RE: Log Blog : Alaska Date 21st of May 2018 (Star Trek pun intended 😜)
That's quite the pile of wood!
I suppose you don't have access to some of the better hard woods such as oak, it looks like some softwood types and some popple on the pile. Of course, it's a bit hard to tell from the pictures.
When I was still homesteading back in the 1990s, we had an outdoor water boiler wood stove that worked really well for heating the house. The only problem with one of those is that you need electricity to operate the the automatic air damper and the water pump, which runs continuously to circulate the water from the boiler to the house and back. Ours ate about 5 full cords per winter, including spring and fall. I ran the boiler most of the year because we had a heat exchanger to keep the domestic hot water hot. That worked really well, but had a slower recovery time if you used all the hot water. That was never much of a problem for us though.
We have birch, cotton wood, alder, and spruce trees. They all make heat.