We heat our house with wood too.  We currently have an acura integra, and
two vanagons.

Luckily, My neightbor has a pickup truck, and we go to cut/get wood
together.  He's moving next year though,  so I suspect we'll be faced with a
similar problem.

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Joel Hembel
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:46 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Which automobile to keep and which to sell :-<

How about a light hitch and a small trailer behind the vanagon for the
wood...........................

Doug Alcock wrote:

> From: Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU> on 09/13/2000 11:09 AM
>
> Please respond to Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>
>
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> cc:
> Client:
> Subject:  Which automobile to keep and which to sell :-<
>
> Hey Matthew ---- a vanagon in the hand is worth two in the future. How
> much firewood can you get in the vanagon???
>
> Cheers,
> Doug Alcock
> '84 westy
> Toronto, Canada
>
> <<snip>>Good morning vanagon support group,
> my wife and I have a dilema.  Here is the rundown. We are both grad
> students and we own three cars.  We would like to cut back to two cars
> only. Now here is the kicker, which one to sell?
> #1 1990 honda accord. fast, 36mpg, relaible.  automatic, so she is
> comfortable driving it
> #2 1970 Ford F100 truck.  New engine and transmission.  We heat our house
> with fire (we have no other means!) and need to haul about 4 cords of wood
> a year with it, plus other homeowner needs.  And it is a good beater that
> i don't mind drivign in the snow and ice with.
> #3 84 vanagon. runs great. great for camping. great in the snow.  love to
> trip in it and in general great rig.
>
> Do you see the problem?  Selling the honda isn't an option... and her
> parents gave it to her a few years ago and it'd be a dick move to sell
> it... inlaws...  Then again, if i sell the bus my wife promised me that
> she'll let me get a new one after grad school. Maybe a syncro that needs a
> new engine so i can put in an inline 4.... Or if we sell the truck, we
> still need to get lots of fire wood and would have to beg/borrow/steel a
> truck for that.  Hmmm, I guess i could see my Chain Saw in my bus. It's a
> stihl- both fine German Engineering.
>
> I could get about 1000$ for the truck. It is only 2wd so that knock the
> value way down in this area. How much could i get for a weekender with
> alloy painted wheels, 100K on the hamster-wheel, clean, rust free,
> california bus with no dents over a few door-dings.
>
> Thanks
>
> Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
> Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
> University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu<<snip>>