Pilfering fire wood

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In an earlier decade, we would clear roads fifty feet wide. Take down trees, cut the logs into fireplace length, and leave them. Anyone who wanted unsplit firewood was welcome to it. You would not believe how many could not be bothered to want the firewood only because it was too green or not yet split.

Take the wood home. Leave it sit for 6 months. Wait for temperatures to be real low because wood splits so easily then. We were happy to have - literally encouraged - others come and haul logs off the land. We even had to cut it to fireplace lengths - else they would not take it. Just more trash that otherwise would have to be buried.

Some of my peers would even play a game. One would pick a spot and stand there while another cut down the tree. Winner was the one closest to the fallen tree - therefore got the coolest breeze from that tree - without moving or being hit by the tree.

Learned to appreciate everything made by Stihl.

Do not leave those logs not cut to fireplace length. Cut them now before the wood hardens and while the cutting is still easy on saw blades. An old trick. First mark the entire log in fireplace lengths. Then go wild cutting them at each marked spot.