We are accustomed to closing the house for a few weeks or months while we go on holiday. Under those circumstances, things can remain the same, more or less.
Getting ready to move away from the house for a year or more is like moving, but not at all like moving. Some things must be boxed. Some tasks must be completed before we leave. And some things can remain as they are.
Getting the wood split and into storage is a priority. There was a pile of pieces from a neighbour’s tree that were left for Nigel to move and cut into wood-stove sized pieces. A few days of work was essential to ensure that the wood remained usable for when we return.
Nigel thoroughly enjoys working with his Kubota. This was the perfect reason to spend a day with the machine. Those logs are very big.
Plenty of manual work was required to fit the log onto the splitter because it could not cut through the whole width in one slice. This particular log eventually split into six pieces, which then required further splitting to make them stove ready.
After carrying, splitting, and further splitting there was a row of stove-ready logs ready for storage. This array is from that large log.
The logs were stored in the wood shed. They’ll dry over the next year or two, and be ready for burning when we return.
This is an annual task, but this time we are storing the wood for a couple of years hence. It’s all work that had to be completed before we leave for the adventure west.
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