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Someone up there posted a comment complaining about the cost of firewood. Full disclosure here: my son-in-law is a forester and logger. "Cut, split and delivered seasoned hardwood" is not quite as simple -- or as cheap to create -- as might be assumed. Logging and forestry isn't jolly lumberjacks heading into the woods, singing songs, anymore. it is hedged around by literal books of regulations. You can't get help to work in the woods (we've tried to hire helpers who aren't positively dangerous and they don't exist at less than close to a grand a day). The equipment isn't cheap, either. Then the price of wood is wildly variable, and anything decent will sell for well over the quoted figure up there for firewood. Firewood is made from stuff you can't sell for timber or veneer, and is usually sold at a loss -- and only because you have to clean up the woodlot. Then you have to saw it to stove length (and a cutoff saw is one of the most dangerous gadgets in the world). Then you have to split it. Then store it for a year or more. Then truck it to the customer. Or you can chip it and sell it to someone to pelletize it, and then they have to market that (and one of the big pelletizers down south just went bust).

By the time you're done, you may -- if the market holds up and nothing breaks -- have broken even on expenses with enough left over to feed the family some beans.

And anything less than 50 acres isn't even worth looking at, never mind moving the equipment onto to do the job.

If you have your own woodlot, and if you have your own chainsaw and safety equipment, and if you have a good splitter, and a truck or forwarder to move it to your cabin in the woods... and are young enough and strong enough, yeah, great stuff. For the average bloke on a suburban lot somewhere, maybe not so much.