As a matter of fact back in the mid 70's I once lived in a place for three years that took 13 cords of wood to heat each winter (back when winters required that we heat from mid-September to the end of May). Two of us felled all the trees ourselves (mostly Engleman spruce) with chainsaws, cut it into rounds, loaded it onto a truck, unloaded it, split it with mauls and stacked it. You can't get into the woods where I live to cut wood in the winter due to snow depth (right now we are at about 200 inches). Felling big trees in dense forest is one of the more exciting and dangerous jobs I've ever done.
But, I still wonder if the transformation trees go through to survive freezing temperatures has benefits once the wood is cut. Seems like it might.
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