Thanks Zog, It has been alot of work. I am 5-7 yrs ahead now, about 28 cord stacked. With last winters wood and what I have on hand it was about 14 mo to get there. Not bad for scrounging. Have some standing dead BL and ash to get in the fall 5-10 cord. How cold does it get down there? Seems like alot of wood. Doe's snow down there. I went thru there a few yrs ago in april. Thought I was going to boil alive when outside.
--it doesn't get cold like up north, but it gets cold enough you need some heat like from sometimes october until well into april. It adds up, I mean, Garden Goddess once she gets to stuffing that stove do NOT quit until hot weather, hahahah! She is not a cold weather person, she wants it hot so I oblige. And we got a few light snows a winter. Two winters ago got six inches on Christmas day, I put a few pics up on the picture forum thread, back then. That and a leaky cabin, ya, we go through some wood. We burn a lot of lesser species though, along witht the good oak, we burn tulip poplar, pine, sweetgum, soft maple, etc. I stack it all, it all burns. The oak I cut today is pasture edge stuff or cull trees close by. I am doing one layer deep around a pasture, pushing the woods back, taking all the frontline overhanging trees no matter what they are..
Ya, spring and fall are weird, it can be hot or cold, it isn't consistent. Like I said, snow on one Christmas, and I have picked tomatoes on other Christmas days, just depends...
We had a doozy blizzard/cold snap back in 93, I was burning a lot in a fireplace I had then. Primary was propane but needed juice to run the furnace, and no ellecy for near a week. Hauled water from a spring, toted in frozen rocks to keep the fridge and freezer part cold, and ran an extension from my van with dual batts to run a 12 VDC TV and stuff in the house (single wide actually). To me, it was great sport! I love getting snowed in!
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