We have had one of those wonderful outdoor wood furnaces!
No muss, no fuss, no smoke, no bugs, no ash mess and all the hot water the grandkids can use.
Best of all, you only fill it once a day! Or even less if we want to go away or a couple of days. Just turn it down a bit.
We even keep it running well into so spring just to heat the water.
Uh, $200/CORD? That’s a 4x4x8? Here in MI You can get nice dry hardwood delivered for $100/$130? cord.
We figure that 18 ricks (face cords) in the shed will run us to March and Maple-syruping time.
We are fortunate that we have 20 acres of mostly hardwoods to thin and cull for timbering every 15 years or so.
It just seems to be the rotation of nature that a few years ago we had to cut a bunch of cherry because of a beetle infestation. Ths year the heat and humidity set off the Dutch elm disease again. Before that, we had a bad windstorm that took out and topped off a bunch. Nature just keeps providing....
What can I say, cost of living. I live on acreage but cannot cut myslf and son is not old enough yet.