This is a badge bit (
BB) that is part of the
PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in
woodland care.
This project will be to split and stack dead standing
wood as
firewood.
You will need to stack at least one half of a face cord, which is 4 feet long by 4 feet tall for the length of the firewood you are cutting.
You can see how to drop a dead tree from the
PEP BB's with a hand saw
here or with a chainsaw
here.
Firewood can help power a
rocket mass heater to heat your home or a rocket
oven to cook food and is useful for many other things!
Paul has a great
thread for
Safer ways of manually chopping firewood
This
video shows a quick process from start to finish and briefly talks about selecting the type of wood, shows it being cut, hauled away, and stacked.
Here are some videos from Paul's thread above about easier and safer ways to chop firewood.
This video has a lot of good tips for stacking firewood such as cutting your wood the same length and laying it on level wood pieces to get it off the ground to keep it dry and from rotting. Do not cover the logs. The logs need air movement and sunlight.
Be safe when using hand tools and using chainsaws, be aware of your surroundings, work at your own risk, and enjoy
cutting firewood!
All of the wood must be about 15.5 inches long. Nothing is allowed to be shorter than 15 inches and nothing longer than 16 inches.
To get certified for this BB, post the following pics.
- Your dead standing wood you are starting with
- The wood cut
- starting the stack (and it is clear that the wood is all about 15 to 16 inches long)
- the stack about 2/3 done (still clear that all of the wood is all about 15 to 16 inches long)
- the completed stack (still clear that all of the wood is all about 15 to 16 inches long)