Annual Firewood Festival, Part Deux

Autumn is usually pretty busy at Shangri-la and this year is no exception.  Mrs. Barn is cleaning out her gardens, canning and dehydrating up a storm, we are doing lots of end-of-summer yard work including bush hogging a large section of hillside, and getting the firewood situation in-hand.

I’ve been spending much of the last fortnight splitting and stacking all the tons of wood my brother and I harvested a month ago.  I got all that done (about 80% of what we’ll need for winter 2025/2026) and will go hunting and gathering more fallen trees in the forest to be turned into BTUs.  I’ve already identified about three winters’ worth of trees that are literally a windfall.  Now all I have to do is clear a path for my little 4WD pickup with the knobby tires to get to them.

One of the great helps in all of this is having a very large staging area to do all the collecting, splitting, and stacking.  Many years ago I had a large parking area constructed next to the barn in anticipation of workshops and student parking.  Since that endeavor has drawn to a close, it is free and available for me and my firewood operation.