Bridgewood pictures

See also the Bridgewood weblog posts for more about the wood.

Wood mouse
A wood mouse in a pile of logs in the Glade. It was quite like a field mouse or even a house mouse, and was longer than it looks like from this angle.

Trolley cart
Briefly described in this weblog post.

"Glider" cart and wood pile
From this weblog post: [more...]

Tanos, Chainsaw, Bridgewood
Me here.

Felled tree
Still showing the shape of the crown laid out on the ground after the branches have been cut off.

Tree cross section
Cross section of a recently felled poplar tree, about 12 inches in diameter. The central heartwood (which is largely inert), the surrounding sapwood (which transports water and nutrients), and bark are clearly visible. By counting the rings, this tree was about twenty years old.

Glade and logs
Logs and branches from several trees felled and then cut up. I'm working round the edge, felling the trees into the centre of the Glade or into the space left by the previous felling. The aim is to avoid felled trees getting tangled ("hung up") in standing trees, as the danger is the hung up tree falls on you when you want to fell the other one. If you don't clear up as go along, you end up with a giant version of the pick up sticks game. But since you have a chainsaw, that's not a big problem ...

October view
Taken in October, the same view as this picture in February and another in June. There's a special page that allows you to flip these pictures back and forth to see the changes.

Start of the wood stack
I've now started stacking two foot logs to dry for next year. I'm using corrugated iron sheeting to keep the rain out and some galvanised iron to keep them off the ground. Of the species growing in Bridgewood, ash is the best firewood ... but I'm not planning to fell any of the ash trees. However, I am felling a lot of the hazel understorey to clear and widen rides, and some of the hazel bushes have one or two decent trunks which should burn well.

June view
Taken in June, the same view as this picture in February. There's a special page that allows you to flip these two pictures back and forth to see the changes.

February view
Taken in February, the same view as this picture in June. There's a special page that allows you to flip these two pictures back and forth to see the changes.

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