[TheForge] 5 HP Motors

[Aaron Silver]

At 04:40 PM 1/29/2004, you wrote:
>Aaron,
>
>We burned wood as our only heat source for 11 years. Probably 5-6 cords
>per year. We now use propane and it costs us around $600 per year to heat
>the house, heat my shop, gas forge,  dry clothes and cook. Looking back on 
>the whole
>thing I wish I would have switched to gas a lot sooner. Cutting wood is hard
>and dangerous work.

The house has a forced hot-air oil furnace, but the prices for that are 
through the roof. (I just spent over $200 for the last month's worth of 
oil, and that's with 2 wood stoves going pretty near full time)

>BTW I can rent a 20 ton hydraulic splitter for $40 per day. If you have a pile
>of wood and some friends you can split a lot of wood in a weekend and let
>someone else maintain and store the thing.

HD is offering one for about $90 per day, but I haven't really shopped the 
prices, so I could probably find one cheaper. At the $90 price I could buy 
their splitter in about 11 days of use, and while I don't know if I could 
justify 11 days of splitting in one year, I don't think it would be too 
many years before that added up.


>Bob

Thanks for the different perspective. I don't think I'm gonna switch to gas 
in the near term, but its always good to be looking at alternatives.

Aaron