And so it begins…

after the tree felling, the storing, sawing and splitting starts. The men did a great job and I an in awe of their skill and expertise in felling them more or less in the correct places. Inevitably there has been some collateral damage, but I have fixed some bits – two fence posts broken, or damaged have now been repaired which leaves two fences we removed for safety needing replacing. The major task however remains the logs which we more or less split fifty-fifty with the tree-fellers shredding the rest or going to log storage to be resold.

We now have eight pallets filled with logs of all shapes and sizes.

These will be longer term storage to be tackled as we need them so they can start their maturity process now and remain here through the winter.

The rest still in the wild flower meadow will be sawn and split and stored in these innovative wooden crates which we got from the local feed supplier. They are open to the air and occupying “dead” ground behind the barn which we cannot do much with.

Each on is more or less a cubic metre. Overall, if we use the fire continuously we have probably got three years supply of split logs, which is not bad going. All we need now is a supply of trees to keep our usage and supply under control.