I think I am about finished... with firewood

[okie]

wtf...wow --talk about gov control!

my point exactly , a good forestry program might have saved some of of the waste

yes you are correct

 

[timeout]

My dear, now deceased friend from Oklahoma used to say "why should I cut firewood when I can get propane on credit." I don't see how anyone could argue with that

 

[Will Henry]

We heat exclusively with wood but I doubt we burn more than 3 cords a year; if that. This year is starting out pretty good for wood use. We live in a smallish log house (24x44 with a loft) with the wood stove in the basement. Snowing briskly today and we likely won't see the ground again 'til March or April. I've hauled in three dump truck loads of pine and larch and split it with a maul. I'm 71. WH

 

[okie]

70's here all week---water troughs never froze once last winter---I cannot imagine snow for 6+ months
I dont know why i got this weird font???

 

[rjtfroggy]

How do you burn pine with out making creosote and tar the height of the chimney?
If I was a little younger I would move south and build a log house using cedar for the exterior with 6" interior walls insulated and sheet rocked.
Might burn a cord or two for the winter.

 

[JFrank]

How do you burn pine with out making creosote and tar the height of the chimney?
If I was a little younger I would move south and build a log house using cedar for the exterior with 6" interior walls insulated and sheet rocked.
Might burn a cord or two for the winter.

We burn pine and larch , I’ll have to keep my eye on the creosote

 

[Will Henry]

How do you burn pine with out making creosote and tar the height of the chimney?
If I was a little younger I would move south and build a log house using cedar for the exterior with 6" interior walls insulated and sheet rocked.
Might burn a cord or two for the winter.

If you burn hot fires and don't close the stove right down, you will not creosote your chimney. Lodgepole pine or white pine is OK but bull pine is too pitchy. I let the stove run wide open for a half hour or so in the morning and this keeps the chimney clean. My Selkirk chimney has been in use for over 25 years and has never needed sweeping. WH

 

[rjtfroggy]

I must be doing something wrong. I keep the breach temp (right at top of stove) between 375-450, except for a few hours at night when it goes down to around 300 and my chimney needs to be cleaned every year, some times twice, and this is burning well seasoned hard woods ( oak, hickory, maple).
This year I am going to try some of the chemical removers that you put on the fire to see if they do as addvertized not the log but the powder. Friend of mine swears by the Potatoe Peel method says he has never had to clean the chimney.

 

[hogpatrol]

Here in northern Delaware, I burn about two cords a winter, have about eight cords on hand, now mostly locust and osage orange with a bit of cherry, walnut. mulberry, ash and oak. I use pine for starting, Don't burn anything less than two years of seasoning but mostly the wood I've had for three or four years. My favorite wood is apple. Chimney cleaning every year but have never had a problem with creosote. Have been lucky the last few years getting old locust fence posts and oak rails from local horse farms. It also helps to have a relative in the tree business.

 

[skeeljc]

I did the firewood thing for fifteen years. Put up ten 5x8 stacks every year. Heated a large log home. Then I moved to Iowa to a townhouse which I can heat with gas for less than $500 per year. I do miss getting out and working with the wood but my back likes where I am now.

 

[sundance]

I have about 30 skids stacked with local cottonwood trees cut and split on my place. All the local coal mines closed 10 years ago. I really miss that coal heat. Only fill the stove half as many times as wood. Burned much hotter too.

 

[skeeljc]

I have about 30 skids stacked with local cottonwood trees cut and split on my place. All the local coal mines closed 10 years ago. I really miss that coal heat. Only fill the stove half as many times as wood. Burned much hotter too.

Cottonwood, really? I would never waste time and fuel on cottonwood. The last wood on my list of what is good to burn is poplar and that is questionable.

When I lived in Indiana there was plenty of red oak, white oak, hickory, black locust, ash, and elm to burn. We never did fool with cottonwood or poplar.

 

[argrendel]

I did the firewood thing for fifteen years. Put up ten 5x8 stacks every year. Heated a large log home. Then I moved to Iowa to a townhouse which I can heat with gas for less than $500 per year. I do miss getting out and working with the wood but my back likes where I am now.

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For a tractor like that, I’d start burning wood!

 

[Will Henry]

I don't close the stove down and let a fire smolder overnight. My stove is either hot or going out. I figure it does me good to have to haul my butt out of the chair from time to time. This is why I don't have creosote building up in my chimney. WH