...so I can get my firewood across the river at my sister's house! 
I cut some ash and apple blow downs from the past winter a few weeks ago. My brother in law called and said the Little Pudding River is low enough to build the bridge, so I can get my wood. So we built the bridge tonight after work. It's easy, the beams stay in place all year. You build the bridge by putting the planks down, and the two outer planks on either side bolt down. That's it!
We got across the river, and low and behold, three more large 40' ash branches came down in the past month, since cutting up the other blow downs. They were hiding. My brother in law wanted them cut tonight, because he already hired a teen to come put all the branches into burn piles tomorrow. I said, "tonight"? !! He said, "yep". So, I ran the 7 miles home, grabbed my saw, and came back, and commenced to cutting. It took about 1.5 hours to cut up the three large ash branches, and numerous small branches and sticks here and there from the last good wind blow. The firewood from the three blow downs amounted to roughly 1/4 cord give or take.
There are two before, two during, and one after pic of the ash cut tonight.
I stacked the firewood into a pile, and I'll gather it later. I still have about a cord to split at my stacks on another higher portion of his property, where I store my firewood, before I can get all the wood in the pasture.
I cut some ash and apple blow downs from the past winter a few weeks ago. My brother in law called and said the Little Pudding River is low enough to build the bridge, so I can get my wood. So we built the bridge tonight after work. It's easy, the beams stay in place all year. You build the bridge by putting the planks down, and the two outer planks on either side bolt down. That's it!
We got across the river, and low and behold, three more large 40' ash branches came down in the past month, since cutting up the other blow downs. They were hiding. My brother in law wanted them cut tonight, because he already hired a teen to come put all the branches into burn piles tomorrow. I said, "tonight"? !! He said, "yep". So, I ran the 7 miles home, grabbed my saw, and came back, and commenced to cutting. It took about 1.5 hours to cut up the three large ash branches, and numerous small branches and sticks here and there from the last good wind blow. The firewood from the three blow downs amounted to roughly 1/4 cord give or take.
There are two before, two during, and one after pic of the ash cut tonight.
I stacked the firewood into a pile, and I'll gather it later. I still have about a cord to split at my stacks on another higher portion of his property, where I store my firewood, before I can get all the wood in the pasture.
The first two pics are other piles of ash, and the third pic is the apple.
I split an 8 foot row on Monday, and it fell after the last piece I stacked, and it fell again today. That's the first/second time I have lost an end stack in years, and I lost it twice in three days, I must be getting lame. Enjoy the pics and post.
The truck ran just fine with the $4.00/gallon gas. At that price it better. 
with the storm that moved in. 
I'm already 3 years ahead, and I don't want to be 4 years ahead. 3 years ahead is plenty. I was going to split more tonight, but the rain changed my mind. It's a good thing, I can rest, I'm sore.
