That and a lot of them are treated with FR chemicals so even if they do burn they'll give off tons of not-so-nice fumes.
Yeah, short of cutting my own trees down (and far too many of them are pine, which makes them virtually worthless) and splitting them, it's buying wood.
Unfortunately, wood is usually much pricier than in other areas. Typical price for seasoned wood is upwards of $250/cord. If you're lucky they'll deliver and stack it for you. The 1/3 cord we got was $90, and we hauled it/stacked it. But it beats the hell out of the $5-6 per bundle the tourists buy outside Cumberland Farms on their way "upta camp" in the mountains.
What about the seniors that have no place to burn wood, it comes down to having to chose between the electric and the gas or oil to keep warm at 32 degrees outside and food to live.
Do we dare suggest the seniors give up their home, their pets, the life style they worked all their lives for to force more assisted living conditions on them??? A double or triple room in a nursing home and they have to leave behind all that is important to them. We thank them for their service to our country, it is just hard luck that there are few relatives left to help you, most friends have died or are in ill health to help you or visit.
Tough cookies people, you are 67, have worked for over 50 years, paid taxes, raised and put kids through college, some that may have given their lives for our country, whats the complaint, your savings are gone, due to bad investments and the stock market, now you cry out you cannot afford medication, heat and food, taxes and a life time of work is gone.------Your problem-----You know life, it sucks. DAMNATION on those that dare to live a long fruitfully life. This whole mind set makes me SICK and wondering where we go next.
----So Liberals expect people who built and suffered for this country at their old age to give to them what their grandparents worked for??? WTF, uncle AL has no family but has a coin collection that he could give to me if I can find a way to get him in a Nursing home. Nothing really wrong with uncle Al but he has to take heart medication and insists on chopping wood for heat. For his own good I believe we have to claim him incompetent, put him away some where he is SAFE and take over without his knowledge of consent every darn piece of his life, the things he worked so hard to acquire.
Most seniors that can no longer drive, need to lug about an oxygen tank cannot be expected to be dragging a tank of O2 outside to cut wood.
This thread has a very close to liberal bent to it, expecting a 67 year old to chop her wood when for all we know she is in a wheel chair.
The seniors that need help after a life time of helping others is my concern, the help for the adults who have lived on the government teet for all their lives, unless disabled as children become a second thought.
Conservative though is to first help those that helped us and our country, everyone falls on hard times, the older generation has bailed their kids out of all kinds of messes, but when it comes time to find the family is bleed out by the family and can no longer help the kids, the liberal kids and family think nothing or rushing in and taking what they wish from their grandparents and other family members.
So what is the age the liberals put at when a family member is helped, 67 years or 77 ? Insane, long as they have something they want, the freaking Liberals will have grand pa responsible for for chopping wood at 90.
