That's it. The last of this coming season's wood fuel has arrived and is stacked in the woodshed. We now have that contentment, but we don't have concerns over warmth and hot water until August/September next year, no scary bills, and no more effort to get the wood blocks stacked. What's more, today's last delivery worked out just perfectly. Just as we got the last bags stacked, a few drops of rain started falling. These blocks mustn't get wet, or they disintegrate.
I had a stupidly large home in 30 acres of woodland in Canada. Six months of the year we got all our cooling and heating from a groundwater heat pump. During the long winter, the inline wood burner was used instead.
I spent a good portion of the summer cutting fallen wood for the winter after next, and bringing wood cut the previous year into the basement to fill a 27ft x 3ft x 7ft wood room.
@abeorch There's really no wood around here for 40+ miles, and then it's softwood, not much good for keeping the house warm in winter gales. So it's not free, but as we're off grid, we need something reliable and predictable.
@abeorch We have planted trees over the years. They struggle because of the wind and the poor soil here. We don't have the land for anything more, and by the time they're grown, we'll be long gone, I suspect.
Yeah one of your posts mentioned Assynt - so i figured you were around there somewhere. I have always found the lack of trees in Scotland unusual / slightly weird. I wondered why - was it deforestation or was the climate just unable to support them. The lack of low growth shrubs etc that would provide protection was weird to me to. My comparion was sub-antartctic islands.
@abeorch There are some remnants of the ancient forests but a combination of climate, very poor soil and evidence of deforestation has left things like this. There are some plans to connect up the remnants of old forest, but that won't be as universal as it could be.
You know there is that much quoted (and here misquoted ) saying about old men who plant trees underwhich they will never be able to enjoy their shade. One of my projects I need to do soon is to plant trees that will not mature until after I am dead .. to replace some of the ones in that photo i posted - we are enjoying their warmth now. Its an oddly rewarding task. It connects you with the world.
@abeorch Yes, we have some trees were grew from seed at the millennium. But they are at the same height as some we planted about 7 years ago. The wind lops them off such that all become the same height.
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I spent a good portion of the summer cutting fallen wood for the winter after next, and bringing wood cut the previous year into the basement to fill a 27ft x 3ft x 7ft wood room.
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