A three-person-and-one-dog project
How many warm bodies
does it take for optimal efficiency on clearing
day? I was
going to say three for the first phase (Mark felling, me and B.J.
clearing brush), then one for the second phase (B.J. sawing logs into
firewood).
But pictorial evidence
suggests otherwise. Clearly phase two also benefits from a dog
dragging away logs to chew on them. If we were able to train Lucy
to carry firewood into
the pile instead of away from it, we'd use about 5% less wood over the
course of each year.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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We used to have a dog who would do the same thing, except he wouldn't just chew the logs--he'd shred them! We'd end up with little piles of wood chips all over the yard. Of course, we couldn't get him to 'play beaver' where we needed mulch, either. Fortunately his teeth got duller as he got older, so it would take him longer to get through a log. The question is, is a 5% loss rate worth the entertainment value? 
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