LOL! Timely comment Patrick, we have about 4″ of fresh snow on the ground! My typical comment about this is 1½ months ago I would have been pumped and excited about this snow, now it is just a four letter word! Cheers!

El Jefe,

The firewood currently seasoning consists of two batches. The first is a smallish amount of maple. We obtained a permit form the US Forest service and my Dad and I searched out downed trees. We harvested some for the cabin and a bit for myself. That wood we found, we cut it into 8′ pieces, got it back to the cabin (or my house) and then bucked it and hand split it. The majority of my wood is white oak. That wood was purchased by a semi-tractor-trailer load and the person I went in on that purchase with had quite the setup. He had a mini-crawler with a bucket, he’ld pick up three-four logs and we’ld attack with either a 16″-20″ bar Stihl saw or maybe the 4′ saw! This fellow also had a tractor driven hydraulic splitter. Not done yet, this guy had a large dump trailer and two loads of that and one load of my Dad’s Chilton trailer and we had the wood at my place all split and ready for seasoning. Some of the wood was already seasoned, but I had to pick through it.