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Whew I just finished loading up the back porch but I'm not sure how long it'll last until I have to refill because at least 1/3 (maybe even 1/2) is birch which burns hot, but fast. With the typical oak, cherry, and maple mix, a porch load typically lasts into January. After loading the porch I cut, split, and stacked the logs from a large locust tree that was still living when cut a few months back so this wood's wet. The old tree was a leaner and finally fell. Hated to see it fall but it'll make good firewood for next year. Needless to say how cold it gets will determine how much wood gets burned. I wonder what this winter's weather will be here in the mid-Atlantic region? Last winter was mild with this spring and summer cool and a little drier than normal. No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | ||
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I have 4-5 cords stacked up which would last me 3 years. Our place is easy to heat and stays warm for a long time. We haven't really started burning yet because it's been warm outside. | |||
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I have a woodstove, enjoy the burn. I double checked my chimney a few weeks ago, all good. The draw was weak during warm weather(burned some papers), all good now. I usually let the house temp get down some, then warm it up. It’s easy with the outside temps 40-50. I have some older wood I want to use up, great time with the modest fires. This is a good time of year for low utility bills. Last month was $75 heat & electricity combined. My usual time to cut firewood is late Winter to early Spring. I don’t look now, unless something falls in my lap. | |||
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Good for you having that much wood already ready, oldfireguy! I haven't started burning yet, I typically wait until temps drop down to 30's and under. It's still more like 50's day and upper 30's to low 40's at night here. I like to cut in Fall and early Spring. No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | |||
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Ah the good ol’ days… When I was in college 5 of us rented an old farm house on 100 acres built in the mid 1800’s in NH. Needless to say it had a big Papa Bear Fisher stove in the middle of the first floor living room and that puppy cranked out a lot of heat! The unfortunate part (if you can call it that ;-) ) is that 3 of the 5 people were girls and another guy and myself. We literally ordered a logging truck full of logs in the early Spring and over the next month each Saturday we would rent a hydraulic log splitter and proceeded to cut and split the entire load. In the end we had a total of 7 cords of wood in 3 neat stacks on the side of the front porch. We never went cold that winter but none of us stayed for another winter ! ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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I'd think 2 guys with 3 girls would keep warm with minimal additional heat.  Yeah it's one thing to be able to heat your home comfortably warm with a wood stove and cord or so of firewood. But 7 cords! That's too much work for me. No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | |||
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The baseboard heat keeps us warm enough early in the season, but sometime in November the stove gets fired up, and it's our primary heat source until spring. I always keep two years worth of firewood & we go through about 4-5 cords a year, depending on how hard & long the Winter is. ------------------------------------------------ "It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions, than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." Thomas Sowell | |||
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It is 100F today, so really no need to burn any wood just yet......I am ready though!! | |||
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During middle Dec 1972 enroute to Alaska(US Army) stopped off in northern Wisconsin at the wifes home and was invited to help Paw-in-law with a wood run.... Upon returning with a load and stacking was informed that several more trips would be needed... To me there was a very large supply already stacked. ..... Previous winter they had used 22cords of wood which was used as primary heat with natural gas heater as a floater. 2 story wood frame house w/basement and enclosed sun porch. .................... drill sgt. | |||
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Staying in a cabin in central Colorado. Heating with some nice aged wood. Really heats the place up fast and siting in chair and watching the flames brings back many memories. U.S. Army 11F4P Vietnam 69-70 NRA Life Member | |||
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22 cords of wood ? Holy crap .. | |||
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I expect to use 2-3 cords of wood. I have 2 cords that are 2-3 years seasoned, 3 more that are 1 year seasoned. I need to split some more. I started burning wood a couple of weeks ago, just because I like it. Birch and spruce is all we have. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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I had a large amount of wood from a half dead maple I paid a tree contractor to take down, which I bucked, split, and stacked myself. When I burned it last year, it didn't generate much heat without lots of fireplace reloads in the evenings, since apparently maple doesn't have as much energy density as say oak. So I won't be burning it this year, instead I'm burning it in a backyard fire pit. It's a fast burn, so after I'm done staring at the fire in the lawn chair, it's already burned down. Next year I'll probably buy some already dried oak firewood, unless I come across any free oak logs I can buck and haul home in my pickup. I work pretty quick with a chainsaw, a bucking thingy I made, and a couple large yard wagons. And, I enjoy it, it's therapy for me. Lover of the US Constitution Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster | |||
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LOL Rub it in!
Yes maybe even more than the utility savings just being toasty while watching the fire is what I appreciate most.
I burn roughly the same amount and try to stay ahead the same as you too. Being old makes the cutting, hauling, splitting, stacking a little more difficult but having a splitter and sometimes a loader really helps. No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | |||
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I've been heating over 50 years now with wood. The cutting/loading/hauling/ isn't so entertaining as it once was, so I just pay someone to do it. The electric splitter makes my shoulder appreciate its new life of luxury. Got 3+ cords from my locust grove and last year's blow down. Add a couple cords seasoned white oak and a couple of fir, and I'm ready for a couple years. Tidying up the wood shed the last month, amazing how much small debris needs to turn into just a pleasant little contemplation fire for a little relaxation. | |||
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My father died at age 93 in 2013. He told me about cutting firewood with a friend during the Great Depression for 50 cents a cord, and they split the money evenly. They used a 2 man crosscut saw. To lubricate the saw, they had a coke bottle containing kerosene, with a bunch of pine straw stuffed into the opening. They would "brush" the kerosene on the saw for lube. Makes me feel spoiled when I crank up my Husky saws. "While not every Democrat is a horse thief, every horse thief is a Democrat." HORACE GREELEY | |||
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We burn every winter, have for years. I cut up around 2 cords every spring and it's well seasoned by December when we start using the fire place. It help heats up the main living area and kitchen pretty well but that is about it. I had two large oaks come down in the back so I have plenty to work with next spring. At 76, I appreciate all the help I can get. .....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress. | |||
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It's 40 outside at the moment but it's 65 inside with no heat on so no fire yet but soon. Our log home will hold the heat until we get an extended cold spell. We have a dual fuel furnace but rarely use the propane and sometimes use the heat pump but we mostly burn wood. This will be our third winter on our propane tank and it's over half full. Living on 20 wooded acres gives us access to plenty of firewood. we burn mostly red & white oak and a little maple and sourwood. We are well stocked with seasoned wood. I practice Shinrin-yoku It's better to wear out than rust out Member NRA Member Georgia Carry | |||
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Do wood pellets count? 3/4-ton left from last season, 4 tons in storage delivered when I call. Other than a cleanup and test 2 weeks ago I hope to hold off light off until November. "No matter where you go - there you are" | |||
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A few of our friends who've burned wood for years have converted over to pellet stoves. They all love them, because they're much less work & less bother than burning wood. Wood is cheap & plentiful here in the mountains, and their only complaint is the price of the pellets, which seems to keep going up, like all other kinds of heating fuel. ------------------------------------------------ "It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions, than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." Thomas Sowell | |||
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