A few days ago, Grandpa declared that he was going to put in a new, short side trail to some jack pines that had been killed by a porcupine.
Yesterday he finished the trail and cut up some smaller deadwood that he deemed suitable for firewood. As such, today I took the ATV and trailer up his new trail and loaded up.
On the way back, I took a corner too sharply on a slope, and dumped the trailer :(. But it wasn’t a big deal to set it right and reload it.
I got the wood back to the shed without incident, and Grandpa began splitting it.
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| Grandpa gets right to it! |
I had a number of other miscellaneous logs in the area that I had skidded last week, so I took advantage of the nice weather to cut them up into stove length and create another pile of wood “to be split”.
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| Note the safety chaps! |
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| Putting my best face forward. |
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| Longer ones I’d buck up well off the ground, as long as I could still lift them. |
At lunch, Grandpa ended his workday here, and I went inside to start writing some blog posts, as well as check up on Kenny’s self-directed studies. You can find his blog here:
http://kengarstin.blogspot.ca/?zx=f007f9aa4dc4c604
Hopefully he’ll find something worth posting again soon. He’s been so busy!
At least the woodshed is even more full than before! Capacity – here we come!
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| The outer pile grows nicely! |
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| Halfway up the door frame! |