Yeah, I did a litle of that this winter. I think I feel guilty having so much wood and so many saws so sharing comes easy. LOL
Had one friend that got slammed with bronchitis fpr a few weeks so I cut a couple loads for him. Helped another neighbor who is always in scrounge mode, but that got short circuited when the deep snow arrived. Which raises a point that we haven't really discussed yet. I'm in a heavily wooded area here, and some people operate in scrounge mode all the time. Their priorities are let's say, a little different? But they feel they can usually just go out and cut a weeks worth of wood at a time as needed. Well when all the snow hit, that option was gone. Same as for people who had stocked up a little bit, but ran out. We're just now getting to the point where things have melted enough where you can go out and scrounge up some wood.
I've also helped customers in the shop by turning around their one and only saw the same day they brought it in. They're out, or running out, of wood and I don't like the idea of folks being cold, regardless of whether or not it's mostly their own fault. Often they need the saw that day, as it's the only open window for them to do a little cutting. We're always happy to turn stuff around quick for a commercial guy, so why not a homeowner who's in a jam.
I think those "priorities" I mentioned above might get re-arranged by a lot of people after this year.
Well, I just putz at it now and then, quite irregular. but when I do, I haul the cellulose.
When I lived up north, just about every single day, and wasn't picky what I grabbed at all. If it was wood and I could haul it or drag it, back to the yard. That's the only thing that ever worked for me, no firewood gathering season, just year round. Hauled out quite a lot with cheap sleds and snowshoes when I had to.
Of course I was in my 20s and in pretty fair shape then....
I would bet big money a whole lotta folks who ran out this year are size and species snobs and if they had any extra second tier or lesser wood, they burned it in ambience firepits during the summer. Nuts. Priorities first, you need to be several years ahead before any firepit noise.
Right now, still burning, burning punky poplar and pine mostly. We burn over 4 cord a year, so..I ain't picky. I have a real decent stash of A1 absolute primo wood I have put away, oak and hickory, and barely touch it, it's just stacked up well, then I burn everything else. I will burn the primo uglies for hardwood. The pretty small rounds and splits, just accumulating them for a variety of reasons, they last well, cutting doesn't get any easier once you hit a geezer plateau, so you need to get ahead (plus fuel availability, I remember the embargo..) and push comes to shove, I can sell it if I really have to, and still not worry about my heating needs.
This country wastes wood in big burn piles and at the landfill. There's really no excuse for that, other than...I don't know the reason. I have no idea why people waste energy like that. I have no idea why people think burning green works either.
I know the goobermint ain't helping much either, just making it harder and harder to use wood for energy except for the fatcats and those big electric generator outfits. They are gonna continue to ban this or that and the insuirance companies will make it harder and harder to use wood. The wall street criminals do not like energy they can't monopolize. They call the shots and tell the goobs what to do.
Now I do know why conservation isn't pushed more, the fatcats makes loads more money convincing people their insulation levels are good, when they aren't, and sending them that big utility bill every month.
I'll predict right now, as soon as hot weather hits, 95% (maybe, around there) of the folks who had astronomical heating utility bills this year will forget about it and do nothing much different.
