Visions of future firewood

Some splitting, wood moving, lopping, and bow sawing took place this morning.  All of this glorious activity focused on creating future firewood.  We were cool outside on this fifth full day of summer. 

The bow saw took down two red maples that were dying back.  We'll add the wood to the splitting pile after some cutting. 

This red maple was already leaning a bit, which makes for easier cutting with the arm-powered bow saw.  Here's the tree shortly before the final cut that brought the whole thing down.

And here's the same trunk after the loud drop.  The brown of the interior wood sure is pretty.

Here's is a picture of the second tree just before it fell from the cutting point.  The big part of the trunk is still leaning on a larger tree for now, but should blow down this week. 

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