The trip back from Tennessee was uneventful. The low the night before I left was in the mid 20's. Half way to Nashville I still had snow lying on the trucks bed cover.
Lydia was here Tuesday. She helped me with several chores <grin>.
Yesterday I cut down a dead tree by the pond.
I didn't actually cut the screws but I did hit the edge of the heads.
Today Kathy & I cut down several small dead trees near the house. Then I decided to split the largest piece of a tree I had cut down several months ago.
At the top the piece of wood measured 20" in diameter. At the bottom it was at least 24" in diameter. It was so hard that my splitting axe just bounced off it, the same with wedges. It was so hard that....
I broke my good splitting axe, not the handle, the axe head broke in two. I managed to get the chunk of wood split into pieces that will fit into the Hardy furnace, all except the last piece. Tomorrow I may fire up my log splitter and split it as well as some other "knotty" chunks that I don't want to bother splitting by hand.
Yesterday we ordered a new heat pump and new propane furnace. Installation is to be complete by Thanksgiving. One of the guys who works for the company has a similar system. He has the controls set to heat with the heat pump until the temperature in the house starts falling. Then the system switches over to the furnace for heat. He believes that if the heat pump will put out enough heat to keep the house warm, even if it has to run continuously, it is cheaper to run the heat pump than the propane furnace. We still plan on heating with the Hardy wood boiler whenever we are home, so the heat side of the system won't save us a lot of money, but some day I will get tired of cutting wood. The heat pump is probably 40% more efficient that our old air conditioning unit. It should save us a significant amount of money during the summer months.
God bless you and yours.
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