No reason not to put car to work and make the most of a trip.
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I thought it was farm out, maybe take an old motor bike and put some wider flat road tires on and some blade gides . or replace the tires with steel rollers for blade cutting stableity. first time i seen a motor bike ban saw mill. THINK i might take old fuel oil drum and cut a big door so i can scoop chunks out easy, and put a water jacket around the drum except the door. Since i need a bigger water jacket too hold heat longer at night, why not kill two birds with the same stone. my wood burner is in insulated section of gardge all ready for more water jacket. Raise it up too have room for fan and or radiator in bottom of wood storage drum. Probley dry damp chunked wood in day or two when needed.
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Well i havent had much time for chunking wood and i need a smaller motor pulley for my baler chunker, so i had too try out my slab wood splitter, and it seems too be much easyer than spliting mall on ground splitteing. the 4" by 14" wide slab of cotton wood i slamed on the wedge plate, and about 5 percent of the bigger slabs with knots, i finish pushing through the plate wedge with the sludge hammer end. The rest of the slabs broke just one swing at the wedge. And a few went half way through and i just push side ways on wedge too finish devideing.Did not take long too split about 100 pounds of wood ready too chunk. After splitting too the chunk size required, Any one could use a 3500 ford or chevy rear axel for a chunker no problem.
This chunking job is a perfect morning workout before routeen jobs.And getting paid back with wood gas and good health workout.
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@Jeff sayd he feels much more alive in winter, with all the wood stuff. I feel you brother, l havent felt this alive in a long time!
You can see why l havent been posting much…
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What a great place you live!
Be careful what you do to your body. You will feel all those pains again when you’re 50.
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Impressive
But I doubt that that is a sustainable energy source. Surely there are some trees at a higher elevation.
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I agree with Mike. Can’t you cut trees at the top of the hill and roll them down to the house?? Going to be a long winter if you plan on carrying all your fire wood. TomC
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Maybe he was scientifically proving that theory that using firewood heats you twice!
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You live in a wonderful place! Your words mean a lot to me and thank you for a nice holiday gift! 
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There was a bundle of 3 dead standing limetrees close to neighbours house and property, that l felt bad leting them rot over winter. Any machinery wuld ruin neighbours lawn.
The 2 bigest trunks were put aside for lumber while the less worthy parts were carryed about 100 yards uphill, about half a cord alltogether. That is a light wood, somewhere between spruce and cottonwood so that log only weighted about 80-100 pounds maybee. Sounds like hard work but l truely enjoyed it! Some people spend money on gyms, this is my kind of workout. The truth is even if l culd haul the logs away l might of decided to carry them anyway 
Been prepareing wood this whole week thugh. Clearing overgrown fealds and cleaning the woods of fallen/dead trees. Wife was a huge help allso, she learned to use a chainsaw and we made good progress together. I have a feeling she is starting to like the whole wood prepp buisness too 
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Althugh on sustainability, a log this size will heat my small house for well over a day. I tested this out yesterday. Thats not that bad concidering its a low quality wood. I wuldnt mind carrying one log evertly day at all… But ofcorse l agree with you guys, no point pushing the health limits, specialy if there exists better ways.
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seems like one of those photos looks like a nice road to DOW on… but what would I know I am lazy and like to let my equipment do the heavy lifting. Lol
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The dog looks big enough to do some pulling just hook um up to one of the old milk wagons they used to use to deliver around the village.
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Some manual labour is good as long it’s egonomic, I hurt my shoulder in my last work in just 6 months and it’s still not good after nearly 1.5 year.
Pity as I did a lot of achery before.
What breed is you dog Kristijan?
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Watch out , or you end up in charge of washing up and laundry
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JO, to late for that l am afraid
Jim, sorry for your injury. I too like archery.
The dog is a Bosnian Tornjak. Its used in Bosnia where shepards need to protect their big flocks of sheep from predators like wolfs and bears, but it is not a herding dog!
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And what boutiful land outlay you have there in the mountains.I bet that dog helps keep bears and big cat away from home somewhat.
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Bears are extremely rare and we dont have any big wild cats here but foxes, martins and now jackals are a serious threat to livestock. But yes, the dog does a good job keeping those away. He does take a toll of a occasional free range rabbit thugh…
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Nice dog!
I realy like those shepherd dogs.
I have a mix of Bucovina Shepherd Dog (which have same colours as you Tornjak) and Caucasian Shepherd Dog.
Is the Tornjak common in Slovenia?
There are also a shepherd dog, kraški ovčar from Slovenia but it’s seems to be a bit smaller.
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An interesting wood stove idea:
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