Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

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Thursday, May 1, 2025

Splitting Big Rounds

I’ve been forced to up my game, using Cold Smoke beer for size comparisons. A single can of beer doesn’t tell the tale properly when it comes to revealing the size of the rounds of firewood in the back of my truck. So instead (as witnessed by the first two photographs below), I used an eight-pack for reference.

The rounds of wood came from a dead fir we dropped onto the road near my cabin last weekend. We experienced highly unsettled weather while felling and chunking the tree into sections. One minute, we would be in the midst of an outright blizzard; the next, blue skies would shoulder away the storm and permit sunshine to brighten the valley notch. These Montana-style meteorological alternations went on for the entire afternoon.

I hauled a load of rounds home and am now in the process of splitting them by hand—which may qualify as work, but I enjoy it absolutely.

Splitting Rounds

Rounds and Beer in My Truck

Sunshine (One Minute)

Snow (The Next)  

—Mitchell Hegman

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