When a tree was cut down last Autumn the wood was stashed between two trees, ready to be split in due course. Now that we have used up more than half of the wood delivered last year, we were ready to go..
The wood has been covered with a tarpaulin which we removed rather gingerly in case anything had taken up residence in the pile. In fact all that was there was a dead crow and, on the wood itself, some rather spectacular fungus.
David set about the task of splitting the logs with a vengeance while I raked some of the many leaves already covering the lawn. Some of the oak leaves in particular are huge..,
When David took a breather I tried my hand at splitting logs too but I was not very good at it!!
After several hours work, the original pile was gone and a new pile of pieces ready for the fire was left.
And so this evening we nursed our aching muscles by a nice warm fire..
Looks hard work. No safety gear? Wrong shirt??
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