Well, it's been a colder than usual winter these past few months. The local natural-gas company, Enstar has increased everyone's gas bill by about 30 percent, so I'm more motivated than usual to keep our wood-stove-insert stoked with firewood.
So for the last few weeks I've been scouring the neighborhoods for downed trees (birch preferably), that the property owners will allow me to remove. A rather nasty wind storm we experienced last October has made the hunt for downed trees a little easier. A couple of folks have given me about a cord worth of wood, and others haven't responded to my requests...oh well.
I did take a look on my own property, and yesterday, just above our home, discovered a 30-40 foot spruce tree that fell sometime during the past year. It's about 40 feet above our home, and the ground is covered with about three feet of snow, so getting up to it has been a challenge, and cutting it up safely has also been a challenge. Getting all the pieces down to the house has been an exercise in exercise (which, I suppose, is a good thing). I got about 12 feet worth of the tree down today--and we're burning a touch of it as I 'pen' this blog.... ahhh...warmth.
Whoever came up with the phrase, "Wood heats twice...once when you cut it, and once with you burn it" knew what they were talking about.
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