if you like doing your own firewood, this is worth the time to watch, though I usually fast forward
I learned a few things.
first, by filling a standard pickup truck with split firewood, just chucked in, that's 1/3 cord.
So it takes three pickup loads to make a full cord. New England measurement here, full cords, not face cords.
for at least ten years as a young man I went out into the farm woods each winter and helped my brothers and father cut 7 cord of
wood. All fall down, mostly oak, ash, maple, dogwood
All split by hand with steel wedges. After cutting on an OSHA nightmare buzz saw on the front of the John Deere B.
I find using a modern log splitter a total delight, probably based on swinging that sledge as a kid
one of the key points in this video that for pros the least you touch the wood the better.
Totally the opposite for me. Though my back will no longer allow a lot of stacking. Still love running a splitter,
hearing the crack, smelling the inner wood smell
the smell of freshly split wood is right up there for me with the smell of freshly turned over earth in the field behind the tractor and plow.
One is light and almost perfumey, the other is rich and dark and mushroom smelling
Well, here in PA anyway. Soil was too sandy in NC, didn't smell much.
but I don't think I'll ever enjoy the smell of manure. Yes the smell of money to some
