Our cottage had a wood-burning stove in the living room, used both for atmosphere and for quickly warming up the place after the cold nights. We also made almost nightly outdoor bonfires in the fire pit I built.
This required lots of wood. We also had tons of felled trees from when we had the space cleared for the cottage itself. And the guys who felled those trees used their chain saws to cut the trunks into manageable lengths. But in order to use them, they had to be split into quarters or smaller.
I was not one to do much manual labor, but I guess I rose to the occasion. I spent a few hours each morning splitting logs with an axe. Then I created a huge split-log pile behind the cottage. Soon there were so many split logs that I worried about fire hazard, so I arranged them in walls so that there was plenty of air around them. This became our “log fort”, and provided an endless supply of wood for all the years we were there… and much was still left when we sold the place!
