Cutting Firewood New Mexico Style

First with cutting wood (any where) get up early and get going!

What a sunrise!

 

After driving one hour. First stop to find dead trees.

You can only cut dead tress and you need a permit that is good for one year and a half of cord of wood each load.

Keep going!

Keep looking!

Finally a tree to cut!

This is our crazy Navajo friend AD!

The dead limbs you take off with an axe!

After theses pictures Mark did the cutting. This tree was 150 yards from the trailer. After this they decide no more then 100 feet back from the trailer.

So you set back and enjoy the scenery.

The load of wood! After 1 hour of driving, 4 hour of cutting and carrying it, and 7 stops to find wood to cut, and another hour to come home!

Some loads of wood will be sold to cover the cost and other loads will be giving away to those who need it but can't pay for it!

But you have to carry the wood. About 80 yards and through loose sand. Not as easy as back in PA. No tractor to skid out with, no log splitter. No big trees, the biggest one we cut was 14 inch in round.

Also you just walk out the back door back in PA.

 

Of course the next pictures are of the beautiful sunset that day!

Mark and AD have decide to go cut wood on Friday mornings for a while. Please pray for their safety as you think of it. Also another prayer request is to keep Marco and Leah in your prayers. They are our son and daughter-in-law.