2004-12-27
WOOD HEAT
There's now 3 cord of wood cut, split and stacked in the back yard | I spent half of Christmas day and most of today running the woodsplitter |
I was doing this in part because we need closer to 5 cord to heat the house for the whole winter | We've burned one cord already this year, much to Bruce's surprise, I expect | So we'll need another cord split and stacked before winter's over | The tarp-covered pile you see here is last year's | The pile I'm standing next was finally split and eliminated this season |
Now, I use a mechanical splitter, saves a great deal of time | Though I was once at a part at Little Mark's and had a brief chat with two big burly hyper-muscled biker types who sneered at the idea of anyone using such a device, implying "real men" would only do this kind of effort by hand ~ with a maul + mallet or an axe, perhaps |
I looked at them real long, then said, you've never heated with wood, have you | Turns out they were both city-boys; macho killer in looks but... and while one was a cop, the other was a hairdresser | Shows to go you that muscles, body ink and big motorcycles sometimes have a disconnect with reality and pay the cost in image |
There's now 3 cord of wood cut, split and stacked in the back yard | I spent half of Christmas day and most of today running the woodsplitter |
I was doing this in part because we need closer to 5 cord to heat the house for the whole winter | We've burned one cord already this year, much to Bruce's surprise, I expect | So we'll need another cord split and stacked before winter's over | The tarp-covered pile you see here is last year's | The pile I'm standing next was finally split and eliminated this season |
Now, I use a mechanical splitter, saves a great deal of time | Though I was once at a part at Little Mark's and had a brief chat with two big burly hyper-muscled biker types who sneered at the idea of anyone using such a device, implying "real men" would only do this kind of effort by hand ~ with a maul + mallet or an axe, perhaps |
I looked at them real long, then said, you've never heated with wood, have you | Turns out they were both city-boys; macho killer in looks but... and while one was a cop, the other was a hairdresser | Shows to go you that muscles, body ink and big motorcycles sometimes have a disconnect with reality and pay the cost in image |
CORDWOOD MISCELLANEY: Calculating Cordwood Correctly | WoodHeat.Org's Preparing your fuel supply | About's Firewood values + Costs | In some places, Cordwood house construction is popular these days | Not exactly about cordwood, but Village Math looks at the world from the perspective of an Alaskan wilderness resident |
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