Trimming Time

For the last month we have been eking out bits of time to make up dry, full sized logs into 16 inch pieces, splitting to manageable sizes and wrapped into bundles during the in-betweens of the hay season and regular chores. It has been a battle since we do not have electricity across the river where the logs are, and no logs on this side of the river where the wrapper is. The finished bundles that are usually stored inside the garage where there is a comfortable place to load the pickup does not have a high enough doorway to get the bigger loads that we have been hauling during ‘this unprecedented time’.

We have been looking for those small time savings in order to keep the firewood project running during this crunch.

A couple of times already, we have moved the main herd out of our way by letting them graze in the far, far field. That saves the amount of time needed to move them out of the working area while cutting and splitting. We can also have all the equipment out near the wood pile without fear that some critter will destroy it by scratching their thick necks or dropping poop piles in our way.

We have been staging the loaded cribs in the bull barn, three and four at a time while we have the tractor out of the other farm duties and while it has the front end loader tines hooked up. We have not been bothering to put any pallets of bundles into the garage at all but many times are wrapping and directly loading the pickup out in the barn.

All of our time saving measures so far have kept us stocked enough for weekly deliveries, but I have not yet been able to make up the wood needed to carry us through the winter delivery schedule or our own personal firewood for the house. Now looking for a way to turn back time in order to get it all done.

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