Poll Addendum
Addendum to poll.
Home Harvesting = Free Wood= Scroungingh by any means except wood trespassing ( i.e. STEALING) IF using it for +/- 100% wood heat. I makes the rules on this :rockn: .
Other choices should be: 100% romance with 100% wood heat for the results. This is open to grand interpretation since some of us do both
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We harvest 6-7 cords of firewood/year from ~ 60 acres of Downeast mixed woodland: poor spruce/fir, some Red Maple, Paper/White Birch, little Black or Green Ash (still can't tell which is which), rare Red Oak. Near 4-5 cords of softwood pulpwood from TSI or blowdowns for my neighbor and compadre vet Keith who still cuts pulp and firewood at 83. He just had a hip replaced, so we got to stop our whining about age and pains.
Like some on the Logging Forum, I buck the trees in winter when they're felled, load the butts in a trailer pulled by a Honda ATV, then pile the butts for later splitting and stacking.
99% wood heat with two stoves, Jotul Oslo non-cat and VC Encore cat. An Empire propane thru-the-wall does 1/2 of the place up to 55F when we leave for odd winter weekends. The other 1/2 is closed off like most New Englanders did in winter. The non-cat BTW uses close to 1/3 more wood than the cat.
