The woodpile before (Jake & Bandit ready to work)
We still don't have the roof on the wood stacks, and that isn't likely to happen until next year. What could happen though, is the ugly piles of wood could be cleaned up. Most of the mess came about when a tree-trimmer from Evansville offered to dump a big load of firewood and ash logs a couple of years ago. More happened when neighbor Bob Townsend dragged some oak logs up from the field behind the house.
Unfortunately, the load of firewood was many different lengths of firewood, most of which was just a few inches too long for our stove. The humongous logs that the tree-trimmer dropped off were so big that they were difficult to cut up and the largest had woven wire in it, which prohibited any bucking into firewood. Those huge logs were cut up or burned off last winter. The remaining piles needed to be cut up, split, and stacked. That is what we were faced with as we began yesterday morning.
We cut, we split, we hauled, we stacked, and we whacked the weeds with the trusty weedeater. By mid-afternoon, all was cleaned up except for a small stack of wood chips and some "cain'ts". Cain'ts are those pieces of firewood that cain't be split with the maul. Dad either gives these to Neighbor Bill or cuts them into half-length pieces so that they can be split and used as "junk" wood to be burnt during the day when logs don't have to be banked.
The good feeling of a clean back yard makes us wonder why we waited so long to tie into this job.
The workhorse
Jake was bored
John Evans came by with his 11-pointer, Skeet protected it while he was here
All done
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