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I used to heat my house with wood in Upstate NY, using the oil fired boiler as a back-up. I didn't have many trees on my property so I had the logs delivered, then I would chunk, split, stack and season. We used 8 to 10 full cords each winter. When I got busier I had it delivered split. One time I bought a load of pallet wood......and non oil based heat. I don't that I've ever run across anyone allergic to saw dust. And last I checked most of those things would be considered exercise and thus good for you.
When we moved South I put in a cast iron insert for our fireplace. We had a tornado come through one year and took down 7 of our 8 trees, so I built a wood shed and filled that up. I was able to supply about 1/2 the heat for this much larger house. When my daughter turned 6 she started having trouble breathing during cold winter days, and we found out she had developed an allergy to the trace amounts of wood smoke and dust that the stove tends to generate.