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Philip d

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Got mostly poplar today,1 load tomorrow and I'll be out of the woods for this year. Neighbour is hour to help block it up. We're going to use his palate fork lift them waist high and each take an end and block it up to the centre. Supposed to get 2' of snow next week starting Monday and it's only been frozen here since Tuesday so it was a short window after the mud we had.
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Looks real good. I understand your time constraints trying to operate a dairy farm, and work the wood cutting time in.
We also had those constraints and operate a sugarbush, to boot. Need to cut lots of wood. The uncles sold off the registered holstein dairy heard back in the mid 90s and now grow alfalfa hay, beans and corn.
I'm retired and and not involved in the farm operations and enjoy cutting wood when I only need to wear jeans and a T shirt. My house has been heasted since built in 71 with wood .I burn, give or take, 13-14 cord per year to heat house and shop.
There used to be a lot of white birch around here, but it is dieing off. Still a lot of popular, but it isn't the best of wood, but makes heat. I mix it in with the other hardwoods that I cut.
Loren
 
Yes I hope to get to slow down a bit and enjoy a few more things in life down the road than we get to now as well. Things get pretty busy but it gets done. It's nice in the woods on a nice day. I've been cutting by myself for our house and now just my mothers for @20 years now,often take @20 cord for both but we had a very mild winter last year and had some leftovers plus a neighbour is giving us some in exchange for topsoil they got from us a year ago so glad to only need another 10 this year.
 

Nothing wrong with "trash wood" like poplar, or "popple" as it's called here. I have lots of beaver cut logs to drag in this year. As long as you get it the first year it's still fair wood. Same for basswood, tulip, willow, soft maple, birch in it's variations, thorn apple, elm, etc. Yeah, I'd love to have nothing but Ironwood (Hop Hornbeam) to burn but it makes no sense to cut living trees when theres dead wood or trash wood to take. You use a little more, it's true, but it all burns.
 
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