Home heating oil

[goddessfarmer]

On 10/02/01 the tank was filled.
on 11/10/03 the tank was topped off with 102.9 Gal
on 10/17/06 (today) we purchased 134.5 gal to fill the tank.
Firewood may be hard work, but I'm happy with it.

Comments

[chocorua.livejournal.com]

From 2001 through 2008 or so, we will be using wood from two projects to re-clear grown up fields, and two project to cut the trees along the edge of a field back to the stone wall (probably 25 years growth). We could get by on 5-8 intensively-managed acres but because of the land we've protected, we have another four miles of stone wall to expose; wood for my lifetime anyway.

Keep in mind that most urban and suburban areas waste enormous amounts of wood, mostly as chips made by the DPW and tree guys. The first person in one of these areas to install a chip-burning furnace will feel like the early bio-diesel people did with fryer oil - you get it for nothing because otherwise they'd have to pay to dump it. The other strategy is to find open conservation land that needs the same "clear the field back to its original size" done to preserve the habitat, view or whatever.