So my wood pile is almost gone right now. It's not that I don't have a supply of wood, but it's a half hour away. My dad owns a tree company, and he's got a monster pile of wood at his house. I went to get a load of wood today in a 4x8 trailer with 4' sides (so, a cord of wood. I loaded up the trailer and the tires were resting on the fenders. So, I unloaded half of the trailer figuring some wood was better than no wood. I started off and one of the tires went flat on the trailer, with no spare. So the trailer with half a cord of wood is sitting at my parents house and I have about one day's worth of wood left. Now, it's dumping snow on us. We're at 8" now with no end in sight yet. 8" pretty much shuts the roads down around here, so I doubt I'll be getting wood tomorrow either.
Now, I can get my blazer out on the roads in the morning, but I don't have a trailer to bring wood home in, I can't put wood in the blazer (or won't), and even if I could bring home a trailer full of wood, it would never make it up into my yard to my boiler with all the snow on the ground.
I have a deuce and a half, but it's got the military NDT tires on it. They suck on anything but hard surfaces. It's a PITA to load wood into it as well. I have a trailer for it even, but with short sides, so it could only hold a small load.
My nearest source of coal is an hour away on a clear road. That could hold me over for a few days perhaps if I got some. Wood is free, though.
I should have brought home wood yesterday I guess.
This sucks....