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Usually pay around $100 +/- in taxes. I try and cut it pretty close, so they do not get a tax free loan from me.
Getting back almost $400 this year. Paid for the tax return, and 4 $75 mixed hardwood loads of nice dry firewood. Rounded up F150 loads, full size bed. Stopped at the place across the street from the sawmill I used to work at, and set it up on the way home.
Will store all this wood inside of one of my sheds, similar to what you have Allen. (In order to super dry it.)
Plenty of wood on hand to cut/split. Would not meet the low moisture requirements of my new Woodstove. Will get ahead of the curve next year.
Woo Hoo! Monkey off my back.
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More restrictive than my old unit. Yes, it will burn, but low temp, high residual content in the unit/pipe. Will not get fully up to high burn/yield. 17% moisture or below is recommended.
Once you introduce really dry wood, efficiency goes way up. Full burn, is then acheived. Lot's to learn on these new units. It has a burn and a re-burn technology. Moisture content has to be low enough for it to reach a higher temp. to be effective.
I will get ahead of the split firewood scenario this year. Need to stay a year ahead. I have tons of downed Red/White oak logs ready to go. 2-3 years worth.
Tax return pays for my firewood this year. I did not anticipate getting anything back, so I am happy.
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Sounds good, you will like that new Pacific Energy stove. 0 -
Funny you should mention firewood...
One of my tight and close friends (I am his daughters godfather) owns a smallish landscaping and handyman business and I get much of our firewood from him usually at a super discount...
And the two master suite one floor California king rancher with detached garage that makaila purchased has a colonial sized brick fireplace in the living room - full brick wall and brick hearth - salvaged railroad ties mantle...
Both master bedrooms have small condo sized fireplaces done at an angle in one corner...
The Covered rear patio / porch has a cast iron Antique Petite Pot Belly Wood or Coal Stove - refurbished and refinished on its own little firebrick platform...
The detached 2 car garage has a1/9
Comforter Stove Works (1976) Cast Iron Wood Stove in the centre of the rear wall - in the workshop alcove
It has its own round profile venting duct work - and there is also an inline exhaust boosting electric fan in the wall operated by a pull chain switch - and it has a firebrick backsplash...
We also have a small fire pit in the back yard - kind of a stone and brick fire tub with a raised cover made of copper that gets filled with pallet scraps and left over contractors or builders lumber scraps and cast offs...
What can I say - makaila loves fireplaces and hearths and mantles and wood stoves and wood / coal heaters and fire pits and burn cans - burn cages and fire pits - jar candles...
And as silly as it sounds the fact that I religiously maintain and stock and clean and monitor and refill / refuel the fire containment objects - it seems ridiculous to me but my obtaining and prepping firewood and coal and scrap pallets and carpentry remnants ...
Pine cones and needles and branch bundles shipping tubes and old newspaper and flame color shifting powder...
The fact that I am always on top of things and always prepped in advance and ready to go - that I think of interesting methods of stacking wood and combining shapes and sizes and species and thicknesses and cuts of wood like I was country living magazine or norm Abrahams...
She really gets a kick out of it - she appreciates that behavior and those qualities - she feels calm and relaxed and stress free and loved and taken care of or embraced and hugged as the result of my ADD ADHD obsessive compulsive recreational fire display behavior has always seemed a bit odd to me - a bit counter intuitive from my perspective - but if buying a home full of wood stoves and fireplaces makes her happy - if locating and taking ownership of a guy with a current and valid man card who can and does proactively take care of and handle and prepare and maintain this part of her home and this part of her life makes her happy and brings her joy that count me in - I will be that guy for her and will be happy to provide the service and the companionship...
My landscaping friend just brought me a truck bed load of apple tree stump wood chunks and wedges - along with a trash can full of thick branch and limb sections...
From an apple tree Grove that they helped remove for a developer building town homes and condos...
Also got maybe a half cord of paper birch - a half cord of cherry wood - a quarter cord of hickory - a half cord of pine...
All aged and kiln dried and seasoned and a good start on the prep for the common fall and winter seasons...
I think I did good - please let me know how I did and what you think - I appreciate your feedback and your hints / tips / lore.
Mike
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Sounds good Mike. If it is "Kiln dried," you did really good.
I've been stressing not having enough really dried firewood to utilize my new high efficiency unit, and high $$ woodstove/insert.
Now all I have to worry about is stacking it inside. Should have plenty of wood for the winter. Claim is I will burn 1/2 as much wood with 2X as much heat.
Tax return, and what I sold my woodstove for, is about $800. Good start to the season/winter.
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I have two very large red oaks in my yard over 100 feet tall and over 4 feed in Dia. Already talked with someone to take one all the way down and trim the other one. $600 to take one down and leave the wood. $1000 to trim the other and remove all the trimmings. I might have him leave the trimmings and give to locals.
Guess I will burn up at least one chainsaw before i get finished.0 -
I quit firewood about 5 years ago after i sold out my sawmill/pallet business and then 2 winters back I finally had to quit helping cut firewood for others after sending a day out side in -30 degree weather , that put me in the hospital over night and the next day, now i just call the LP company and they deliver 0
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