Heating with wood is great! The warmth radiating from a
woodstove can’t be beat. Heating with wood has more steps to it than other
fuels. Waiting for the truck to pull up with your choice of fuel, or if you are
connected to a grid paying that monthly bill for the natural gas that flows in,
is easy. We get personal with our wood at least 6 times before it’s burned.Picked up 10 face cords from a local supplier. Loaded it on a trailer there, unloaded it to our racks here. About once a week we haul it from the racks to the splitting area. Thoreau said that wood heats you twice. Once when you split it and again when you burn it. This is so true! Once split it’s hauled to a holding rack by the door for easy access.
We built a nifty wood rack by the woodstove so when it needs filling we chuck wood from the outside rack into the trailer then stack it in the inside rack. It thaws and dries nicely in that rack and we are set until the next time. Burning wood is as close to carbon neutral as you will get compared to other fuels. The carbon released when wood is burned was taken from the air by the tree while it was growing. Sure, the logging process and chainsaws are a bad source of carbon emissions but the fuel itself is clean.
Once our home is built and our solar system is in full production we can do better. Local trees felled with a battery powered chainsaw (I understand they are good now) then bucked with an electric chainsaw and split by hand or with our electric log splitter will be as close to neutral as I can get. Now if I just had a team of horses to haul the trees back to the house…
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