Labor Day fun!

My family has a tradition of hauling wood on Labor Day. Yes, this means that we cut the tree down, saw it into smaller pieces, and then load it into a truck to be chopped into smaller pieces once they get home. This is a busy job, but as you can see, everyone is expected to help out... at least for a little while.Yes, that is the oldest of the kids (Katie), supervising as the 2 youngest (Isaac and Addison) pick up the enormous piece of wood.

I would bet that each piece of wood weighs anywhere from 25-50 lbs. each. Some of the ones we did on the 2nd day were upwards of 150! Needless to say, my youngest brother with all the muscles got to load those! Katie, Bryce, Adam, and Makenli

Clint, of course, got the majority of time on the saw since this one was too big for any of the little kids to operate.

Yes, even I got into the act. I did what was called "limbing" which is where you cut the limbs of the trees to be cut. That way they are easier to load into the truck... they stack better.

This is Poppy giving each of the kids an opportunity to operate the chain saw by themselves. This is Seth... don't worry, it's a really little saw and doesn't do much damage to anything.

This was David's chance.

Then there was Bryce...

And finally there was Katie, but she really had to hurry because the hail was coming in quickly.

This was the tree that Poppy had to cut down. None of the saws that we had could handle how big it was so we ended up having to leave it for later... when the big guns could come get it. Isaac

We stopped at the look out point on our way down from the mountain. Anyway you "cut" it, that is a lot of wood for these little kids to haul!