The more I re-read what I said and then that 1st photo, the more I laughed too... I was envisioning someone (ELSE) using a cutting torch trying to get ahead of next years propane bills <ha> Zogger was dead on regarding the need to noodle them if you are lucky enough where they don’t fall flat... about 50% of the time, they fall flat because of the terrain and I am stuck with the rip or sledge n'wedge ritual. The slices in my SECOND image were noodled into quarter pieces and were barely manageable at that. I am cutting 30 miles away at a friend's house, kindsa doing him a favor to get rid of all the wood laying on his property and, in return I get the wood for nothing (*except the price of gas). Lacking a DOT type trailer (cant use a farm trailer due to the route), I am stuck loading up the back of the pickup and using a 2x6 to "roll" them up into the bed. The fields here are all planted and the woods and swamps near me are too wet to go back with anything besides a wheel barrel and, even then - I have doubts so...until either the crops are picked or, it dries up some, or the eventual freeze; I am stuck scavenging, cutting what i can - where I can. I SHOULD have more than enough already for next winter and perhaps a couple more after that so this wood will be stacked in-wait. I probably have five plus more pickup loads of just the trunk, not counting the limbs. The limbs I have been leaving alone for now except for those that were trying to get in my way. Good stuff. no bugs, no bark, and almost completely bone dry. Wished I knew some loggers or tree trimming folks but, where I reside is a bit rural... Buying precut logs or limbed out road commission takes, delivered would be so-very-cool!!!
