Cutting And Splitting Firewood For My Tiny House On Wheels

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10 years ago
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We had some snow coming followed by freezing rain and then a severe drop in temperatures so I cut a bunch of fire wood and brought it up to the porch of my tiny house on wheels.

I wanted to be prepared and have a supply of wood right up by the house in case the weather took a bad turn and dumped a lot of snow on us.

I found an old dead standing tree not far away from the tiny house in the woods. I first cut it up with my old trusty Homelite chain saw and then used my $5 garage sale hand cart to haul all the wood over to the tiny house.

The smaller logs and branches went right on the porch directly.

The larger logs needed to be split so I brought them over to the power log splitter that I had restored this past summer. This was an old log splitter I got for free. I had put new boards on the base and got a HF gas engine nearly for free and mounted it to the log splitter. It works well but it needs a tensioner pully for more power.

I split all the larger logs comfortably with the log splitter. When I first got this log splitter I was not sure that I actually needed one. But when you are nursing your health after being sick and need to split wood this is such a blessing. I sure did not have the energy to split logs with an ax today.

I got a nice sized pile of logs split and stacked by my tiny house porch by the time it started to snow heavily.

I figure this is about a week of burning in my super efficient tiny home wood stove.

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