Trust me, if I had to buy wood or even pellets, I'd just assume pay for the oil. If I'm figuring my time rite, it's taking me about 6-8 hours per cord to cut it down, split it, haul it out of the woods and make a pile. In the winter, it takes me an hour to bring enough wood in the basement to last me 2 weeks. If I were to burn 800 gallons per winter, that's a $3,200 savings I basically earned in one weeks time..I'll take it
I filled my oil take up at the end of September last year, hot water and heat from the same boiler and I still have over 3/4 of a tank left so i'm guessing I've used 50-60 gallons for heat and hot water in just over 7 months. I probably burnt just under 4 cord of wood.
snowboarder, you mentioned 2x4 vs 2x6 construction when I was building my house. With 30 sqft or more of glass per room, you've just lost all advantages of a 2x6 walls R-value
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on 13 acres, you'll never run out of dead wood, every year more wood will grow and die than you can burn, even a poor forest can sustain a cord or more per acre
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That's what i'm hoping for. The front 2 or 3 acres is a 50/50 mix of pine and hardwood, the rear 10 or so acres is 95% white/red oaks. It seems like a very healthy and fast growing forest as well.