Couldn't be any easier

My next-door neighbor had a good sized oak taken down today. It's been dead for two years and I don't know how he let it stay there, hanging right over his house, for so long. When the crew arrived I went over and asked about the wood. Well, the owner didn't want it and neither did the crew, so I got them to drop it in my driveway. Badda-bing-badda-boom, as we say in Jersey. Those logs are about eight feet long, up to 38" diameter. It was dead so long it's hard to tell just what it was, but I'm going with black oak, judging by the bark.

I don't really need the wood because I'm four or five years ahead already, but I need something to do. Cutting and splitting wood is the only form of exercise I enjoy. Besides, now I can feel comfortable making some of my dry wood available to friends who don't have enough.

paul bunion said:

The jersey scrounge, wood just appears in your yard, neat, clean and horizontal. Good you got them in longer lengths, I'll take that any day over random rounds. It's just as much work cutting off cookies and chunks and then it doesn't stack neat. I'm going to call for a load myself in early October once it cools off.
That there is also an excuse for a peavey/cant hook and a pickaroon if you don't have either yet.

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I totally agree about the random lengths you tend to get from tree service scrounges. Not that I blame them, they're just getting a job done in the most expeditious way they can. My "ease of stacking" quotient is not uppermost in their minds. This way, I get to size up each log and butcher it to my liking.

Glad that I already have a timberjack that will help me roll these babies around. Even Paul Bunyan (Bunion?) couldn't do that without a little help. Am I right?