tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282078313959653531.post8843151448054394053..comments2021-05-05T03:04:25.631-07:00Comments on Windham County: Changes in the LandCervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282078313959653531.post-90922982650640604102011-04-05T06:36:03.279-07:002011-04-05T06:36:03.279-07:00so that "just in time" inventory game is...so that "just in time" inventory game is breaking down even in the firewood biz. we struggled this past winter with unseasoned wood hastily bought in january when we installed a wood stove. <br /><br />we will have 2 year wood next winter. it's one year wood now. we do have many years of pine firewood standing as overgrown forest in need of thinning to reduce fire danger. there's some irony there. <br /><br />humans may well strip the planet of firewood while contaminating it on other ways to get oil.rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554961854201609452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282078313959653531.post-30722174650426168952011-04-05T06:24:23.092-07:002011-04-05T06:24:23.092-07:00C -- Yes, the idea of using logging waste sounds g...C -- Yes, the idea of using logging waste sounds good (Why let it go to waste?) but leaving the tops in the woods is important. As they break down, they return some nutrients to the soil, and they provide a place for seedlings to get started with some protection from the deer. So they're important to regeneration. Just stripping everything out is bad policy. Also, its an incentive to cut younger trees, and more trees, as you suggest. Wood doesn't burn clean but smokestacks can be scrubbed. I'd want to know exactly what's coming out of that stack.<br /><br />D-- 2011-2012 will be my first winter staying there regularly, but last winter I never turned on more than 3 baseboards (out of a dozen) and the house never got really cold. My climate is a bit milder than yours and the house is also passive solar design. On cold sunny days, no fire is necessary till evening. So I don't expect to use a whole lot, but we'll see. I also have to supply my mother and my aunt. <br /><br />I have mostly oak, some maple and beech, so it's good stuff.Cervanteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282078313959653531.post-35503021169847676102011-04-04T12:30:11.343-07:002011-04-04T12:30:11.343-07:00How much wood do you use in a year?
As a benchm...How much wood do you use in a year? <br /><br />As a benchmark, I live at about 3,300 ft & 47.5 N. I use less than 2 cords. I supplement with passive solar and some baseboard (baseboard when I'm lazy and sometimes overnight if it's really cold).<br /><br />I primarily use cottonwood & some lodge-pole pine. Neither have the high BTU content of a hardwood.Danielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282078313959653531.post-59382231199346240342011-04-03T14:18:21.636-07:002011-04-03T14:18:21.636-07:00Ah, and then we have biomass plants: Talk about an...Ah, and then we have biomass plants: Talk about an incentive to denude the landscape!<br /><br />http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/proposed_greenfield_biomass_pl.html<br /><br />A friend who lives right near where this would be going in said that a Madera official told the crowd that they didn't need to worry about pollution, because the stack would be so high, it would send the pollution out of the area. As in: "What's the worry? We'll be polluting someone else's air, so it's all okay!"C. Coraxnoreply@blogger.com