Sentences with phrase «enough firewood»

A rule of thumb from woodheat.org is that» a healthy, well - managed woodlot can yield half a cord of wood per acre per year forever» and that «a ten acre woodlot could sustainably produce enough firewood each year to heat a house.»

Firewood has a roll to play in providing an alternative energy source to petroleum, but, while it is a renewable resource, it is quite impossible to grow enough firewood to replace petroleum at current rates of consumption.

Laminate flooring exists throughout and the home's wood stove heats the entire home — you'll always have that fire - side, charcoal smell, but you also need to make sure you've chopped enough firewood for a full winter season.

Not exact matches

This luxury property features panoramic views of the village and surrounding Alps and enough indoor firewood storage to ensure not having to leave the house for quite some time.

I turned to writing, and when I wasn't writing, I was repairing and maintaining a passive - solar house in the country: shoveling snow, hauling tons of firewood up a steep hill, planting a vegetable garden that didn't get enough sun, and fulfilling various back - to - nature clichés.

«Unfortunately, the amount of aid is so little and the pressures to cut down the forest for furniture markets, firewood and building materials for homes, or other uses are so great that the conservation and money and protected areas are not enough to counteract the overall loss of forest in many countries.»

Teaching gets Thomas home early enough to work for several hours in his yard and tend to other chores — such as chopping firewood.

Enough power for transporting some four cubic metres of firewood on the pickup bed and a sail boat hooked up to the trailer coupling, for example.

I saved maybe 5 % of the mass of the trees for firewood and fence posts, left a few isolated oaks standing apart far enough apart so there was no continous canopy for a fire to spread, but the rest went up in smoke and this has been common practice since forever.

And it is not valuable enough even as firewood to pay people to harvest it... damn.