn can long enough. The dry leaves helped flare up the pile nicely. I kept adding bark to the pile as I split more wood and threw the outer sections of branches further into the hot zone as the fire burned its way down further. I did have the thought of trying to cut some other branches that I saw as "low lying fruit" to further throw on the pile while it was burning but said fuck it as I figured there will be plenty of episodes of growing burn piles as I do more landscaping around the area.
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