New haul of green wood

Today I cut and hauled 3 carloads of wood from a neighbors house. They took down a beech and a locust this week and left some for me. Well, they left a 10 foot trunk section of each, and they were each 20"+ in diameter. I took my chainsaw, and spent most of the afternoon cutting, loading, hauling, unloading, and cutting some more. I also figured it wouldn't be very nice to leave a 4 inch bed of shavings on their lawn, so I cleaned that up with a rake, leaf bags and shop-vac. I took the shavings home to line a path to the woodpile, and it wound up being 2 leaf bags full plus 4 times of filling the 16 gallon shop-vac.

I put the wood together with the massive pile of maple that I got last week and put a tarp over it (actually it took 2 tarps) to slow the drying. I'm not patient enough to put sealer on all of it, so I'll deal with the checking and rough-turn as much as I can as soon as I can. So far I've not had any trouble taking checked logs that have sat for a while and just cutting off the ends. I'll cross my fingers for continued luck.