Trees

We had to have a few trees taken down at the Anderson Rocky Valley Estates.  I had hoped they would rebound and push out green leaves, as they were nice tall oak trees, but it wasn’t to be.

When the tree service folks came, I had them cut the trees down and leave them on the ground.  Turned out to be a lot of wood…

First tree project is firewood.  The lovely wife’s parents have a wood burning fireplace, I have a bunch of wood, wasn’t much of a stretch to make firewood.

Step 1: Build firewood rack.  Simple stuff here, pressure treated 2×4 and 4×4 pine with deck screws and galvanized lag bolts.

firewood rack

Step 2: Knock the logs down into firewood.  Chainsaw and a splitting maul made for fun work.  Several different muscle groups vigorously protested upon being pressed into service after a long hiatus.  I wasn’t sure how much firewood would fit the rack I built, so I guesstimated at 1 trailerful:

Step 3: Deliver rack and wood:

Roydog with firewood

That managed to use up about 10% of the fallen trees I have in my yard.  Stay tuned for other projects.

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