My pile of deadfalls and prunings...

Do you heat your house with wood, Lori?

We have a fireplace stove, Klahanie. It heats our little place very well when there are power outages but there's always the smoke and ashes to contend with. Our primary heat is supplied by an oil burning furnace. Not the greenest but very necessary.

Same here Lori. We have a fireplace and wood burning stove but have never used either of them. We are also heating our house on the Island by oil burning furnace. We do not have natural gas infrastructure in our area.

With all the controversy about fracking for natural gas, it's hard to know what to use. Here in the cold north the options are few, but very necessary. Many people in this area burn wood because they can harvest it from their own land. Still ... a cord of wood is expensive if you have to buy it.

wow, that's some work represented there! hope you get it all the way home beofre you need it, and hope you didn't do too much at one time creating the pile

Fran, you'd laugh if you saw me "working". I toss the wood as far as possible downhill...then go down to the tossed pile and toss it a little farther on... ;-) Today, in it's 4th iteration, the pile has reached the shed and I will cut up the larger bits with a saw and stack it inside for kindling. Most of it is very dry and some of it is downright rotten, which makes it light to handle...so no probs there. I feel so much better when I can spend part of the day in the fresh air getting some much needed exercise.

that's the best way to do it - unless you can find some caber-tossers who might chuck them further!

;-) ... I toss a mean caber myself!

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