it's Pete from cheap homesteading and today's the day we're gonna cut a little
bit of firewood I am still trying to catch up with my firewood situation
there's never enough time in the day for sure last year I didn't cut enough
firewood and I'm paying for it this year so the only way I can dig myself out of
this hole is to find some dead standing wood cut it up and split it and I can
burn it this year because normally if it's dead and standing on the bark
starting to loosen off the wood is dry enough to burn right away so let's start
okay so here it is a big old dead ash so this is gonna be perfect
there's a little bit of life left in the stump but there's not much up here so I
am going to cut this down but you have to be careful with these see there's a
dead branch hanging right there those leaves there are actually just a vine so
that's no issue but there's no life all the way down so at the stump you'll have
some moisture four feet up you won't have any okay so first you got to read
the tree and it sure looks like there's more weight on this side so she's coming
down here the only problem is most of my branches and everything gonna be in
right where my road is so not to clean this up so I'm gonna try to drop it
right there I am telling you this is the most dangerous kind of cutting you're
gonna be doing when you have a bunch of dead branches above you any one of those
can fall it's really important to take a look at what's up there and what the
potential hazard is going to be and you got to make sure you have your escape
routes ready so let's see
okay so let's see what kind of mess this made in my trail okay so there you go
it's down and it didn't land over the trail the top broke off that's a bonus
so now I can cut up the base here and throw it out to the trail and load it up
in my trunk I gotta give my chain a bit of a touch-up I find when you're
knotting firewood cutting mode you don't have your chain sharpened up habit i'm
your less organized that's where I'm at
it's not a perfect sharpen but it'll cut way better than a did so we better start
getting this cut up see if it'll split I'll be the next thing
I gotta keep going I have to get this wood if winter is coming
I don't know what it is this year every time I go to cut firewood or bring
firewood and it starts raining I have two loads in and I probably need another
two loads to fill that shed so I don't know I'm gonna clear up the trail here
and then we're gonna try to cut a little bit more okay
this is nice see if there's any more dead ash flows
okay so there you go every single time I have a chance to bring in some firewood
or cut some firewood it starts pouring rain I went as long as I can but I have
to stop so you guys have a good one