In the storm on Monday night a tree outside our field blew
down. It was only last night the farmer
told me about it as I hadn’t been over there in the light on Tuesday. He said it was a large one and asked if we
wanted the wood for our log burners. We
jumped at the chance so this morning before we left for work, I dashed over
with my old phone to get a couple of photos.
He said it was big but I didn’t realise how big. It’s massive!
We’ll have our work cut out on this one.
The chainsaw won’t fit through its width, so it will have to be chopped
from each side. Just think how much wood
we will get from it which is free heating for winters to come. The chopped up wood can stay in the wood
store and season until we’re ready to use it.
Combined with the wood we’re going to have from trees we’re taking down
next year (and will replace with fruit etc trees elsewhere), we’ll have enough
wood for the next few winters easily.
That’s a great feeling, as even if the price of oil rockets, we’ll still
be warm. Our boiler can run the water
off the electricity instead of the oil if needed, so we’re covered for hot
water and heat.
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| Grace included for sizing |
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| It was just getting light as I took this, so not a great photo but you can make the length and girth of it |
The fact the tree has fell so close to our buildings and animals however is a bit worrying, so we will be sure to check what other things could fall or break and injure something or someone in the event of another storm.
When we get round to chopping this up, I'll do a blog post on it as I think it'll be a full weekend's work!
