First trip to the Fifty Acre Wood this year, I usually don't get to visit this early in the new year. While I was out in San Jacinto County, if felt like a good time to detour to Cold Springs to pay property taxes. It was a beautiful day to be out on the road or working the land, mid-forty degrees and not a cloud in the sunny sky.
I had some trees that had been felled and sitting on the ground for a few months and with temperatures as cold as they've been, I thought this would be a good activity to chop up those trees into firewood size logs and take them home. It also gets them out of the mowing lane.
Once I arrived, as I always do, I jumped started the tractor to get it going and warmed up so I could use it later. I then got my tree cutting tools and headed to the felled tress and proceeded to start cutting them into fire logs. After about two hours of cutting wood, it was hard oak wood, my chain had dulled out and I had enough to fill my truck up with two loads of logs for splitting. I would not be splitting this wood by hand it was too hard, so I left it to dry out and will probably rent a log splitter to split them.
The rest of the day I spent on the tractor clearing brush from the eventual barn area, that is until it ran out of gas. That was my que that my day was done.
