I’d have to say I would still be hoarding. I will never sell my house. Yes I would buy a warm weather property, and definitely some land up north. But my house and the property up north would definitely be heated by wood. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
A wood processor would be purchased first and foremost. Then a kubota L47. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Lots of comments here that I can relate to. I would still do it as I like the feel of wood heat, enjoy dropping trees and spending time in the bush.
I would...but might not be as diligent about keeping the oil man away this time of year, but once heating season starts, it would be on for sure! Heck I'd probably buy some nice wooded acreage, so I'd hafta hoard cause I can't stand to see wood "wasted"...
Well I have not won the lottery but I am retired and do pretty much what I want. Of course heating with wood and hoarding does take some of that retirement time but it is what I like. I have 2 tractors older ones and 50 saws and I am in the process of looking for a used backhoe. I guess I like being outside doing things and tinkering with things.
There some of us who do the wood thing just to save money and I think thats perfectly fine but many of us have it in our blood and love it! Whatever your motivation is its all good!
I was thinking about this question posed to us and to me their just seems to be a certain independence that comes with providing the heat for your home with your own work. A big plus around here is that we lose power every year during winter and heating with wood means you never get cold.
I'd be off the grid & on wooded acreage so fast my kids would wonder where I was till I gave em directions. Wood heat & nice equipment. Homegrown meats & veggies, hunting & wood hoarding would be top priorities, since I love both. Yes to the cabin & no to the pavement/concrete. BTW, I'm not fooling myself, my kids would beat me to the place. They're all good in the outdoors. What a dream & great question.
Aside from some that have already been mentioned here. I would buy a pre DEP , 500 plus horse truck. With at least a 15 speed tranny. Somewhere far away from salt water . Drive it to someplace like B.C. , Washington or Oregon and have it all set up with a 30,000 lb log loader With a bucking bar . And I would drive back to Maine and log some real good hardwood and haul it all the way back to the Interior and buck , split , and put it in the shed for my winters wood. !
I would increase hoard production and probably donate lots of wood to the less fortunate. Also wood restore an older style house with multiple stoves and have my own timber. On that property I wood like to have some animals mainly set the place up and have an early 1900’s era type small farm. Probably invest in an old dozer, a Red one of course with a winch and a medium size excavator with a thumb. I think that would make me pretty happy
Perfectly put! Yup!!! I'm right there with ya!!! For me, It's exercise, but also just a feeling of knowing that warmth thats going to come from something else God gave us. It all started though, because my home is "all electric" and heating bills went into orbit! But as Sean said, it's been in my blood since my Father put the first Fisher in the house in 1975, I've had one ever since!
I see I'm not alone. I like where I live but in order to have the several hundred acres of farmland and forest I really want, I'd probably have to invade PA or the central Appalachians. Also would be able to afford buying and restoring old tractors (specifically with Detroit diesels) and do a lot more homesteading/farming.
Off topic, I once talked to a guy who heated his pool with wood. I forget the details, but it involved a boiler and copper coils. I'm too stingy to use wood for that, I don't even have a fire pit.
I use my outdoor wood boiler to heat my pool. I have a shell-and-tube HX connected to the outlet of the pool pump and I run two hot water hoses from the boiler, supply and return. No thermostat or other controls, I just turn the circ pump on and off when I hit a reasonable temperature. My boiler is oversized for summer use, but I heat domestic water with it, so I actually need to dump heat to keep the fire going.
