Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How many times do you pick up a piece of firewood...

I remember pieces and why they are shaped like they are
... when i burn them.. but i don't use wood anymore except for a campfire..
..

Here is my backup wood pile. Four feet high and 17 feet long, two stacks side by side. This pile is a jewel, mostly white oak with some locust and ash.
This dries out well it is under the roof of the carport. Lots of sunshine and wind.



Here is my main wood pile, the wood shed. It is a small building, but a big wood shed. Four stacks, seven feet high and seven and a half feet long. My woodshed
dries out wood three times as fast as the carport shed.
In this woodshed I am getting hickory down to 17 percent moisture content in just 8 months. You must have a low moisture content for these new stoves to burn properly.


As much as I like cutting and splitting firewood, this part is almost better.
A 15 degree January day with the big Jotul Oslo cranking. Nothing like the looks, the ambiance, of a wood stove.
Daisy the Beagle also likes the wood stove.
My girlfriend is a city girl she never heard of a wood stove before she met me. Since we got the big Jotul five years ago, she is a wood stove maniac.
She has declared the wood stove as her "new religion." She is as good at lighting and burning it as I am.

The massive glass front of the new Jotul gives a fantastic view of the fire. You just can't touch it with gas logs.

Or, it might..

I swing both ways on the chain saws. I have a Stihl and a Husqvarna. I bought the Stihl 039, thirty three years ago and it still runs like a champ and it has gotten a lot of use.
Building log cabins, cutting firewood, sawing up big timbers usw.
That Husqvarna is a Pro Model and it cost $624, and that was six years ago. Great little 50 cc saw. I have built one cabin with it and cut lots, and lots of firewood.
When it comes to chain saws I am open minded.

I know dat's right.

I cut, split, stacked, hauled, and restacked enough firewood to last me for the rest of my life between the ages of 12 and 22.

You burn a lot of wood when you try to heat 5,000 sf of 200 year old New England farmhouse.

Poulan?

I wouldn't want to try to heat a 200 year old, giant farm house.



My house looks like it is 200 years old but it is in fact 5 years old. I love the look of the old pioneer houses but it is in fact a modern house with R43 in the ceiling and good insulation in the walls, built snug and tight, because I built it.
This is a 2100 sq. ft. house and I am heating it with 6 Nissan truck loads of wood in a year.
Now this is top quality wood. I don't put any pine in my wood pile this is oak, locust and cherry.

I wouldn't want to own, live in, or try to heat a 200 year old farm house either.

What would you estimate "6 Nissan truck loads" to be in cords?

Was the roof finished in this picture, ie, no fascia board of eave troughs?

5 cord of dry stuff split and stacked. 9.5 cord of green larch cut, split, and stacked with another 4-5 cord mostly larch still to go. Figure 9 minimum times each log gets lifted here, discounting dragging the log out. Cut to length and tossed in truck, stacked to be split, split, the pieces tossed into truck or wheel barrow to be stacked, stacked, tossed in wheel barrow to house, restacked in dry wood pile, then carried in to be stacked in house, then tossed in furnace.

No pictures, in Cedar Rapids , you could get all you'd ever need free.

Don't you guys have gas, or electricity?


mike r

Yep. Also have trees.

Lol I gave up heating with wood years ago. Thing is I can get pretty much all the wood I need for free from land clearing we do. I simply just have better things to do with my time then fugg around cutting, splitting, and stacking firewood. I do keep about 2 cords of good seasoned hardwoods around for outdoor fires,using in the smoker and actually do have 2 fireplaces in the house that are mostly used occasionally for ambience more than heat.

What brand is that saw?

In Oregon?

You're kidding.

Or ricks?

Shocking, huh?