In my quest to clean up the grounds of errant trees, I continued with the chicken yard. I went ahead and brought down the remaining small "weed" trees that I planned on dropping. One was close enough to the fence that I had to cut the tree above the fence line otherwise the saw would've been hindered by the old chain link fence on the inside of the chicken yard fence. Plus, cutting the tree above the fence line allowed the tree to fall safely over the fence without damaging the pickets. As with the other tree, I cut the branches from the trunk and cut them in short enough lengths to allow for a neat stacking on the burn pile to ensure even firing. The trunk was cut down into shorter lengths to allow me to easily move them and stage them in the driveway where I planned on cutting any tree wood. This wood is going to be used for any outdoor burns with my half drum as its still relatively green compared to the wood that's stacked in the firewood staging area behind the house. At this point the burn pile was pretty large with all of the branches that I managed to stack up. I did take time to add bags of garbage that would've normally been burned in a burn drum. This garbage would help in getting the tree trash to ignite better, along with a little gas/oil mixture for good measure. Another issue that had to be addressed was a bunch of trees at the back of the yard where the fuel shed and the storage racks are set up at. I was able to bring down one smaller pine tree that was just a trunk but the next one was problematic as it did the exact opposite of what I tried to make it do. Because of this I had to call the tree guy that we used the last time to bring down the tree in the chicken yard that was leaning towards the house. When the tree guy came out and looked at the tree he quoted one price then pointed out several other trees that were dead as well and said he could give me a good price to take care of all the trees. He wanted $700 for the one tree I tried to cut down but could take care of the seven other trees all together for $1300. I jumped on this deal since being able to get these dead trees down would clean up the area well enough that I can go ahead and build whatever I need to build back in this area without the risk of a dead tree dropping a heavy branch onto something. In a few hours the tree guy and his two partners brought down all the trees and got the remains stacked up on the far end of the clearing, out of the way but neat enough that I can more easily work on the "processing" of the wood. As with the smaller trees, I'll be working on breaking up branches and other small detritus while getting the larger trunks and branches. With the number and size of these trees I will of course have my work cut out for me in getting everything cut up and moved around as I need to in order to facilitate full processing of the material. I will probably have a couple of burn piles going to dispose of all of the branches and other small material and the amount of firewood I'll end up getting from splitting all this wood will probably net me more wood than what the other wood gave me from the last batch of trees from the March 2020 storm. That's fine, between what wood we're using through this winter and the wood I use while outside working on stuff, hopefully I'll be able to put enough of a dent in the current supply that the wood I net from this new batch won't be too overwhelming. The work will continue.
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