for my wood-strip canoe, I'm using poplar for a nice, pale colour. Unfortunately, the trees are still standing. After cutting them down and dragging them to a clearing (There's BIG ant hills in them thar woods), how do I go about splitting them into peices small enough to A) dry at a reasonable speed and B) go thru the saw-thing we're using to rip the wood?

Any other advice on wood-strip will be appreciated. The book I'm using as reference is Canoecraft, the only one I can find on the subject. Please don't ask me to buy or order any books, because I can't afford it and by the time the ordered book comes in, It'l be too late in the season to build the thing.

Thank you all for helping.

Anne G