Friday, November 20, 2009

8 cords of wood

No need to ask "What's Chuck doing today?" He's been cutting, splitting, and stacking wood! This is what 8 cords of wood look like. There is another cord of hedge stacked behind this because it was a live tree and needs to season. The rest of the wood is from fallen trees. I think we could heat our house for 100 years just on the trees that die and /or fall down. Talk about a renewable resource!

1 comment:

Celtic Hare said...

WOW!!! That's some serious back work!!! The old saying goes, "wood is the only heat source that actually warms you 'twice' ..... once when you're cutting it and then when you burn it.

Just curious....how much wood do you burn during the winter? (Taking notes! ;- ) )

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