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Well, I had wood. It's all gone and I'm burning scraps. The gas man cometh.
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  • allen griggs
    "Kinda hard to believe that dry wood will give off more creosote than green.
    It's pretty much the reverse of that with most wood.........."

    It is hard to believe, but it is true.
    In his book "Sold Fuels Encyclopedia" Jay Shelton proves it. Mr. Shelton got ten wood stoves rigged up in his lab. I think it was the Fisher Mama Bear stove. Five of them he burned with green wood, five with dry wood. He proved that the green wood gives off LESS creosote.
    This applies only to a wood stove. In an open fireplace, the green wood gives off more creosote.
    By the way, if you want a great source of information on wood stoves, google up this book. I bought one for my neighbor a year ago, found one brand new for $15. This book has a list of all types of wood, and their heat value. In other words, it will tell you how much heat is given off by a cord of red oak, how much by poplar, etc.
    Also has very detailed instructions on how to install a wood stove, according to code. Use of heat shields etc.
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  • pabooger
    Come on up Beth I'll let ya split and cut all ya want!!! Larry and I will go fishing!!![:D]
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  • spryor
    quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
    "Kinda hard to believe that dry wood will give off more creosote than green.
    Jay Shelton proves it. Mr. Shelton got ten wood stoves rigged up in his lab. I think it was the Fisher Mama Bear stove. Five of them he burned with green wood, five with dry wood. He proved that the green wood gives off LESS creosote.
    This applies only to a wood stove. In an open fireplace, the green wood gives off more creosote.
    Sounds like the same test that I saw pictured in the Mother
    Earth mag in the lat 70's or so.
    They had a creosote trap on the bottom of each chimney, and showed
    the levels when finished testing.
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  • allen griggs
    It is probably the same test. This book was published 25 or 30 years ago.
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  • American_Nimrod
    Wow, you guys got it easy...

    Here in Western Massachusetts a cord of cut split & delivered hardwood firewood goes for between $100 - $140. Once the season sets in the price goes up to around $200 - $210 per cord. I think a tri-axle load of unseasoned log length goes for between $400 - $600.

    Thankfully I own enough wooded acres heavily populated w/Oak, Maple, Beech, and Birch to fell, cut, split, and stack my own and have for almost 20 years. But I tore a ligament in my shoulder this past year swinging my 12 pound Collin's axe that I split all of my annual 6 cord of wood with that I burn every year. I am now facing arthroscopic surgery to repair the tear.

    I think I am going to break down and buy a wood pellet furnace this year, I don't want to disable myself out of hunting/shooting... I have heated my entire home with a Homewood wood burning forced hot air furnace for several years now. I can't afford to pay the electric bill here in MASS if I run my electric baseboard heat that the house was built with...
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  • glyn
    Northern kalifornia codepaul.Everything is expensive here especially fuels and essentials.
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  • Ray Boone
    My cousin in NE Iowa uses a great deal of Hickory in the smokehouse for the meat market. With a lot of orchards being taken out here in Washington I send a batch of apple his way on occasion, but about the only wood around our house is in the form of stock blanks: Bastogne, Claro, and English Walnut. Lets see, I got them in the early 70's- they ought to be getting just about seasoned.
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  • Odawgp
    quote:Originally posted by pabooger
    We live right in the middle of the Pa. hardwood forest, wood used to be reaadily available and cheap, now the damm particle board plants and paper mills take all the culls, so firewood is getting hard to get and much more expensive! Still much cheaper than other places.

    $45 cord , $500 a tri axel load


    $165 a cord here.... saw, gas, oil, priceless
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  • A J Christ
    Burn waste oil here. Used motor oil. ent through about 500 gallons this year heating the shop. Free heat.
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  • FrancF
    Lol, a cord of red .oak/madrone split seasoned will cost about $450.
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  • Jacob2008
    quote:Originally posted by FrancF
    Lol, a cord of red .oak/madrone split seasoned will cost about $450.


    Really? i can get it for 150-170 if you were in missouri
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  • spryor
    quote:Originally posted by Jacob2008
    quote:Originally posted by FrancF
    Lol, a cord of red .oak/madrone split seasoned will cost about $450.


    Really? i can get it for 150-170 if you were in missouri
    Shhhhhh!!!!!!
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  • 11b6r
    Got about one cord of DRY white oak left- should run us rest of the season. Just took down one tree in the yard that had died- Lord, had forgotten how nice it is to use a chainsaw with a new chain and bar- just pulls itself into the wood, spits out the BIG chips! We have a heat pump, but wood/coal furnace hooked into the ductwork in parallell- pick which one you want by moving a duct damper. When the power goes out, is nice to still have heat.
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