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RE: Laziness - The mother of invention. My firewood situation.

in #homesteading7 years ago

I love it! I have a big problem moving firewood and coal as I have to get it out of the trailer and up to under our papers (big shed on legs) we live on a hill so it means three flights of stairs and a long sloped path. Doesn't take long but my plumbers knees are feeling it. Answer.? Wait for the cows on our field to go home to the mountains and drive the whole trailer up with our 4x4, as long as the hill dries out and the owners of the cows will drop the fence for me. Two runs and I should hopefully have it full.

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Seems like we always have to be thinking of ways to save our bodies from overuse! I feel for the plumbers knees. Mine are no good either.

The other thing we plan is multiple rocket heaters. Use 2/3s less wood, less wood to haul!

Yes! We used a rocket stove to cook on for a year. We could cook a meal with a handful of sticks and a few pine cones. They are awesome.

Yeah and rocket mass heaters have taken them to a while different level. I have plans for a rocket cooking range and a rocket water boiler. We want to build in a similar style to an earthships so hopefully we won't need as much in the way of space heating.