Chopping and stacking firewood

An unexciting, but very necessary task, is the constant replenishment of firewood.

We have a lot of wood stacked around the place from two collapsed buildings. It's time some of it was sorted out and made useable.

This is last year's firewood pile; A half used, untidy mess, threatening to collapse forward.

This is a stack of broken or partly rotten wood that's good for nothing except burning. Last week, this stack was twice the size it is now. This stack stands at the end of the firewood pile and it just seemed and ideal opportunity to sort them out together.

So, the first step, last week, was to start sawing it into useable fireplace length "logs". Here's the mound that was created. Why us it that tidying jobs always make things untidier first?

And here's the next lot ready to be cut. It's stacked so that a chainsaw can chomp thru lots of long thin pieces of wood in one go.

Here's the resulting cleared area between the wood pile and the stack. All ready for restacking. 

It's growing...

Yep, it's mostly small sh###y stuff that won't be the most efficient for heating, but it'll burn, it's got to go somewhere, so it might as well gives us some heat while it does.

Move chop stack, move chop stack. Not the most exciting job on the farm.