8 cubic meter firewood

Last weekend we, Johan and I, went to Victor's place in Stony Plain to chop firewood. He has a mountain of logs, Black and White Poplar to be cut and chopped into firewood. "Come help and take a truckload home" he said. I was thinking he meant my F150-box. It turned out he had rented a big trailer (4x2x0.8 m3) and that was a load in his view. We ended up with a trailer full, my 6.5 feet box full and his 8 feet box half full. All in all that is about 8 m3 firewood. We did not split it by hand, lucky us, but we had rented a log splitter, still a lot of work as we nicely stacked the splitted logs into the trailer instead of throwing them in; so you end up with a lot more firewood. Over the whole weekend we filled 5 trailers and that is a lot of firewood. At the end of day one, and 3 loads, I had a pretty sore back and Johan's leg muscles were painful too. Day 2 had a slow start but we managed to produce another 2 loads, I hardly could bent over to pick up the logs and Johan's legs were aching too. But we did not complain, tough guys as we are, right. And the fun part is; we do not have a fireplace inside nor is our woodstove installed.
And by the way, in Holland they make wooden shoes out of poplar.