Don’t you hate it when...

...people title their posts like this? I hate click bait and I hate crappy titles, so if you skipped reading this post I completely understand.

I always put in a lot of thought into my titles and sometimes the entire post is written before I have one. Please stop doing this! I promise I will never do it again.

Anyways, I was out in the woods today chainsawing, swamping, and chopping. We have had some really nice weather here in Northern Germany and we are getting visitors from the U.S. next week so I wanted to take care of this while I could.

It took me all day cutting and splitting but I got about a month's worth of firewood out of it which was really needed because with me being home all day we burn a lot of it.

Plus, in the fall my wife’s uncle cut three of his fingers off with a circular saw so our family stepped up and donated a trailer full of firewood and that ate up most of our reserves.

Today, I cut up a smaller tree and then I cut off 8 rounds from this ginormous pine. I would say 20 to 25-inch width, and that is pushing it for my cheapo chainsaw. I managed 9 rounds which turned into a large stack of firewood once split.

In the above picture you can see the size of one of those rounds here. It's sitting on my splitting stump and is about the same size, if not bigger.

What I lack with a cheapo chainsaw I more than makeup with this fine Fiskars X25 axe. I can easily split those large rounds with this bad boy and nothing feels better when you split one on the first swing.

These ones here were pretty knotty pines so I had to work a little harder than normal to get them split but it was easy work with the axe.

Here you can get a good idea of how big those rounds were.

Like I said in a previous post, these trees have been down for a few years now and are hanging off the ground so they are perfectly treated and ready to go in the fireplace as soon as they are split.

We rely mostly on wood to heat our house and even though the winters here are very mild, it is a really nice option to have. I am grateful we have an endless supply of wood right outside the back door.

Have a good week everyone!

-@balticbadger