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Here we are at the end of January, and I've now gone through the wood I set aside to get me through the spring of 08 (about 80% of our heat comes from wood.) Each year, since about 1965, I've cut and split enough firewood to get me through the winter (I lived in Hawaii from 1971 to 1975, so that doesn't count.) My parents and grand parents did the same. Every year, I've always had a big surplus of wood for the next year.

How are the rest of you doing for wood?

Also, I have a large collection of axes, hatchets, mauls, etc. Nearly all that have wooden handles. Nearly all are loose this winter.

Is it just me??

Ken

ken, i spend alot of days cutting up down trees....just today cleaned up a 75 ft digger pine that fell on driveway during our last storm.....we probably have 50 chords lying around the place w/ all the trees down on steep inaccessible slopes, but all i ever get to use it for is big bonfires.....our house has a pellet stove which the wife loves and i wish was a wood stove or fire place. growing up we heated alot w/ wood, but its been about 12 years since i had to cut and split it for the house.

loose handled tools...dry winter for you? all my tools suffer like that over summer, i stick em in a bucket of water the night before i need them...

We just run the woodburner in the basement 24/7 from sometime in November until I get sick of it sometime in March, to knock a $100 or so off of the gas bill all Winter. I start each Winter with about 2 years worth of firewood cut and stacked (2/3 of it hedgeapple/osage orange/bois d'arc, so that part never rots), but since Winter is the time of year I like best for cutting and splitting wood, I cut more all Winter and burn the newly cut wood as much as possible so I only have to handle it once (I'm cutting trees dropped long enough ago that they are cured already).

Anyway, our wood consumption is pretty constant, but I think it's been cold more than last year.

P.S. The chain on the saw IS loose right now. AND I have a broken handle on one sledge hammer.