Every year, i search for a good place to pick up some "free btu's" that can usually be found at old loggin sites. This years "free" heat lasted for 8 weeks, as I am about to use up the rest of what I scrounged by the end of the week. Nice thing about the OWB is that I get free hot water from it also. Now for the rest of the winter, I'll be using wood that I actually had to PAY for!! Unless...you know, the snow cover is not all that bad here, yet...