Woodchuck Abbey and Woodchuck Skeet take a break
With our busy school/work/sports schedules and the short hours of daylight, it has been difficult to keep up on farm chores. We had a family Woodchuck Day yesterday (per the Geico woodchuck commercial) so that dad could get some help bringing in firewood. With our heat being 100% wood-fired now, we're still trying to learn how much it will take. Although we're going through wood very fast - at least one wheelbarrow load per day - it appears as though we're collecting wood faster than we're burning it.
Our goal is to put up three years' worth (including maple sugarin' wood). That is because firewood should season for two years to be safest, and an additional year's worth in case dad can't cut wood one year due to injury, illness, or business travel.
He spent about three hours cutting wood on Saturday and the family "woodchucked" it to the truck and then off-loaded it at the barn. We managed to get four pickup loads moved from the woods to the barn for splitting during the afternoon.
That doesn't sound like much, but we are doing it the old-fashioned way. No tractor, no four-wheeler, just a deer-cart pulled by manpower. Most pieces are just hand-carried or chucked toward the truck, sometimes as far as 90 yards, all up hill. A lot of the trees that we are getting to cut up are treetops from a logging operation and are inaccesible to vehicles anyway. The hill is too steep for a tractor or four-wheeler.
How much wood can a woodchuck chuck? Not much if she's on the phone :)
Woodchuck Dad lugs a larger piece to the truck
Woodchuck Mom decided this one was too big to chuck
Three woodchucks
The Woodchuck Truck is still holding up (barely) after 15 years of abuse
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