Free sugar maple and all I have to do is cut it up and haul it away? Why thank you, I'd love to! Wood is green and will need to season for a year after I split it, but will be splendid when it's ready.

I know firewood well. It heated our house up until I moved south in 2000. Our stove was a Vermont Castings "Defiant" model with top load. We used to burn 12-16 cord a year in western NY. We had 65 acres to pick from, and always did our best to scavenge those brought down by storms, but we mainly burnt ash, elm, maple, and oak.

Nosler, if you used 12-16 cords in one year, you needed a new stove badly A good stove in Siberia would only burn half that. Unless you were burning rolls of toilet paper

My climate is a heck of lot more winter like than W. NY and that is a good 3-4 years worth of firewood keeping the fire buring day and night.

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Originally posted by 280nosler:
I know firewood well. It heated our house up until I moved south in 2000.

We have a "Clydesdale" insert by Hearthstone. We usually burn 4-6 face cord a winter (although last winter we burned 8). We have lots of ash now as all the trees around are killed off by the EAB, but I never pass an opportunity for good firewood like hard maple, hickory, black locust and oak.

I'm still in western NY.

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
Nosler, if you used 12-16 cords in one year, you needed a new stove badly A good stove in Siberia would only burn half that. Unless you were burning rolls of toilet paper

IT was upstate NY, where "winter" typically starts in late October and ends in March. And yes, the stove was made in the early 1980's, and was heating a 1900 sq foot house that was a raised ranch.

I used to have that addiction too....when I heated with wood. It's been quite a few years now. I kind of miss, but then I don't.

To burn that much wood you would have to loading the stove every 4 hours 24-7.
16 cord wood is over 2000 cubic feet

That is insane even if winter is 12 months long. Which it isn't in W. NY

The addiction can be strong young padawan. When the tree guys start calling you for deliveries is when you've graduated.

We have lived in this house since the middle of 1985. Our primary source of heat comes from a fireplace insert that we have had since shortly after we moved here. Some of our wood comes from "blow-downs" on our place. For several years we got free wood delivered to our place by a couple guys doing tree work. Saved him money as he would have had to pay to take it to the landfill. Told him to bring anything but pine. And he didn't need to cut it to stove length.

I have cut down several trees on the lot that needed to come down for one reason or another.

Saved a lot of money doing the cutting and splitting myself.

Still have several cords of wood stacked and covered which should last until wife and I are too old/lame to haul it into the house.

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Originally posted by Rev. A. J. Forsyth:
The addiction can be strong young padawan. When the tree guys start calling you for deliveries is when you've graduated.

I think I am there. My neighbor is a tree guy and when working nearby will drop off. He delivered a few weeks ago and I turned this:



Into this:

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
To burn that much wood you would have to loading the stove every 4 hours 24-7.
16 cord wood is over 2000 cubic feet

That is insane even if winter is 12 months long. Which it isn't in W. NY

Probably "face" cords.

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Originally posted by REdwin89:

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
To burn that much wood you would have to loading the stove every 4 hours 24-7.
16 cord wood is over 2000 cubic feet

That is insane even if winter is 12 months long. Which it isn't in W. NY

Probably "face" cords.

Sorry, yes face cord.

Our face cords were cut to 16" lengths. Our "ricks" were 5.5 feet tall and 12 feet long, meaning they were roughly 2 face cords per rick, and would use 6-8 ricks depending on the severity of the winter. This was not that unusual for most of our neighbors (all of whose homes were 1600-2100 sq feet).

My best friend's father used one of their garage bays to stack firewood 6" tall from wall to wall (probably 10'), and about 8' deep. We were not so lucky - we kept ours under tarps outside - about 40' from the garage door.

I'll play...

I've hooked up with a pro arborist in Denver. Like elk above, my guy needs to get rid of several trees per week. When he gets a job with hardwood close to me he texts me to see if I want the wood. he cuts it all up into manageable length size and I haul it away.

This is the wood I've got since mid January. It's 6 1/2 cords, excluding the smaller stack near the front which I started stacking this past weekend. The main pile is 10' wide, 14' long and 6' high.

I burn wood 24 X 7 from late Sept to late April. I burn about 3 cords per year. I hope to double the existing pile, which will give me about 12 cords. That should last 4 years or so



I usually keep 2 stacked piles. Here's my pile that is all dried and ready to burn. I'll burn this wood this winter, and stack more here..

that would be a great hobby for me ,
I need the exercise

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Originally posted by Rev. A. J. Forsyth:
The addiction can be strong young padawan. When the tree guys start calling you for deliveries is when you've graduated.

Rev.
That pile of logs reminds me of when I skipped school and got caught...dad had a load of logs delivered and he had me cut and split all of it before I could begin my life again....

We used to follow the power line guys and we’d winch up whatever locust they felled...locust burns long and hot. Glad dad built a splitter.

Ah, yes... I know the compulsion well. If a tree falls, it must be bucked and split!

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We used to follow the power line guys and we’d winch up whatever locust they felled...locust burns long and hot. Glad dad built a splitter.

Locust is crazy. I think it is second on the BTU per chord scale, just below Hop Hornbeam.

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I think I am there. My neighbor is a tree guy and when working nearby will drop off. He delivered a few weeks ago and I turned this:

Excellent!

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
To burn that much wood you would have to loading the stove every 4 hours 24-7.
16 cord wood is over 2000 cubic feet

That is insane even if winter is 12 months long. Which it isn't in W. NY

House could be very poorly insulated, or perhaps they like it 90F inside.

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Originally posted by Rev. A. J. Forsyth:

Locust is crazy. I think it is second on the BTU per chord scale, just below Hop Hornbeam.

Did someboday say locust? Great stuff! (Photo from last winter)

I am guessing you guys have a hydraulic splitter, surely you arent swinging a sledge/maul to split that quantity.
If not I dont want to arm wrestle or generally piss you guys off.