1st night of burning wood in the 2021 Fall season.

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8. Red oak and ash

The last of the ash are dying from emerald ash borer, so just a few of those. Mostly red oak. I’ve got 80 acres of timber, so I usually cut and split the easy stuff. This year, however, I spent a lot of time cleaning up after the derecho in August of last year.

The derecho left some pretty big pieces lying on the ground. Manhandling a 250 pound round of red oak is really hard on my seventy plus year old body. I do have a log lift on my splitter. That helps a lot. -B