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Over the weekend, I was at La's house. We went out to get wood. On 30, towards Everett, there is a we-buy-lumber place that cuts off the butt ends of timber logs and leaves them in a pile for determined souls to heft onto pickup trucks and take away to burn. Now, these are timber logs, so the butt ends are kind of large. 2' is on the small end of the diameters you're working with. They're timber logs so they're freshly cut and soaking wet (and thus extra-heavy, for the not-familiar-with-firewood folks among the lexience). Length varies but is typically between 6" and 3'. These are not small pieces of wood nor are they lightweight pieces of wood. They are free pieces of wood and they're very truck-accessable, which is important because we can't lift or carry any of them.

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