Firewood

One of our highest priorities in the fall is to lay in enough firewood to take us through the winter.  I head out on the high tides to look for good beach logs to bring back to the lodge.  Our woodshed is located close enough to the water that we can float them up pretty close at high tide.  That minimizes the distance we have to carry those heavy rounds after we cut them!

Floating the logs up to the woodshed at high tide

Next step--cutting them into rounds

Sorted by type--red cedar closest to the shed, then yellow cedar, hemlock, and spruce

There are plenty of logs to work on!

I cut the logs closest to the woodshed, then try to float the next logs closer before cutting.

I found this giant spruce floating along a rocky shore one day, but the waves were too large to get to it.  I was able to go back the next day when it was calmer and pull the log off the beach without even getting out of the skiff.  There is a lot of wood in this monster!

I don't know why my back gets sore after a full day of cutting and carrying firewood!

Sometimes Jen comes out to offer helpful suggestions.

Once she came out and split a piece!

We've just about run out of places to stack wood, so will cut more later in the season (if the snow doesn't bury the logs too deep!)  We've got more than enough wood now to last the whole winter.