It has been said that heating by wood is the fuel that heats you twice... In reference to the work necessary to split and stack the fuel... but when wood fuel is gathered by bike it is the fuel that heats you thrice... is that a word? Heat from a good wood stove cannot be beat, especially here in the perpetually damp pacific north west... There are many wonderful and advantageous reasons for living in Humboldt, County, but fuel prices are not one of them... Gasoline prices here are the highest in California, if not the country... And unfortunately to a wood stove junky, wood for the stove seems to be no cheaper... While i scour the local sources for wood not to get "burned" seems more unlikely every year...if i find a reasonably priced cord the delivery fee or the distance i have to go eliminates the savings... Fortunately, thanks to a well made bike trailer i can supplement our winter stock of wood just fine... as i weigh the options, hoping to find at least one good reasonably priced cord of hard wood, i'm chipmunking smaller loads of wood with the Blue Sky trailer, hoping not to get caught in the cold when the real cold weather gets here...
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