Yes indeed. The SheWolf got me hooked on cutting up tops and dragging branches to the yard for kindling. The small pieces from branches make great starter wood. Aside from a stump there isn't much left of a tree out here when it's all said and done.
She tried to talk me into bucking and splitting an old, punky log last year. The darn thing had toadstools growing all over it. She said it would make for great kindling or starter wood. I said the stuff would burn up like newspaper.
She replied well, sure. It'll burn nice and hot. That's what we want.
Gotta love 'em.
Really, that's cool. Waste not. I got hooked on milking trees out when I first started cutting wood, as it was all with a bowsaw. I thought "no way am I leaving this stuff, if I can't cut it easy with a saw, wait until dry, bust it up with my hands".
Been doing that ever since, even after switching to chainsaws. Cut small, along with medium and large, and you wind up stacking BIG.
Ya, takes more time...good excuse to run a chainsaw more, too....bigfun! Small saws, big saws, it's all saws!
It *adds up* in the stacks!
The guys who bucket trucked down the branches in the yard were gonna come back with a backhoe and push all the branches into the field and burn them! OAK! A lot of those chunks are 10-12"! I go NO WAY JOSE, I'LL DEAL WITH IT, THANKS. Five cords now of *decent* wood, with about another half cord of small stuff to go, then what is left over I'll stack way in the back yard and go break it up next summer, throw the small chunks into these plastic crates I get for free.
There's no telling how much wood just gets burnt up in piles or ignored in this nation daily, because it isn't main trunk wood, big blocks. Megajoules worth.