Jan, is that the Molle boiler? Top fed, but I seem to remember they used to make them blue?
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Tom you could always partially burn the wood to dry it out. Chunk to a bigger size and burn it to brands.
Or make big charcoal chunks and wet it like Kristijan does.
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Finally I found a picture that is a good reference.
Two weeks ago, scooping my way into the wellhouse.
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Thanks Bruce it was several years ago we had so much snow here.
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Today we had a little storm. Here are the results so far. Work to be done.
Some of them knacked about 6/7 meters above ground.
Lots of rain last days and with a little wind this the result.
And that was during the day, who knows what we find tomorrow.
If the wind was a little more to the west instead of south west the waves would be six foot or more.
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Joep, I’m trying to find the not like button. This usually happens to me when wood storages are already full 
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Well, the landplot loses her charm this way. Conifers are 25 years old. You know the saying about big trees? The same in every language.
The good thing is, I need the wood. We will see tomorrow….
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Find the rest! It came from 6 m higher!!!
Enough for next heating season. To bad, some big ones came down. Not on the cabin.
And the rest of Europe? I heart the hart was in London?
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Is it really cloudy there a lot? It looks like you have several specimens that decided horizontal was a better position for growth. On the bright side the conifers are thinning themselves, and you have a new water feature… I can’t wait to see what it looks like with a fountain pump. 
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Actually it was quite sunny. The next storm on sunday was very rainy. Cant believe what is coming out of the ground today.
One is enough 
Concrete is doesnt let water trough!!!
And gethering cooler
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Hi Joep, I hope you do not have too much damage and that you are well, you have diligent hands, and you will quickly eliminate the consequences of the storm, we are with you …
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Thanks Tone, only one roof tile. The building company did a topjob. We are first in the polder and take it all before the other houses.
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Begin cutting the 54” cottonwood that the top 40 ft broke out of last fall
Cottonwood makes lousy firewood, hard to split, not much energy, and lots of ash. But it was an eyesore and will give me a good workout for months!
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Think about it this way, you can make a lot of ash for emergency insulation refurbishing! Or BS charcoal for cooking with.
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It was a real tree to cut down. 
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That’s bigger than anything I’ve ever felled and a slight lean opposite to the direction of the fall. I probably would have turned that little shed into a wooden pancake.
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I cheated. If you notice the guy doing the climbing and cutting is about a foot shorter and 150 lbs lighter than I am. Also my 50 YO son helped a lot with the limb cleanup. I cut up the big limbs, 14” - .
Too be sure the pump house didn’t get damaged he did lots of rigging to protect it while limbing. Then for the main event a 3/4” rope was connected through a pulley to my neighbors tree about 200’ away and his truck used to pull. It over.
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