Who is cutting wood?

[MTT]

Dude you get about half the BTUs from lodgepole as you do oak. Sure "it burns just fine". So does a cardboard box. If you're paying a little more than I am but you're getting lodgepole pine and I'm getting oak and sugar maple.....well.....you do the math.


I gotta say - if it were me, I'd spring for the hardwood. Out there, BTU/$ is probably about the same and you can just stuff the stove and forget about it.

I guess it depends on where you live. I had a fire last night first time this fall, had to throw the windows open to let the heat out.

i cannot imagine it getting so cold I wanted Hotter burning wood.
I mostly burn pine cuz that what we got in the Sierra

BTW Not cutting any wood this year. Call the wood guy they push it off the truck in my driveway
Getting really to buy 2 cords @ 180$ per - Delivered

[XXX-er]

yup burn whatever is common to where you live, there is pine sitting in slash piles on the way to the hill <20min away for anybody who wants to pull it out, but if I burnt wood and had the room to get it dumped I would just order up a 7 axle truck of pine slice off what you need like a loaf of bread which would probably make almost 20 cords

sure its 1000-1200$ but you would spend that in truck & chainsaw fuel/ wear n tear and of course the physio bills

[rippinstyle]

Photo from one month ago. About half is split so far and stacking that half now. So much rain this summer in summit co that made it hard to keep it dry. Should be about 5 chords, with the two leftover from last winter. Here we go...

[DougW]

yup burn whatever is common to where you live, there is pine sitting in slash piles on the way to the hill <20min away for anybody who wants to pull it out, but if I burnt wood and had the room to get it dumped I would just order up a 7 axle truck of pine slice off what you need like a loaf of bread which would probably make almost 20 cords

sure its 1000-1200$ but you would spend that in truck & chainsaw fuel/ wear n tear and of course the physio bills

I know a logger who does that, it works for him as he has one of those out side boilers which can take a 20" round 24"- 30" long and he uses a whole truck load ~ 17 cords in a heating season ( lodge and house). Its all just dead fall stuff. Really only paying trucking cost. He still has to cut it but very little effort for BTU as fewer cuts and no splitting.

[XXX-er]

I don't think those remote burners are very efficent I could see a truck load lasting 3 years, there are partial truck loads of pine dumped all over the place on peoples 5 acre rural parcels around here

[DougW]

I don't think those remote burners are very efficent I could see a truck load lasting 3 years, there are partial truck loads of pine dumped all over the place on peoples 5 acre rural parcels around here

I have heard that as they are going all the time , but with this guy its a big lodge 4000 sq so his heating load would be 3-4 times that of a normal person. We only used 3 cords last year and after next year clean up should have 12 cords in the wood shed. But after than I'll have to think about paying or getting wood.

[FrankZappa]

Taking this year off. Racked up enough over the last few seasons to get ahead (I hope).

[riser4]

Growing up we had a wood burner in the basement. We went through 9 large pick-up (long box) a year. I remember carrying wood when I was 4 and my parents gave us kids a penny a stick.

Your parents PAID you to carry firewood?!?!? I was to told to shut up and haul it if I wanted to be warm.

[Buster Highmen]

time to teach the boy to chop wood buster.
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Oh believe me, he's out with me trying. But c'mon he's 12. THese rounds are like 18"x16" and tough. Lots of have to split with the wedge.

So this weekend I reacquainted myself with my chainsaw. It's that love/hate thing. Hate the noise and smoke and honestly the thing scares me. But I slid on a sharpened chain and oh lawdee it cuts like butter.

So did some trimming here and there and cleared the fallen alders from our trails so we can ride mtbikes again on them. Then borrowed the inlaws woodsplitter and spent 5 hours today and laid in another cord + with the family out there, everyone pulling, pushing massive chunks, stacking, sweating. Broasting hot in the sun, so the pink thing got out a beach umbrella and I pounded it in so we could at least work away in the shade instead of the scalding sun.

Last was a dash over to the bill's place to drag a 500+lb stump onto the '58 work truck. He was jammed with a block and tackle on another car and I came in with a couple come alongs and we jimmied that monster up into the truck bed. I'm played.

[Meadow Skipper]

This week at work:


I can't get a permit to get my home stuff on accounta the shutdown. First world problem.

[Cabinfever]

2 cords in the wood shed, with another 4 stacked in rounds. Split by hand. I sit at a desk all day and breaking wood is my therapy/exercise program.

[~mikey b]

Oak.....

[bushman]

Chipping away at the pile.

[bushman]

And the reload. Mostly ash with some oak.

[XXX-er]

we spent 2 days cutting up 4.5 cords and long lining it into the Hankin hut and Hankin lookout, if yer ever up there by all means light a fire but remember that is some damned expensive wood

[sb]

4 cords hauled and stacked, ready for winter.

[Buster Highmen]

3+ cords split and stacked under tarps or the woodshed. phew...

[~mikey b]

don't forget the kindling...



although I can't say I use a ton - now that the stove's been going for a few days it will probably have hot coals in it for the next few months

[sb]

I like to use Fat wood for starting fires, 3 or 4 pieces does the trick.

[DougW]

don't forget the kindling...


although I can't say I use a ton - now that the stove's been going for a few days it will probably have hot coals in it for the next few months

We use a fair bit was the place is pretty well insulated so unless really cold we let the fire die in afternoon so its not a hot box at night. So starting a fire at least once a day. I just chop up the branches of the trees on property and throw them in garbage cans.

[~mikey b]

that's how I do it for the firepit, but Krystal Kartwright likes her fancy recycled-pallet woodbox on the deck and nice, clean sticks of Tamarack inside - I indulge

[~mikey b]

a little stove maintenance today - sort of a pain in the ass - especially when you try to put the big heavy iron plates back into the stove the wrong way...sigh...

replacing the 6" single-wall stove pipe in the house was a bit of a learning experience for me, too - mine had two 24" sections and a 16" section between the stove and ceiling - all of the them were corroded as fuck after 25 years - none of the stove shops in town had what I needed (WTF is up with that?) so I went to Lowe's and bought pieces that you have to snap the seam together since I thought I could save some cash - that is a major fucking pain in the ass, don't try it - ended up at the local plumbing and heating and sheet metal supply and walked out with a DuraVent 2 piece adjustable stove pipe - more expensive, but easy as fuck and a better value when you consider time running around and trying to put the other shit together

[BFD]

the guy who is buying my house! I just gave him my chainsaw. Hell yes hope to never cut wood again.

[bushman]

Shit, I burned 20 cord already. Man its been cold.

[DBdude]

I burned two cord, but only burn at night and on weekends.

I am down to my last few sticks and need to scavenge in the woods for dry standing wood to cut and split for this winter

20 cords - that is too much work - wow - must be an old large house with a wood furnace and fire places and or wood stoves