Splitting Firewood.
Here is a story I wrote up about my firewood splitting experience. I was splitting the wood to go camping with so, I believe this makes the story camping related. Before anybody points out that you ar...
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Caveman Charlie wrote:Ranger Smith wrote:
I used to have a wood boiler in upstate NY. I bought this thing that had a 4' door on it and had 760 gallons of water in it. I purchased it new, installed it and the first year I went through 3 logging trucks of firewood. Talk about cutting and splitting, shoveling snow, buying a bobcat to get to it when there was 3 feet of snow on ground. I worked all winter. Sold it the next spring and put in a regular boiler.
Wow, was it a big old drafty house? One of my friends that lives in town heated his home last winter with about 4-5 pickups of wood. That was with just a regular wood stove setting in the kitchen though. He also has a forced air furnace that he would turn on when not at home. Sure saved on his heat bill though. But, he is self employed and has time in the summer to cut and split wood. It's certainly not for everyone.
It was part of an old resort I rehabbed. The windows were old and on a windy night you could on occasion feel snow on your face when laying in bed. We had ice in the shower in the morning. Whole place was redone and sold once completed
