First free wood (pic)

The school where I teach has a sister nursery school (kindergarten) in the foothills of a local mountain with lots of cherry trees cut down and doing nothing. I was told to take as much as I want. I bought a chainsaw and this is the first load:


It is mostly cherry and will be stacked tomorrow, just as soon as I can clear some space for it. There is loads of the stuff and I will be visiting the nursery school every weekend until I get a few cords for next year. I must chop it up now.



This is my saw, an Echo GS35A, which cut up the logs with ease:

Oohh, cherry advice, thanks for that. I think I snagged about 1/10th or 1/15th of it today.

It does get pretty cold here. Mid-winter highs or about 4/5C (40F) and below freezing most nights. We only get a few days snow every year but that doesn't stop people putting snow tyres on their road cars.

Firewood is expensive so I'm glad of the free wood!

Hi Smokinjay,

If there are adjustments I need to make on the chainsaw or in my technique for sawing please explain further. It is a brand new saw with new chain and, I assume, set up how it should be. Could it be that Japanese chains are slightly different to those in the US? Let me know before I get back out with it on Monday (national holiday here).