Firewood time

Huge branches = lots of firewood.

Earlier this year, a large branch snapped off one of our silver maple trees. We sawed, split, and stacked it – firewood for a future winter! Yesterday, I climbed a ladder and sawed off the rest of the branch, which was 10-15′ long. It took an hour or more just to saw it into stove lengths, in part because this branch – just a branch, mind you – was thicker than our chainsaw bar. At one point I decided my Greenworks Pro electric saw (which is awesome, by the way) was just not cutting it. (Sorry, bad pun.) So I pulled out my trusty Stihl 026, our only remaining gas-powered tool. It is more than thirty years old, but still going strong!

My Apple Watch, being on my left wrist, was barely an inch from the chainsaw engine. Apple decided it was rather loud!

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Author: dfkotz

David Kotz is an outdoor enthusiast, traveller, husband, and father of three. He is also a Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College.

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  1. Heck yeah! I love our little electric Stihl – I’ve bucked fallen trees almost twice its bar length. But sometimes, as the gearheads say, there’s no replacement for displacement, and the big ol’ two stroke needs to come out.

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