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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.

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.

What’s is yurns friggin obsession with firewood is.
Y’all know there are things such as electricity, then central heating and air things, gas and so on and so forth?
I grew up with a wood stove and still have a wood stove on one end of the house and gas on the other end. I like wood heating and for some reason kinda enjoy cutting it. But lets face it it is a pain in the ass. Fell the tree if it’s not down already, Cut it , pile it, load it, unload it, split it, stack it,make kinlin, load it in wheel barrow or 4 wheeler trailer, bring it in the house, put in stove, start fire, keep fire stoked up however many times a day while at then same time adding more wood during the day and night. Keep mess cleaned up and swept up around stove, load ashes in bucket every so often carry outside somewhere, and dump, get gas and oil for chainsaw, mix chainsaw gas and oil, maintain saw/keep maintenance up on chainsaw, keep fuggin chain sharp,
Whole fuggin house smells like wood, clothes smell like wood, go out in a date, guess what your clothes smell like wood, everything smells like wood. Leave house for a few hours or have too be gone for the day for work or whatever reason then you come house colder than heck, hope like heck you at least have enough coals left so you don’t have too start a whole new blankety blank fire again. Oh yes wood heat is so great 🙄🙄
All that being said I still enjoy wood heat with a good roaring fire or a nice fireplace. Yes it’s good as backup or too burn sometimes. But let’s be truthful it’s a fuggin pain in the ass.

Man! If I had all those hassles, I too would give up on wood. Life is much easier with my stove and equipment, and I've never had anyone comment on a wood or smoke oder in our home or on our persons.

Don't you guys have gas, or electricity?


mike r

For people that cut and stack their own firewood which part is not true? 🤪

Wabi, I use the same concept, but the tire is portable for splitting when and where needed.