I'd stick with the pellet stove hands down. Much easier to feed, cleaner, you can fill it in the morning and leave for the day (with a bigger hopper maybe 2 days) produces far less ash to deal with and you don't smell like smokey the bear all the time. You don't have truck out to the wood pile in zero degree weather to grab logs. You can get a back up battery system to run if the power goes out. My buddy has a wood stove (similar size house) that he heats with and goes thru 6 chord a winter. I burn 4 ton of pellets. His cost for wood runs him a good $800 more than my pellets.
