I started last winter with no stockpiled firewood, and I spent the season cutting frantically, staying just barely ahead of the cold. I promised myself that I wouldn’t do that again, and aimed to have a winter’s worth (6 months worth, really) of firewood cut, split, and stacked by early summer. It’s now October, a couple things got in the way of my righteous plan, and it was 55º in my bedroom this morning; but I’m not quite as screwed as I was last year at this time.
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I managed to get a couple of cords cut during the summer, of the 10-12 cords I think I’ll need. But my salvation will be all the trees that Eversource cut down along the power lines. Mark Smith and his amazing skidder consolidated the big stems into a couple of landing areas,
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and all I have to do is make those tree trunks into firewood.
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I have high hopes that I’ll have my 12 cords put up before the heating season begins in earnest, but I also used to think I would become an academic chemist. We’ll see.
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