How much wood could a woodchuck chuck...

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck....?
We felt like woodchucks over the weekend as we continued to tackle our piles of uncut firewood for next year.
For the third year in a row, we have received our supply of wood for next year in 8 foot lengths, two dump-trucks deep!
Jim and Sue Armstrong and I share our heating supply in a unique way each year.
Until a few years ago Jim did not burn wood for heat, but he did bring me my wood over the course of the year by the half-ton load.
Then he decided to start burning wood and for one year we travelled out to different places to cut and load the wood by the half-ton load.
Then he got the idea of bringing it in from the woods in big trucks. But the dilemma lay in where would we dump it before cutting it up and splitting it.
He and Sue have too small of a yard and my back yard is fenced in by a garage and wood shed.
So he asked his mom if we could use her yard. Thankfully she said yes and now every year at this time we spend quite a bit of our free time working at the pile.
Jim cuts it to stove length, Sue stands it up and I split it with an axe. Sue and I then "chuck" it onto the split pile before we haul it to my wood shed which holds enough wood for both our houses for one winter.
They do not have room for the wood in their yard so they pick up wood from my shed as they need it.
We have more than half the wood cut up now, and about 1/4 of it split. A few more weekends and it will all be done, hauled and put away for next year.
–Until then,
Ken