This video shows the felling and processing of a couple red maple tree trunks into firewood after their tops had snapped off and fallen in storms. The trunks were the perfect size, and nice and straight making hand splitting a breeze.
Firewood production can be elaborate with lots of power equipment... but for most of us it's just a chainsaw, a splitting maul, and something to haul the wood ( a tractor, UTV or pickup truck).
Working by hand for an hour or two here and there on the weekends, it's easy to produce enough firewood to heat a typical home.
This hour and a half of productive recreation yielded enough firewood to heat our house for over a week.
Equipment used:
Stihl MS261C chainsaw
Ford 1700 compact tractor
Homemade 3 point hitch carryall
Clamp-on pallet forks
8lb Splitting maul