It's been a busy weekend. On Friday the owner of the empty section next door came by to let us know that the council have asked them to clear the section due to fire risk. It will be cleared in about a month, and the large Douglas Fir trees were also going to come down. Being the enterprising people we are, we asked if we could fell the trees prior to the section being cleared and claim the firewood. The owner had no problem with this, so we had a chat to the neighbours on the other side and came up with a deal for us to take 2 of the trees and them to take the other 2.
So we spent our Saturday felling the trees, removing the limbs (and stacking them tidily for removal - one of the conditions of us taking the firewood), then cutting to size all the rings, splitting the firewood, and throwing it over the fence. And then stacking it all up!
We have collected all of our firewood for winter 2009 from various places that shall remain un-named for reasons of firewood-stash-preservation!
We now have around 13 cubic metres of firewood, which should see us through with some left over. We are both very happy about this, as it means we might stop smelling like pine gum some time before winter starts. Also if we collect any more firewood we're going to have to find a new place to stack it - the clothesline is already being compromised!
The photo below is of the "outside stash" - we also have a nice big pile in the garage.
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