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This is our 14th year since putting in a woodstove. I have my process worked out for me pretty well. Everybody does it different to some degree, but with the same objective. Tough to beat wood heat when it gets cold.

I buy logs, mostly beetle kill, by the truckload. One load lasts about four winters.

Here's a few pics from this summer/fall, working on the firewood.

Husky 455 Rancher has been a good saw for my needs.


Making rounds,


Splitting, not a bad view from the office.




Stacking it up,


Should be enough with some surplus,


A couple woodpile pics,




Rat Patrol taking a break,




Show your firewood pics if you want.

Shane

Nice office !

Semper Fi

That looks, looks, pasha, that IS a lot of work!

Wood heat is great.

Nice thing you have going on there,, Thank you for your service..

It takes me about 4 cord to get thru winter. So I get 5 with the 5th being an insurance policy. We use go up into the National Forest & cut down aspen & spruce. But my wife & I are getting a little to old for that much work. I'm 65 & I'll draw full SS in February when I turn 66. Now we go over to the saw mill & get get scrap slats. They are already cut to 16" length & we hand load the pickup. That way we get good hunks of woods. It's $20 for a pickup load. We can load it full in about 1 1/2 hour. Much easier on us & it burns just as hot.. A good air tight wood stove is a must. We've been using an EarthStove #710 for the past 30 years.

back in the day have done that very thing, first to feed a fireplace, then a atlanta homesteader circulator.

even later a local pulpwood yard also started offering retail firewood by the pound.

weigh the truck coming and going. i bought mine from the old pile.

and did it in august too. yes, saved a lot of money & effort.

when snow was forecast, the line was long.

and it was all green wood by the pound.

Our local post & pole outfit in Clancy MT runs a decent firewood yard also. I think they also offer a cut price for seniors.

Same outfit I buy my truckloads from. Marks-Miller.

Neat pix, it’s a lot of work but there’s nothing like wood heat and sitting by the fire when the weather rolls in.

You've got the same saw as me and by the looks the same stove too. Is that a Lopi Republic stove ?

It's a Lopi 1750. Might be a Republic, I don't really remember.

Good stuff Shane. I used to heat with wood and put up 4-5 chords each year. Current house doesn't have a stove or fireplace so those days may be over for me. I enjoyed getting the wood in and do miss it so broke out the saw a year or so ago and cut a couple truck loads for the fire pit out back and camping. I'll need to go back out and get more next year...

Yep, same stove I have. There were three sizes of Lopi Republic stoves. One was the 1250, another the 1750 and there was a third but I don't remember the number. Good stoves. I bought mine 12 years ago.

speaking of burning (combusting?) wood in the house, looks like everybody has their exterior chimney pipe at least 3 feet higher than anything closer than 10 feet. i just hate it when wind gusts blow smoke down the chimney.


can't run my furnace fan for circulation, peculiar, but it'll draw backdraft out the stove air intake. so, just depend upon the overhead ceiling fan. works fine.

That's kind of what I recall as well.

We had a fireplace insert and heated with woods for the four winters we live in Portland in the early 80s. I cut and split about five cords of Douglas Fir every year. Wife helped stack it. Really enjoyed it, but don’t think I could do that anymore v

Since the emerald ash bore has killed all of our ash trees, that's about all we burn, its nice stuff to slit and burn !

great pictures

This one made some noise when it hit the ground, that's a stihl pro series saw with a 22 inch bar .
The big saw is the one that is stuck in the log the one sitting on the wood is an O28,

Good stuff MM!

Almost makes me wanna be cold.

I installed my woodstove in 1980 when I finished building my house. I've been using it ever since. Geeez, that's 40 years now!!! :-)