For me the busy time of the year is over. Already been six years since I {retired } from my town job and came home to take care of the farms. Harvest around here wasn't good 50 percent bean crop and 75 percent corn crop. We had a very dry year. So here's the question. I kept pretty good track of how much wood it took in the off season to heat my domestic water. Right at three cords of mostly hedge. I installed the Garn in Nov 09 and other than the two leaks in 2019 and 2021 I have ran it year around. Once in a great while the LP water heater kicks on if I am lazy and don't feed it. I have never enjoyed making firewood but its a needed evil to get farms cleaned up and use the wood. My two helpers are in there sixty's as I am. Is it time to shut down in the spring and just burn LP during the off heating season? I am not worried about cost of wood vs LP. Probably would only save a day or maybe two making that three cord. My total burn is 10-15 cord a year to heat my shop, house and domestic.