Wood pile
How is your wood pile making out after the polar vortex?
I am down to one cord. I have a bin in the basement that I fill with wood and it will hold a weeks worth of wood.
With this cold weather I had to refill bin every two days. I had both the wood furnace and insert going day and night.
I am down to one cord. I have a bin in the basement that I fill with wood and it will hold a weeks worth of wood.
With this cold weather I had to refill bin every two days. I had both the wood furnace and insert going day and night.
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Still have a few cords stacked. Also, have quite a few down and standing dead ash. 0 -
Luckily I also have a few on the ground and have girdled some more that are ready to be harvested. 0 -
I had a stack of 6 really clean pallets and parts of a good sized shipping crate built with 2x4 framework set aside in the garage
I used a sawzall to section things to similar dimensions that fit well into the fireplace hearths - and ended up with several nice sized burn piles for each of the 3 fireplaces
Also had the stump hearts from 3 apple trees that had any extraneous roots and limbs removed that I cut into slices with with a small chainsaw - dense solid wood
I divided that up into 3 piles of odd size sections and slices (easy to handle but perhaps bigger or heavier than a standard cord of lumber split log) and staged them on the hearths to be added to the pre-made burn piles already stacked in place and ready to go
It made for 4 days of nice fire and heat during the extreme cold period - and had come to me free of charge - only requiring some labor and effort to get good use out of - without putting a serious hole in my regular wood fuel supply
Mike0 -
Im about 5 years ahead, I have a mixed hardwood tree farm so Im well supplied. But.... I burned twice as much as normal. It was brutal. I heat the house with a wood fired boiler. Its 40 here today so Im cleaning out my boiler pipes for the next cold spell. 0 -
I am still good. I have another years worth of wood cut and covered.
I have burnt probably 4 cord of wood and a ton of coal0 -
We have 18 acres of woods, and last winter we harvested 64 hardwood trees. So we have tree tops in huge piles all over the place. I would guess about 20 years worth of firewood. I still have several split and dried cords along the barn that we use when needed.
So far this year we've only had 2 fires during the coldest nights here.0 -
I have an outside wood stove. Have used a lot of my wood, mostly locust. I have a lot of poplar and ash in a shed for not so cold weather.
Supposed to be warmer this week so I?ll get my stack replenished for next year. I abhor cutting wood with insulated coveralls on.
There?s a lot of big dead ash trees on a property next to me, but the absentee owner won?t even talk to me about cutting.0 -
I have about a dozen bags of pellets in the garden shed.[:)] 0 -
I have a fireplace insert. I can't figure out how I'm supposed to stay up all night and stoke the fire, when it's needed most, and then go about in the daytime living my life. I think it's time for an outside woodburner. My general heating is an oil fired boiler so it would tie in easily. 0 -
I had to turn the thermostat up 2 degrees during the coldest days. Of course I am burning free natural gas for heat. [:)] 0 -
My ugly monster propane pig tank is down to 25% as I type this. I'm supposed to have monthly fill ups and my last fill was DEC. 24.
My next bill is going to put me on Ramon noodles until Spring!0 -
no more wood heat...prepaid propane at the two rural places...much easier to work...just write the check and prepaid has fueled me thru a price rise one winter from $1.31 to $4 ....saved lots and had carry over about 1/2 of next year..95% efficient helps big time...plan ahea d. 0 -
I keep about 3 years worth of wood split and stacked. I use an outside stove and fire it during the summer for domestic hot water . 0 -
I ended up with a bunch of free wood from a friend who owns a landscaping / lawn service company
I have some apple and crab apple and willow piled up - mostly large thick branch sections rather than the main trunk pieces
I also have a good stack of rose bush cuttings - from a property were they had been permitted to over grow or run wild - were professional upkeep and pruning or shaping and culling had not been done in decades - it's amazing how think and dense the branches and main trunks can get as well as the root ball and stem system
I have some oak and ash and and poplar as my main sources of split stacked sections of what we would call standard fireplace logs
There is always a pile of clean pine and lumber scraps and pallet pieces - which does the job but seems to burn fast and is my least favorite as far as sight and sound and smell when burned
I also really like dried aged pine cones - I keep a half bbl of them in the garage - and while it can be a pain in the ash to maintain in the hearth we love the smell and sound and scene when they are added
Mike0 -
Put a big dent in my wood pile and propane consumption...used 20% of my propane in the past two weeks about 55 gallons! 0 -
"There?s a lot of big dead ash trees on a property next to me, but the absentee owner won?t even talk to me about cutting."
Too bad chainsaws don't have headlights.The "3 S of wood poaching": Saw, Stack, Shutup.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Mobuck
"There?s a lot of big dead ash trees on a property next to me, but the absentee owner won?t even talk to me about cutting."
Too bad chainsaws don't have headlights.The "3 S of wood poaching": Saw, Stack, Shutup.
I'm not one for thieving firewood (or anything else)
A few years ago my late uncle allowed a down and out guy to cut some downed trees on his 40 acre property. The guy ended up cutting himself badly with his chainsaw. Sued my uncle and won a big $$ prize from the pockets of both the uncle and his insurance company.[:(!]
There are a lot of good reasons you should never let people have rights onto your property!0 -
quote:Originally posted by jwb267
I am still good. I have another years worth of wood cut and covered.
I have burnt probably 4 cord of wood and a ton of coal
Do not hear much about people burning coal now days. Did Al Gore shut it down or ???
Was more common than wood burning in some states few years ago.0 -
Gotta watch that coal. Burns REAL hot. My departed father had 6 or 7 BIG pieces of coal he left in his basement. When we cleaned up the house after his passing to sell it, I brought them back home. Put 1 piece in our wood burner and WOW-the bottom cast iron belly starting glowing red hot. Got it out and thru it outside and it glowed for 3 days[:0] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Okie743
quote:Originally posted by jwb267
I am still good. I have another years worth of wood cut and covered.
I have burnt probably 4 cord of wood and a ton of coal
Do not hear much about people burning coal now days. Did Al Gore shut it down or ???
Was more common than wood burning in some states few years ago.
When I was a kid, we had a big coal furnace. One year, coal jumped from $7. Aton to $11 a ton. Mom and Dad was stressing about the price increase.
Shows how old I am.0 -
jimdeere-Remember the "clinkers"[:(!] 0 -
Oh, yeah. And some of the coal chunks were so big they had to be busted up.
My sister was new born and dad worked out of town so it was my job to stoke the furnace in the basement.
Not complaining, lots of folks had it way worse than us.0 -
I just got two dump truck loads of wood delivered on Saturday and Sunday. Each load is 6 Nissan pickup truck loads.
I already had enough wood for 2 years. Now I am 3 years ahead.
These deliveries were red oak, and cherry.
Gotta go outside now and stack that cherry in the wood shed. Some of it I have to split, it is already split but some of the sticks are a little big. Real nice wood.0
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