Split and stacked more wood. Oh my aching back!
A chap called Fawlty (no, really, only it’s spelled slightly differently) came to the other farmhouse today to cover the outbuilding roof with a tarpaulin. I’m not sure if he had an assistant called Manuel or not. Que?
I also cleared some fallen branches at the corner of the fence near the pond, then we had a barbecue using our home-made charcoal which worked very well! We may be able to sell bags of it to passing cyclists from the local campsite. (There’s a large campsite not far away, frequented by Dutch, Belgians, Germans and English).
Only three Colorado Beetles today (there were none yesterday).
I also repaired the splitting maul which I managed to break yesterday; the handle snapped off just below the head. My excuse is, it was pretty damaged in that area before I started using it! (And the axe will probably follow suit shortly, there’s not much wood in the socket of the axe head). I simply cut off the damaged piece of the handle and shaped it to fit the head of the maul. (I can recommend the “Piranha”, which is a disc of coarse sandpaper which fits on an angle grinder). I then inserted a large diameter screw into the end of the handle to expand the wood in order to grip the head of the maul securely. The maul, axe, and my own small axe were then sharpened, again using the angle grinder. Ready for the next batch of wood! Actually this will probably be the large oak tree which was felled by this week’s tornado.