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That Wood Do It
Nov. 4th, 2018 03:17 pmWe've been putting it off for various reasons, but today, the first day of Standard Time, is a sort of marker in our calendar, and Lisa hitched up the utility trailer to the Small Orange Truck and we went to Big R and bought a pallet of North Idaho Energy Logs. As I've written before, we're really glad they started selling these, after they discontinued the "fencepost" wood we'd been buying from them. The wood is 100% compressed sawdust (no binders), squeezed very tight. As long as you don't get it wet, it's just dandy firewood, and generates more heat per cubic unit than cord-wood. A pallet costs $239, and has approximately the same heat as between 1.5 and 2 cords of cord-wood. By comparison, when we bought three cords of wood a couple of years ago from a place in Reno, it cost more than $1000. (And that doesn't even count the annoyance of having their delivery driver knock over our mailbox and dump the wood in the wrong place.)
When we got home, I got kitted up in my coveralls (you do get a lot of sawdust on you when moving this stuff around), Lisa backed the trailer up against the fence, and she handed the logs to me to load into our two wood boxes.
( What a Load of... )
Besides what we have in the wood boxes here, there is about 1 1/4 pallets of these logs out in the garage, so we are fairly well set for the colder weather that is just around the corner.
Ironically (but usefully since we were unloading wood), today was relatively warm, so after we got everything put away including stowing the trailer and getting dusted off and the sawdust swept off the porch, we could spend a while just relaxing in our deck chairs on our front porch looking at the trains across the street. We don't get to do that as much as we would like, and it was a nice afternoon to do so.
When we got home, I got kitted up in my coveralls (you do get a lot of sawdust on you when moving this stuff around), Lisa backed the trailer up against the fence, and she handed the logs to me to load into our two wood boxes.
( What a Load of... )
Besides what we have in the wood boxes here, there is about 1 1/4 pallets of these logs out in the garage, so we are fairly well set for the colder weather that is just around the corner.
Ironically (but usefully since we were unloading wood), today was relatively warm, so after we got everything put away including stowing the trailer and getting dusted off and the sawdust swept off the porch, we could spend a while just relaxing in our deck chairs on our front porch looking at the trains across the street. We don't get to do that as much as we would like, and it was a nice afternoon to do so.
