“Have all your firewood cut and split by the Fourth of July,” the old-timers say. That sounds good in theory, but in actual practice, we are doing well to get the wood cut and split a week before we ...

Stacking firewood is pleasant work. It’s quiet and even contemplative. The hard and sometimes dangerous work of felling trees and bucking them with a chainsaw is done. The laborious splitting by hand ...

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