Splitting wood

With the colder days we can get wood split for winter. We use our own fallen trees and we sometimes buy logs from locals. We heat by wood stove using logs and pellets. This pile of logs was from a felled tree on our pond. The tree fell into the pond and had to be pulled out with a tractor. After a year of sitting in the lean to it is ready to be split and stacked.

We started in the afternoon and it is now nightfall. We got the log pile and a truck load split and stacked. This is one of two splits we make to get through winter. Wood heat is cheap and warms you twice. Once when you cut it and once when you burn it.

 This wood stack becomes a winter home for chipmunks.

Our lean to keeps the firewood dry. The metal cans with lids keep our trash from the bears.