It has been a few weeks since I wrote about my firewood collection, its a near daily task. Sometimes I spend an hour collecting wood, others most of the day.. Just depending on what the weather is like at the time and how I feel. I line up all the larger pieces so they are easier to cut.
Recently a power utility crew came through and trimmed back the trees by the power lines on their easement on my property, this gave us a lot of wood to pick up and use for the furnace.
It may be hard to see but the entire power line cut is filled with tree branches with the cutting they did.
We load up the UTV and bring it back to the homestead.
Back near the workshop we cut up some large logs, these are pretty wet so we will need to dry them by the barn for a few weeks before we try to burn them. But when ready they will make for some great firewood coming from a hardwood Oak tree.
We collect smaller wood down by the creek and bring it up to cut it by the barn, some of it we will store and others we will burn right away.
I have been building up a nice stack of smaller firewood branches, whenever I find a large branch that is over 8 feet long I pile it up. So when the weather is bad I can just pull from that pile instead of going out in the bad weather looking for firewood.
We have a collection of small, medium and big firewood. Need to collect more of the big stuff. Most of that comes from the cow farm my foreman works on part time. Most of the trees on my property are pretty young, so once in awhile my foreman brings a load of large tree trunks we can cut into pieces for firewood.
He uses the backup Craftsman chainsaw and I use my corded Sawzall. My Stihl chainsaw is having some problems starting up, so we have to use the light weight Craftsman. Its not designed for commercial use like the Stihl, but slowly we cut through everything with it. Need to figure out what is wrong with the Stihl or take it to a small engine mechanic. I already checked the spark plug for corrosion, checked the air filter and made sure the engine was not flooded.. It wont even burp when the choke is on during the first few pull so something seems clogged. Not really sure, need to look into it more. But for now the Craftmans seems to be holding up.
We wrapped up the day with a blunt made from my Sour Diesel grow and some nice rolling papers.
The taste is great, it has had months to cure and now all the flavors are just right. The tobacco leaf added flavor and effect as well.
I sat back and enjoyed a nice blunt my foreman rolled for us.
We passed it back and forth until it was mostly gone and just down to the tobacco in the front of it.
Brothers Broadleaf is the maker of these tobacco rolling papers, really tasty and much better than the backwoods we tried last time.
It was really nice sitting back after a full day of firewood collection and enjoy a blunt. Extra special when rolled from something I grew, so it was a good day. Looking forward to trying more blunts rolled with these new papers.
