Sept 25th - Wood Stacking

Spent the morning researching trailers online, and doing research getting ready to leave for Bryce Canyon, Utah in a couple of weeks. I was going to stop in Denver and have repairs made to our awning (see post dated August 15th) as well as the annual chassis maintenance. After the research I think I will wait and have the work done when I get to Arizona.

I have my annual eye appointment in the morning. I am planning on heading for Tennessee after the appointment. Tom, my fantastic brother-in-law, has done some "leg work" for me and found a couple of trailers between Nashville and Crossville. I plan on staying overnight in the Nashville area, buying one of the trailers on Thursday and taking it on to Crossville with me. I will come back with my tractor and trailer on Saturday or Sunday.

This afternoon I did manage to get our split wood stacked. I think I have about 2.5 cords in this building.

We also have a little over another cord in the lean-to that houses the wood furnace.

My guess is that this amount of wood would only last into January if we heated only with wood. My very uneducated guess is that it would take 10 cords of wood to last through a normal mid-Missouri winter.

We have an average of 5,200 heating degree days during the winter. Crossville, TN has 4,200. Coldwater, MI has about 7,000. Indianapolis, IN has 5,600. Winters here are almost as cold as they were where we lived north of Indianapolis. We experience 1,200 cooling degree days while Crossville, Coldwater & Indianapolis experience 1,200; 530; 1,000.

Have a great evening. May God bless you and yours.