This is the last year that I will be doing firewood. The weather today was about as perfect as I could ask for in November, so while checking moisture content of the wood, I had to take this photo. Hope you all enjoy!
I think I am about finished... with firewood
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bluealtered
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Thats a beautiful day for just about anything. Ours is spitting snow and will be for the next 4-5 months.
I hear you there!
I have been heating with firewood all my life (though as a child I think I hindered my father's firewood work more than I helped) and have tried to go into each winter with 15+ cord. I try to stay 2 seasons ahead to account for the unforeseeable as well as the drying time for red oak (about all I burn).
My father still heats with wood as well, but he is getting to that age where he won't be able to do it all himself much longer. I was planning to buy a commercial splitter to up my production ability to feed both my furnace and his, but for the price of one we could change systems and buy fuel for those systems for the next decade.
Was a real eye opener.
Your tired ? I am 82 and still putting up 6-10 cords and enjoying every minute of the nice wood stove and heat all winter, when the snow and cold is flying.
LarryDScott
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Sounds like you have government bureaucrats thinking for ya !!!!
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I'm not sure if where you live it's ridiculously cold, your house is poorly insulated, or your stove is inefficient, but 10-12 cords a year is a crazy amount of wood! I got a very efficient Pacific Energy stove (non-catalytic) and it's saved so much wood by being so efficient.
If you're thinking about getting a splitter look at the kinetic flywheel type splitters. They are crazy fast on cycle times and you can even get them to run off of a 220vac motor if you prefer that over instead of gas. It's a lot quieter, but obviously that would mean you can't use it everywhere like you can with gas.
If you're thinking about getting a splitter look at the kinetic flywheel type splitters. They are crazy fast on cycle times and you can even get them to run off of a 220vac motor if you prefer that over instead of gas. It's a lot quieter, but obviously that would mean you can't use it everywhere like you can with gas.
Lookin good fellas!!! Nothing like wood heat for comfort!!! I've been burning for 25 yrs and was working a little wood yesterday myself. My set up though...propane furnace is primary and my fireplace is secondary. So, when I burn, the furnace doesn't run. This allows me to be as lazy or efficient as I want. No comparison between LP and wood!!
I heat with wood. Usually cut about 10-12 full cord a year. This year looking like less at this point. Haven't started cutting. Being retired, I like making it my winter project. Cut it as I need it. Usually an hour a day. I enjoy it actually. Father-in-law is 93. Still cutting and splitting (with maul) 3-4 cord a year. He cuts year round. Looking at him I think, it's probably what's kept him alive and well all these years. He doesn't sit down very often. I'll be doing it till I die. It's something I look forward to every winter believe it or not.
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I'm with you. Keep on cutting. That 82 is just a number.
I’m 72, love splitting wood by hand. Been doing it all my life except in Florida.
we do have a gas furnace now though.
I reckon I’d like it a lot more if I didn’t HAVE to do it.
For myself, I count the actual cord/volume, so 128(ish) cubic feet. But I cut my pieces at about 16" to make them easier to get into the boiler safely. I used to cut them at 24" but when I got married my wife couldn't get wood into the boiler without literally chucking it in, so I backed the length off. Honestly makes things easier all around.
6MMsteve
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we call them riks in Ky bout 3 1/2 ricks to a cord pendin on the length. I use to burn bout 12 rickys or 4 cords..after we finished corn every year..we done wood..then started strippin tobacco...got done with tobacco bout 2 days before xmas every year..then fed cows all winter...and maybe plowed some
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