ESCANABA — Heating with wood is not only a passion, for some, but also environmentally smart and helps keep dollars local.

Down to only a single winter’s worth of seasoned firewood, it was time to buy another truckload, which is around 10 to 12 cords. I prefer to buy my logs, rather than glean them from the woods. Although, that sort of harvest can also be a passion.

So, I called around and, with a bit of effort, surprisingly, I eventually found a twelve-cord load of cull sawlogs from an area wood products company. I was a bit suspicious of the cull characteristic. Would these logs be ornery to split? As it turned out, no. The larger than usual logs split well.

By the way, a standard cord is a stack of eight-foot logs, four feet high, and four feet wide. Geometry dictates that smaller l

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