Splitting Siberian Elms

 

We are splitting the enormous Siberian Elm logs for next winter's wood, from two felled and fading trees here. Luckily the wood is quite easy to split with a log splitter except for it's size, and snaps apart quickly. Four of us split about a third the wood; will split a third more for our two houses and give away the rest. Meanwhile, Christian and Leif are hand splitting an enormous fallen pine tree in the upper field for fire pit burning.

All bark from larger logs has been peeled off and stacked by the stream to erode since burning it produces too much smoke. The fire pit wood is stored in the small animal barn now.