I just realized that I can help my grandfather out, and add to my stacks at the same time.
I wouldn't normally buy wood. As I'm surrounded by it at home. BUT..
My grandfather is confined to a wheelchair now. He had bought and had stacked in his basement next to his OLD OLD tarm 4 cords last fall.
He can't tend it now, and luckily for his checkbook, we had a mild winter.
No relatives live close enough to tend the fire, and his and my grandmother's nurses all have no interest in doing wood boiler. I guess I can't blame them.
Anyway.. I'll hire the same neighbor kids to haul the wood OUT that stacked it IN the basement. Pay my grandfather back what he paid for the wood.... and that will add 4 cords to my stacks. I just need to keep buying pallets. I think I'm at about 25 pallet "U's" now. That's a little under 8 cords I think. My dad keeps splitting my pile. Probably another 3 cords in rounds now. I guess that will put me over a year ahead. Not bad for no boiler yet!
JP
I wouldn't normally buy wood. As I'm surrounded by it at home. BUT..
My grandfather is confined to a wheelchair now. He had bought and had stacked in his basement next to his OLD OLD tarm 4 cords last fall.
He can't tend it now, and luckily for his checkbook, we had a mild winter.
No relatives live close enough to tend the fire, and his and my grandmother's nurses all have no interest in doing wood boiler. I guess I can't blame them.
Anyway.. I'll hire the same neighbor kids to haul the wood OUT that stacked it IN the basement. Pay my grandfather back what he paid for the wood.... and that will add 4 cords to my stacks. I just need to keep buying pallets. I think I'm at about 25 pallet "U's" now. That's a little under 8 cords I think. My dad keeps splitting my pile. Probably another 3 cords in rounds now. I guess that will put me over a year ahead. Not bad for no boiler yet!
JP
