Back in October 2011, 2 days before Halloween we had a huge snow storm. The leaves were still on the trees. There was massive damage. My property has 80 trees. I chain sawed limbs and branches for three days, saved the big ones and drug the rest to curb side for Town pickup. My power was off for three days.
I have a fireplace. I researched wood pellets. There are wood pellet furnaces and there are fireplace baskets. The furnaces are a major installation and an expense well North of $3,000.
I ordered the pellet basket.
http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...=pellet+basket
It fit's into my fireplace grill. And I bought bags of pellets from Lowe's, less than $4 per bag.
Hard wood, oak, firewood gets a little expensive from the Guy's who cut, split, haul and sell it.