The thing about firewood

[timill]

is that it warms you several times.

We had a couple of dead trees felled when we moved in here (standard Tennessee method - chainsaw to prepare the fell, and a length of line, a block, and a pickup truck to do the actual felling) and the feller chainsawed the trunks into firewood lengths.

On Monday we hired another chap to split the logs - he reckoned a couple of ricks (whatever that is) so about $80. In fact he spent much of the day at it, estimated the pile at 6-7 ricks ($240) and there's still as much again to split.

So this week I've been moving the split wood up from where the trees were to the lower porch and stacking it. I now have a pile about 8'x2'x2', and the original pile doesn't look any smaller.

Who needs a gym?

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P.S. My grandfather had a timber-yard. We have photos of a large tree being taken back by horse team (after being felled by hand, of course). In fact we used his old two-man saw to finish felling a tree in my parents' garden, since my chainsaw was too small to do it all (and it gave better control - we also had a winch on a rope doing the pickup's job).

The version of the "several times" I've heard was "once for felling, once for splitting, once for burning".