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Beer.
Sweet gum.


Sweet gum burns HOT in an insert. Not back log material. But it burns hot.

7 is about right. Put up 5 cords this spring. Two wood stoves in the house and one in the cabin. Enough wood stacked for two years.

Hear folks about permits, built from scratch and needed two permits, electrical and septic. Wonderful living in the sticks.

We're running a boiler outside it can take a 30" cut but I run 24 in case the wife has to load the stove. Mostly red and white oak. Some maple. The maple goes up quick.

Seems if ai fill 'er up after work I get a full 24hours when burning good oak. When it's loaded with maple I throw a few pieces in before work.

3 rows 6-7 feet high 28 feet long under an awning off the garage right by the stove.

Neighbor just clearcut his 20acres so the wood is there to pickup. I plan on dragging out a few more insurance logs in case we run out. The after hunting season skidding out next year's logs. Hopefully be done in May or June next year at the latest.

I sell a lot of the junk for 50$ a face cord to local campers. A face cord is 1 row 4 x 8

Something relaxing about splitting wood.

Drive on down to my place. We have too many oaks cluttering up the pasture.

kwg

I got my wood up last night and it did feel good.

I love to burn the wood stove. I got my woodshed packed full in April. It takes about 7 months for the wood to get dry enough to burn well.
I love to cut up firewood and split it with the maul.




My backup wood pile. Under the carport. Two stacks wide, four feet high, sixteen feet long. White oak, ash, and locust. About 15 percent moisture. Premium firewood. I don't stack rotten wood. If more than five percent of the wood is rotten I leave it.



My wood shed. This little shed is 8 x 12. It is full, today, of black walnut and white oak and locust. Believe it or not, the little wood shed holds twice as much wood as the backup pile under the carport.


The backup to the backup pile, beneath the kitchen window. This is a nice little pile, five feet high by 16 feet long. Nothing but locust. At 28 million btu per cord, locust is the best firewood available hands down. A blight killed all the locust so the party is about over. I have two more locust trees standing and then, all gone.
During the day I burn black walnut, or oak. When it is 10 pm and time for bed, I load up the wood stove with locust for a long burn.

Let me know when they make a wood burning air conditioner.

540

Osage Orange, or hedge as we call it burns a goodly amount hotter than locust.

Nothing wrong w locust at all as a heating wood though. Get some hedge, locust and hackberry and you have some pretty good firewood.

Mix some oak and hickory in and you are set.

Heated with wood four winters in Oregon and two in Minnesota. In Mn still had to use some gas though. Was hard work but fun. I to old for that now.

Our modest wood rack in Ontario.

And stove.

Burning a lot of wood in TN to stay warm? Get out of here.

3,100 sf - is that an octuple-wide?

I always stay ahead by 2 winters. I have 18 cord of red oak split ranked and ready. The last 4 years our gas furnace never kicked on.

WS

Osage Orange. I have heard of this wood. I just looked it up. 32.9 million BTU per cord. Good God that is unreal. That is the highest rank firewood I have ever seen. My locust at 28 million BTU is not nearly as good.
However, I would have to travel 1,000 miles to get any Osage Orange. I will have to stick with locust which, as I said, next year will be all gone. But I still have plenty of oak and ash.



Daisy the Beagle loves the Norwegian wood stove and so do I. My girlfriend calls this stove her new religion.

Where are you that you get this Osage Orange? Does it grow up as a tall tree like an oak, or is it twisty and gnarly? Damn I'd like to get my hands on a truckload of that stuff. Is it hard to split with a maul? Locust is easy to split.