I dunno about coal but I've been thinking of switching to propane. My house is deep into forest land and have 10s of thousands of trees around. Despite this, typically I just buy a couple of cords when needed because as you point out, it’s too danged much work, to cut up and split wood. But this stuff fell and couldn’t be left on the ground as it blocked passages for some of the bigger critters in the area.

Of course, once this is split, I won’t have to worry for about 3 years.