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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.. ..
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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.
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Oh as far as the great debate that is gonna spiral off this thread eventually. Stihl vs Husky. All I have ever owned is husky,s
Dont even have a saw now.
Slumlords stihl,s he lets me use from time to time run well.
As long as a saw has 40 to 45 cc,s or better and a 16 to 18 inch bar and runs reliable and maintained . And you keep the chain sharp throwing good cuttings and not fugging dust. ( morons with dull saws deserve the pain)
What is the great debate about saws anyways.
And away we go!!!!!!!
LOL!!! That pic sums it up rather nicely. Maybe the great debate wont occur. LOL!!! Or, it might..
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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.
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Oh as far as the great debate that is gonna spiral off this thread eventually. Stihl vs Husky. All I have ever owned is husky,s
Dont even have a saw now.
Slumlords stihl,s he lets me use from time to time run well.
As long as a saw has 40 to 45 cc,s or better and a 16 to 18 inch bar and runs reliable and maintained . And you keep the chain sharp throwing good cuttings and not fugging dust. ( morons with dull saws deserve the pain)
What is the great debate about saws anyways.
And away we go!!!!!!!
LOL!!! I know dat's right.
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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.
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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. Poulan?
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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.
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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.
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What would you estimate "6 Nissan truck loads" to be in cords?
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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. Was the roof finished in this picture, ie, no fascia board of eave troughs?
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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.
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No pictures, in Cedar Rapids , you could get all you'd ever need free.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Don't you guys have gas, or electricity?
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Don't you guys have gas, or electricity?
mike r Yep. Also have trees.
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Don't you guys have gas, or electricity?
mike r 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.
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It is a lot of work. Here is a load of ash I cut on my driveway in April.A chain saw, a cant hook, and a Fiskars maul. Hubsch. Wunderbar. Beautiful.I love to cut up firewood. I love the smell of two stroke smoke in the morning. What brand is that saw?
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Don't you guys have gas, or electricity?
mike r Yep. Also have trees. In Oregon? You're kidding.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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What would you estimate "6 Nissan truck loads" to be in cords? Or ricks?
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Don't you guys have gas, or electricity?
mike r Yep. Also have trees. In Oregon? You're kidding. Shocking, huh?
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