Collecting firewood tomorrow
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (326498)
Rockingham, Australia
March 26, 2017 7:00am CST
Tomorrow we are busy again! That makes three days in a row I think. Vince's brother and his wife are coming out to see us and we're taking advantage of the extra hands to cut down a dead jarrah tree. Once it is down we'll saw it up, load it in the trailer and add it to our woodshed.
Hopefully we won't need to touch it until the winter of 2018 by which time it will have dried out nicely. The chainsaw is sharpened and ready to go and we've taken the crate of the trailer. The tree itself is on our boundary fence just a short distance from the house.
The photo shows a load of wood from a similar activity a few years ago.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
26 Mar 17
Wow, such an unusual color - I've never seen wood like that.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
26 Mar 17
@JudyEv I would feel bad burning such pretty wood!
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@JudyEv (326498)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill You don't feel so bad about burning the wood if you're freezing cold! 
@JudyEv (326498)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Mar 17
@JohnRoberts said that too! It makes lovely reddish furniture but loses some of its redness as it dries.
@allknowing (130240)
• India
26 Mar 17
That will be a lot of work. Is that wood used for your fireplace or do you use it to cook. There are still people here who use firewood for cooking.
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@allknowing (130240)
• India
26 Mar 17
@JudyEv Mother started her life using firewood but later had gas. Her kids started better.
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@JudyEv (326498)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Mar 17
@allknowing Same in our families.
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@JudyEv (326498)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Mar 17
Furniture from it turns out quite red too. It burns well with not too much ash.
@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
26 Mar 17
that's a good activity, even in our rural village, we also collect firewood, we used it to cook in the mud stove.
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
26 Mar 17
Good luck in this activity of yours. Sounds taxing.
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
26 Mar 17
@JudyEv would it be an option not to collect firewood?
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@JudyEv (326498)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Mar 17
@allen0187 We can buy it but it is very expensive. It's okay really. I'm sure it is good for us.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
27 Mar 17
You are courageous. My father did this for heating his house until he decided that a gas heater would be better for him. I would have enough woods to heat my house with it, but they are far from my home and I sell fuelwood cutting. I am not sure that with the time needed to cut it, to stock it in the wood first then in another place to make it drying and to bring it back to my home later, I would do a lot of savings.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
26 Mar 17
Wow, your visitors are not coming to relax with you! It is a great idea to have visitors come to help out, we have a visitor too at present but our visitors tend to be as old as we are, what we need are visitors with strong arms and a taste for hard work. Happy sawing instead of jawing?
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
27 Mar 17
@JudyEv You are blessed with good friends and sharing the harder jobs does help as we get older. We are not so lucky with people to help us as we are fairly new here and so far we have had to pay people to do the occasionally difficult job.
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@JudyEv (326498)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Mar 17
There will be some jawing as well. We often help each other out with big chores and have had some great times laying paving, putting up workshops, etc. It's not so easy now we're older.
We often help each other out with big chores and have had some great times laying paving, putting up workshops, etc. It's not so easy now we're older.@JudyEv (326498)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Mar 17
@41CombedaleRoad It can take a long time before you are accepted in an area. These are relatives we have called on which is a bit different.
@Tampa_girl7 (49183)
• United States
26 Mar 17
We need to clear out some fallen branches and small trees from our land too.
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@Tampa_girl7 (49183)
• United States
27 Mar 17
@JudyEv unless there is a burn ban we can burn whenever we like.
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@JudyEv (326498)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Mar 17
@Tampa_girl7 We are not allowed to burn between sometime in perhaps October/November (it varies) and sometime in May.
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
28 Mar 17
@JudyEv I hadnt thought of that, but makes sense
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@JudyEv (326498)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Mar 17
I guess one day we'll have to convert too but it is lovely sitting in front of the fire on a cold night. This wood will warm us several times - bringing it in, chopping it up, lugging it to the house and finally watching it burn.
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@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
26 Mar 17
When I lived in CT, a couple of large trees in our yard came down during a bad storm, so we invited some friends with chainsaws over, got the trees all cut up and divvied up all the wood for winter. It was a fun time for everyone and we all stayed very warm that winter!
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@CRK109 (14558)
• United States
27 Mar 17
@JudyEv Yes, I know the feeling. The last time Britt and I had to stack wood, it felt like it took forever and our bones screamed at us for days! lol Still, it's worth it when you're sitting in front of a roaring fire on a cold winter's night!
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
26 Mar 17
The wood appears pink. Does that change once dried out?
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@snowy22315 (170798)
• United States
27 Mar 17
Your wood looks red..Is that the real color or just the light and the way the pictue is shot?
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
27 Mar 17
That reminds me of the big gum tree in the front garden of other house that we had to cut down ..
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@JudyEv (326498)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Mar 17
Some of the gum trees are known as 'widow-makers' because of their habit of dropping big branches unexpectedly.
@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
27 Mar 17
That tree looks like it would be a long burning tree! A nice lot of wood there!
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