Fire wood

With wood burning central heating we have to make sure we have a giant stock of logs. They take some years to dry, so we have to plan ahead. It is hard work cutting the trees down and then more hard work cutting it all up.

Chainsaws are dangerous things and I am too scared to touch them, even when turned off, but Doug is doing a heroic job of making sure we will be warm for years to come. We recently bought a saw horse with a chainsaw holder that makes it a bit easier and safer to cut logs to length at least.

This tree was getting dangerously close to the electricity wire that brings the supply in to the house, so had to be cut back quite drastically

Cutting it down isn't really the hard work bit (though the dangerous bit) it is the tidy up of all the branches afterwards that is most work

These ones will be cut to length to suit the fire in the saw horse at some point

I don't use the chainsaw but I do use the hedge trimmer. It is quite scary too but only works with both hands on it, so at least you are unlikely to get your own fingers - maybe a leg though.