Spring, when will you arrive?

Old Man Winter will you please pack your bags and head south?  I have spring things to do and it is way too cold and snowy to do them.  But the main reason, I am running out of dry wood for heat.  Since I don’t have a back-up heat source, I need the outside temperature to warm up.

But I did notice this huge log, I mean huge in girth log that I’m not sure when it was cut, so it must be dry wood, though at the moment it is frozen in place.  The girth is much larger than my saw blade.  I can only think of two options:  A) call someone who has a larger saw to cut this baby up, or B) try it myself.  

Well of course I was going to try it myself.  I wasn’t sure how it would work, but given the sunny afternoon but too cold and windy to prune, I gave myself a tank of gas to see what I could accomplish.  Let me restate that I really wasn’t sure how to tackle this, another item that should have been learned sometime – how to effectively use a chainsaw.

I didn't quite get a "before" shot, but this is pretty close.

Did I mention that it is a good sized piece of wood?  I finally figured out that using a combination of chainsaw, wedges and splitting maul, things progressed rather quickly.  

 

And this is all that remains for another day.

Not bad for a couple of hours of work.  This wood should last me another week.  Will the temperature finally warm up by then?

 

At least it has been sunny the last few days and extremely windy.  Loads of power!!