[Porsche-O-Phile]

Have to agree with Mr. Henry here. Wood is a major PITA. Dirty, messy, hard to store and transport, etc. I just chucked an old and very unsafe looking wood burning stove that had been installed in my shop (replacing with two 50,000 BTU/h propane vent-free heaters which will be able to keep it 90 degrees in there on a 10 degree day if I ever want to). I have a lot of wood on the property that I've been clearing and several trees that make an awful mess with leaves that are going to go "bye-bye" in the next few weeks but I'll probably just put an ad on CL for the wood and have it gone. I may install a wood burning stove as an emergency backup heat source just in case but I'd never use it as a primary source - its just way too big of a pain to deal with. Pellet stoves are an option worth exploring too (cheap, but you're still ultimately dependent on a manufactured/processed product as a fuel source).