another load ready to go - thankful for the four wheel drive when fully loaded and leaving greasy muddy sites like this

Bernie loads a bag of logs as well as his splitter into the Unimog.

Another early start on a saturday morning in January, waiting for the light

Some more work to do clearing some windblown elm trees

A few elms already logged up

A tricky dead elm in danger of crushing the garden fence as the adjacent one had, so needs to come down - but another tree blocking its felling path into the field - so going to use the capstan to "encourage" it down

Directional notch cut in the tree, so now taking up the strain on the capstan as the felling cut is made

Snagged as we thought, so capstan doing the work to get it down - and had enough power to snap the blocking tree whilst pulling the other one through and down

All safely down and logged ready for splitting

and where some of it ends up - this if one half of my woodshed which holds around 12 ton of logs - about 2 years worth of burning for me

Back to the farm again on another bright and frosty February morning to fell the remainder of the dead elms

winching again as they were all wanting to drop over (through) the fence

nylon rope initially, then changed to the manilla which was better

manilla rope being used on another six or so leaning dead elms, leaving the live ash trees in place

all down and logged up

quick bit of splitting but ran out of time after one load so had to leave rest for another weekend

another saturday morning, splitting some of the elm felled in previous weekends

luckily able to do the splitting in the farmers shed rather than out in the sleat

we seem to have collected 16 boxes of the elm in the last two weekends

another nice load

being delivered

then off to split some ash for a friend

and deliver some logs on top of a cliff next to a fishermans cottage on a bitterly cold and windy february day

one week later, and the sun is shining splitting outdoors again, this time with two splitters

two splitters, two people, two hours, about 5 cubic meters of logs for us and the farmer, who had already popped out for some and you can see the woodsmoke coming from the farmhouse behind

Bit wetter this weekend - just cut up some rounds and about to start another two splitter splitathon

Ran out of time due to chainsaw challenges, so just filled the trailer with around 2 tonnes of logs

another weekend, more logs to collect. Kids drying out wet gloves on the radiator (of a stationary engine...)

Long haired Jack shifting some logs up to the splitter using some Timber Tongs

both trailer and Log Rover loaded up with logs and bikes this week - perhaps I need to build a bike rack somewhere on the Log Rover?

A bit different this weekend - asked to remove 5 sycamores growing too closely to a steading about to be renovated