At this moment my husband and I are in our house in the Morvan (Burgundy, France). It is cold here, so we have to heat the house. We heat the house by burning wood in the stove.
In the Morvan, many houses in the countryside are heated by burning wood. That means that there must be a lot of wood to keep all the houses warm in the winter. In the following pictures, I show you what's going on with wood in the Morvan.
The trees must be cut down and then placed on large piles, ready to be removed.
I took these pictures last Sunday (yesterday), so there was no activity. That is, there was activity, but another. The sign says people are hunting in the forest (chasse en cours). Men hunt every weekend during the winter period. The sign is to warn people who want to walk in the forest.
During the week big trucks arrive to take the wood away to the sawmill. It is an imposing sight to see these big trucks maneuver.
There are very big sawmills in the Morvan, but also a lot of very small ones. Yesterday we passed a small one. You can see that there are no men at work. On Sunday's it is very quiet here in the Morvan.
Some forgotten planks in a corner.
Not all wood is fit for sawing. Some trees lie somewhere in a corner of the terrain and remain there until they are completely gone.
They plan ahead in the Morvan. Dozens of years in advance, they know which plot should be felled. Here you see a piece of land where the trees have been felled and where a few years ago young trees have been planted. They are very strict with the replanting plan.
Next, you see three pictures of the yards of our neighbors. They have large piles of wood stacked outside their houses.
The last pictures are of our own wood stock.
The delivery:
The stock, with a proud husband, the wood is inside the barn. This year we bought wood that is to be used over two years. Wood must be very dry before you can really use it. That is why we have so much wood, it is for this year and for the next two years.
So, as I already showed you, this is why all that work has been done:
This stove keeps us nice and warm in our old converted farmhouse (in French a fermette).
Have a nice (warm)day,
Clio