With the cost of energy skyrocketing this year I am going to burn more wood than what I normally do. I normally only burn the wood burner when the weather gets really cold. Here in Ohio, USA, that's normally Jan, Feb and early March. I have electric base board heat and I use it in Nov. and Dec. They are saying that gas and oil for heating will be at least $100 a month more expensive this winter. So I am laying in a good supply of wood. The firewood that I am cutting is already dead, so it isn't like I am cutting down forests or anything. Also my neighbor who is a farmer has cleared out a bunch of fence rows and he has a huge pile of logs and trees that he isn't using for anything. And he told me to help myself! Ya gotta love a neighbor like that! What do other people heat with and how much more expensive is it supposed to be this winter?
What a nice neighbor! We use oil and wood to heat our home. We have 2 cords of wood delivered in the fall. I usually scavenge any wood I can find through the rest of the year ... fallen branches, dead trees, any wood friends or neighbors might not need. Last fall a neighbor had a mature maple come down, and since they don't burn wood they gave it to us. The hedgerows in my area are made up mostly of Buckthorn, which are not a good tree to work with ... small and thorny and so they are usually burned out in the field.
Mild winter here, but we use oil or wood for heat. With our milder climate we use less than a cord of wood a year, and buy two cords of wood every other year. We also manage to salvage some wood every year. This is the Evergreen State so fir trees are weeds as well as timber products. The rug heaters keep the floors warm and although they are electric make it comfortable to keep the temperature turned down on the thermostat. The rug heaters were one of our best buys despite their cost, but I love wood heat.
