Free Firewood...A Wet Ohio Spring

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So it's been a while since my last post. In the spring I get busy with baseball and coaching and that tends to take up my time and energy.
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Spring in Ohio this year has been bizarre. The weather has brought us nothing but rain, rain, and more rain. The only one enjoying this spring has been our duck. She hangs out at her favorite puddle in our yard. The wet conditions have quashed any wood gathering activity...and even if I could procure firewood, I wouldn't have any where to put it as my wood shed is now surrounded by a moat that would swallow my truck if I ventured over that way.
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I have had one opportunity to get wood this spring and it came from a friend installing a new driveway. A very large, hard maple had to be removed and he was in need of the wood getting cut up and gone quick so the workers could get busy on the concrete. The big maple was right by the road and his driveway so mud wasn't an issue. I was able to get four truck loads of wood out of this score but as of today the wood is still on my driveway as I wait for my yard to dry. Things are still too wet to move the wood to the shed.
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This is me with my 346 XP cutting up some 2011 firewood! The owner is in the background with his dad's 35 ton Huskee Splitter. I cut, he split, we both lugged.


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Here I am running my big Dolmar 7900.


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Here is a nice load of wood. I got 4 truck loads and 1 small trailer load of this hard maple. Very nice firewood. All split!


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This was a very nice day of running my saws. My only problem is I have double work to do once the ground dries because I have to move the large pile of maple from my driveway over to the wood shed. My saws ran great after spending the winter moth-balled. This was also the first time I had the truck out this year and it too started right up and got to work.
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OWB