But while we’re on the subject of God wood, I read something claiming that the Biblical story of God creating Eve out of Adam’s “rib” is based on a dubious translation. Apparently some people suspect that in the original myth, it was Adam’s baculum, or penis bone — a bone that some mammals have, but humans lack. If correct, this interpretation implies that God initially created Adam with a permanently stiff phallus. Combine that with the statement that Adam was created in God’s own image, and what do you conclude?
Face cords here are starting at 50 bucks…so you do the math.
Each winter we see more wood furnaces are being bought and used. We’d like one too. We had an add on at our other house but we cant fit it into our budget.
So much warmer than regular furnaces and a constant heat. We used to get it so warm either you wore shorts in the house or kept some windows open…loved it!
I was about to order some firewood ($180/cord, delivered & dumped). But last week the power company came down the street trimming and cutting trees that might damage wires. So I now have a surfeit of ash and oak, much of it dry (from dead trees). Trimming & stacking are now about half complete.
We used to do 6 cords of wood a year. Would actually get about half hard wood so it would burn longer.
They would dump it in the drive, then I would stack it in the bucket of our little tractor (couldn’t really scoop it) drive it around the side of the house, dump stack. Rinse and repeat. It was a long, long process.
We ended up replacing the wood stove with a propane one. Yeah, a wood stove has it’s appeal. But as a primary source of heat, it gets old. Dusty dirty mess. And the propane one has a thermostat.
We used to have a wood stove when I was a kid. Hated, hated, hated it!! I will never have anything to do with wood stoves again. Give me natural gas any day.
Well… I suspect that means “large sections of trees are yours if you want to come get them, cut them, split them and stack season them for a couple of years” free firewood is available in your area.
Round here, the forestry fire guys thin out the forest, and leave big piles of rounds or logs. You can get a permit to “harvest” the wood, with some restrictions, for free on state land. I got lots of wood, and enjoy working on cool fall days running the log splitter and stacking wood. I try to keep a stack of rounds for splitting when I want to get off the couch.
Several years ago, after a big fire, people were thinning out their properties and were giving rounds away like crazy. I’m still burning that stuff! The panic has since died down.
Hardwood around here is fairly expensive. I can usually get a cord of unseasoned wood for around $200.00 and that takes a day or three to stack (longer than it used to). Seasoned wood runs, I think, anywhere from $250 to $350/cord. Sometimes delivery is included, sometimes it’s not.
I’ll probably go through 1/2-1 cord in a winter, depending on how cold it gets and how expensive oil is. Plus whatever interesting pieces of wood I grab out of the pile for use on the lathe.
As a young man I thoroughly enjoyed splitting wood with a sledge and a wedge. Now I wouldn’t dream of it. I don’t burn much wood anymore, mostly in my pizza oven instead of indoors. Around here it’s usually double the price to get them to stack it, and one time they just refused, said they have a great price but they won’t bother with the stacking. I kind of recall the low price wasn’t worth it.
The care and feeding. Mainly the cutting and chopping and hauling of the wood. My brother and I both hated it. Now, ironically, my mother has a fireplace and my brother is the one who likes to get it going.
