A nice reasonably cold Saturday! Cold enough to cut wood, warm enough that it is not unpleasant. I had cut a number of loads over the past few weeks, but it has been so warm and the ground still wet enough that I could not get it out of the land near the creek. With temperatures in the 20’s for a high the ground is stiff enough I could go in with the tractor and dump trailer. Each load is equivalent to a pickup load. I don’t know how a pickup load relates to a cord, but I assume it is close. One year I did 22 loads with the dump trailer, most years I am closer to 10. I actually have enough wood to last for a couple of years, even when I am supplying Earl and my daughter.
I can’t say that I actually heat with wood. I burn wood to raise the temperature in the house. I depend on the central heating system to ensure the house stays at least in the sixties. I am too lazy to get up in the middle of the night to feed the stove which means the heater comes on after midnight until I get a fire built the next morning. The heater also comes on when I am at work. In years like this when the temperatures are very mild it does not take much wood to heat the house. Most days the heater comes on only a couple of times during a 24 hour period. The rest of the time the wood stove keeps the house in the low 70's.
My house is set up to heat with wood. I have a Wonderwood stove in the basement. There is a hole in the ceiling above the stove that allows the heat to go to the main level of the house. I spend a lot of time in the basement. My computer is in the basement, as well as the bedroom where my wife and I sleep. The dogs and cats love it when the stove is going and I let them in. I have thought about getting an outside wood stove, but I do so love the direct heat of the stove.
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