Before/After Wood Chopping
I guess this is more after/before than before/after based on how Google Photos organized the two photos in this collage. Thus...On the bottom of this photo collage above, you can see a pile of wood that I harvested out of our backyard in it's mostly raw state. When the guys came to clear out some trees before we built in 2016, I think they left behind a bunch of these cut up chunks of trunk/branches in the yard. They're mostly Walnut trees with a few Maple pieces. I picked up this metal log holder from Menards and decided - because we now have a wood-burning fireplace - to pile the stuff up close to the screened porch. And, I'm glad I did. Because as I was collecting the pieces of wood from around the yard, one thing that was consistent: they were all wet. And by laying on the ground, they weren't able to dry out at all. But, a few weeks of laying in this rack, which is underneath the eave of our roof, and they've mostly dried ...