| We heat the house and shop with nothing but wood for nearly 15 years. Living here in the woods 18 acres of it we have trees that get blown down, die or just need to be cut due to maturity. I was a timber cutter for several years after getting out of the Army and still have logger friends. I usually sell the marketable logs to them and then cut the rest up for firewood. I use to sell over 30 cords of wood a year but I don't have time for that any longer.
As far as time worth something, out here it is a job that has to be done. If we don't do it we have to pay someone to do it, and I'm not going to do that. It is just one of the jobs that are on the list just like , gardening, haying, mending fence, cleaning the wood lot just fits right in. I figure it is just our way of life. I often wonder what it would be like to live in town and have nothing to do but care for a yard. I believe I would be bored very fast. |