Way back many moons ago when oil prices went up and fuel oil went over fifty cents a gallon A friend went and got into heating with wood over fuel oil. One evening we were up at his place and he had the wood burner cooking and it was plum HOT in his house .He was bragging on how much he was saving by burning wood. Now he did not live on a farm and he worked in town , never owned a pick up in his life. Had no wood on his place . But he bought a wood burner then he bought a new 3/4 ton Cheve 4x4 bought two new Sthil chain saws a new log splitter and on the weekend he would drive 65 miles down to his inlaws farm and cut and haul four loads of wood back to his place . That old Cheve 4x4 got around 9-10 MPG and gas back then was about fifty cents a gallon . But he was saving money . He was and educated IDIOT that could not see that he was paying out more to heat his home then if he had just bought fuel . Then you take my one cousin her and her Husband bought one of the smaller Du Pount manson in Wilmington and the one time i was there Richard took me down to the boiler room and showed me the three 10000 gallon fuel oil tanks that were used and he told me that on a normal year that it took one and a half filling to heat that place.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of Farm Machinery - by Joe Michaels. I am a mechanical engineer by profession, specializing in powerplant work. I worked as a machinist and engine erector, with time spent overseas. I have always had a love for machinery, and an appreciation for farming and farm machinery. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Not a place one would associate with farms or farm machinery. I credit my parents for instilling a lot of good values, a respect for learning, a knowledge of various skills and a little knowledge of farming in me, amo
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