Days 70/15: Déconfinement Logging

Posting in Retrospect:

It's been a hard week when BRAIN had to engage motivation, intelligence, clear thinking and BIFF editing skills and  BODY had to beef up!  Never mind the pain....make muscles work!!!!!!!

Monday 25th May the gardener and I spent several hours logging.  
He with the chainsaw.  Me picking up, grading, bagging, boxing, stacking, storing the small to medium logs as kindling or flame starters for the woodburner.  A few logs have been moved to the pile to be split later!   All the piles of very old, very dry as if cut straight from the trees wood has been cut into woodburner sizes.  Some pieces were more than a metre long and up to about 20 /25cm thick, some were short / thin enough to be chopped or sawn for kindling.
The wood was gifted and moved here. It has cost about 12 hours total my labour and two bottles of wine to the men and 5 hrs gardener costs.   So it was not free!!!!!  BUT I am so very very happy to have it for next winter.

I shall need more kindling and there is a cubic metre to saw into short pieces.  A good workawayer in the Autumn could get this done with a circular saw which tool has been left here and is now mine ... but the jig table was taken to the decheterie.... bit short sighted of me ,but at that stage I just wanted to get rid of junk!   I have enough wood to make another table,

There is other "kept as useful wood" but a man with knowledge could decide what to keep and what to saw up.

This barn opposite my garden was full to the double door on the left,  so much so, they evidently could not really enter!!!!!!  Much of the wood and the items inbetween went to the decheterie

And was moved to here and elsewhere for several weeks until I had the idea and energy to move it off the grass.

Good ... the old broken aluminium ladder did not go to the decheterie so I broke it some more,
to create a upport so the dry wood did not get wet from rainwater.

Under the table and  piled 130cm apx high

CLEARED

Work in progress ... almost done

Most of the smaller 30cm ish long logs bagged and stacked and more in boxes and bags to the left as kindling.

This many 40 or 50cm logs

This many wonky shaped ones... not to mention about this amount  that didn't need splitting burned in April

The ones for the logsplitter.

Such a relief to have that done before the winter!   Lovely dry lightweight logs to provide flames quickly when the air does not draw enough.