Or rather I should say our neighbour's friend. The deal was he would cut the trees and then could sell the wood. Seems that the initial thoughts of reaping about $30,000 through the sale has ended up closer to about $3,000 after the outlay on the equipment to cut it and the trailer to sell it, not to mention the time to cut the darn stuff up.
We were proud to be his first customer although half way through stacking it in the barn it didn't feel like such a good idea. They always say you get warm twice from firewood and this was no exception. It did seem very strange to be working up a sweat in 25+ degrees shifting wood for the winter. There was method in our madness. There was a huge rain cloud heading our way.
We managed to shift the lot in about 90 minutes which was pretty good going. We're now stocked ready for next winter and there's plenty of time for the wood to be drying out. We've got a "wet-back" on our wood burner so we'll heat our water as well as heat the house. Pretty neat eh. Local supplier of sustainable product to add to our energy efficient house!
Our wood came from here
MT hard at work
Tadaaaaa (I'd just like to point out that this pile is three layers deep - the picture is very deceiving!)
On the subject of wood and fires, this was the view out the back window the other day. I got quite a shock to see that the forestry block over the back was actually on fire. I called 111 (our emergency number) and was relieved to know that they were already on their way to put it out. We had helicopters too to check that there were no other outbreaks. It makes you realise how quickly forest fires spread. I was digging out my insurance policies, passports and other precious things to pack in case it got much closer to our very dry grass and bush. Luckily the wind was blowing the other way and the rural fire folks did a fantastic job and put it out very quickly.
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