I live in southern NH.
When I bought this house nine years ago I seriously considered putting in a large soapstone/cast iron wood stove. I have about 10 acres of mixed hardwood forest to cut from.
I had a Jotul wood stove in my previous house. Instead, I installed a Harman pellet stove insert in the masonry fireplace in the family room of this house. It was not cheap. It was about $5500 installed with a SS pipe going up the existing chimney. I am so glad I did now after running it for 8 winters. I can burn any kind of cheap wood pellet you can buy. It heats most of my house and uses about one 40# bag/day.
I clean it once a week. Takes about a half hour or so.
The pellets I buy come from mills right here in New England.
I still have a forced hot water boiler furnace in the basement. If the price of oil goes down. I burn more oil.
If the price of oil goes up, I burn more pellets.
i’ve got a wood stove in the house, a wood stove and fireplace in a cabin out back behind the house, a custom built concrete block dual chambered smoker for hanging and slow cooking meat, a custom built concrete block whole hog smoker with rotating spit and a shed that has at least 10 cords of firewood stored in it at all times... all of which sits in 10 acres of woods surrounded by another couple of thousands of acres of woods... firewood is easily accessible and free for me...