On 2020-12-26 9:53 p.m., Bob wrote:
> On 12/26/2020 8:46 PM, Leo wrote:
>
>>> Nice. There were days using a maul I wished for something like that.
>>
>> I have a sledgehammer, a wedge, an axe and something called a wood
>> grenade in
>> the garage. The only one of them that I have used in the last thirty
>> years is
>> the axe. I found that paying a power bill is more efficient to me than
>> what
>> they do.
>> I also have a five foot by one inch diameter iron rod with a chisel
>> tip, a
>> hand winch and a crowbar. What the hell was I thinking?
>>
>>
> When I was younger heating with wood was good exercise and using the
> stove to cook at times was fun. Famil room was always nice and warm too.
> Â*Not sure how much money I actually saved but at some point I found it
> easier to write checks for oil than split and haul wood.

Not to mention the problem of most fireplaces sucking all that warm air
out of the rest of the house to feed the fire. The house next door had
an oil furnace but the former owner heated primarily with wood. He had a
brother who owned a wood lot a few miles from here. He worked steady
midnights and spent most of his time cutting, splitting and lugging work.

He worked at a GM plant and his wife was a loans officer at a local
bank, so they were making pretty good money between them and could
easily afford to pay for oil.


The guy who bought the house from him got rid of the wood stove and
replaced the oil furnace with natural gas. He later sold the house and
built a place about 250 miles north of here and heats that place. They
got one of those hi tech exterior units that uses a coolant to transfer
the heat from the wood powered heater to the house. His wife usually
comes back this way to visit every christmas, bit he has to stay there
to feed the fire. She is not very happy with the arrangement.