Posted on 02/23/2011 6:05:44 PM PST by nhwingut
Burn wood.
My house is remote enough that the cost of trucking wood out to it would be barbaric. There are no trees anywhere nearby.
I looked into the option of a wood pellet stove to supplement the propane heat, but the damn stove and hook up was about as expensive as the furnace for the house.
What I would like to do when I have the money is install a geothermal heat pump. That way I would be able to both heat and cool the house economically on electricity.
Although I actually know eastern Colorado is on the plains,and have visited there several times, I was visualizing Aspen trees, Ponderosa pine and plenty of wood. I was thinking Rocky Mountain High.
My afterthought was that for $700 you could probably hire two Mexicans to cut up enough wood for the winter.
Understandable. That’s the part of the state that gets all the publicity. It’s also the expensive land. Much of the state (the eastern part like you say), pretty much looks like Kansas. I have 60 acres of high plains. It’s buffalo grass, some cactus and not much else.
However it does make a nice shooting range.
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