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Well I heat with a wood pellet stove. How many pellet's are in a cord? :-) Two ton, by the size of the pallets Of pellets, I purchase. 🤔
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Well I heat with a wood pellet stove. How many pellet's are in a cord? :-) Two ton, by the size of the pallets Of pellets, I purchase. 🤔 Two ton of pellets would equate to about 3 full cord of wood.
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Propane heat now.
Old house, woodstove/furnace.
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Ter corn burners are pretty much out?
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very weather dependent here.
hit 50F today, was 39F when I got up. Decided to see how things went. Electric furnace comes on at 66F inside. Might have run a dozen times so far today? Saving wood for when it gets cold tonight perhaps. Routine the last week or so was to have a fire set for my wife to light when she gets up. burn until early afternoon usualyy. house gets to 72-74F. let house cool down from that point. Furnace set at 52F from 9:30p to 5:00A.. heater usually doesn't even run.
Coldest winters maybe 4-4.5 cords (cords as defined, because that's what a cord is) juniper and lodgepole. This season if the Pineapple Express keeps up we might get by with 3 total.
Sq ft of house??? 1300 for a reasonable guess. 2x6 walls with good insulation there, ceiling, and under the floor.
Quadra fire stove. 16" max length for wood. Rather efficient compared to a couple other stoves we've used over the years
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When pellets came in 50 pound bags, they are 40 pounds now, like every thing but real feed, I have never burned more than a pallet an a half, even when -22 for two weeks three years ago, I still think it is much cheaper and easier than when I burned two or more cords of wood, and they bring pallets to ranch, unload with tractor straight in barn , very interesting subject.
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Don't have wood as primary heat anymore. Just a fireplace for a little warmth in the evenings and because it looks nice. Might burn 2 loads a year here , 2 more at the camp. Mostly oak with hickory, locust and some cherry mixed in
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…do you use in a typical season?
What type of application are you using firewood for?
We have an older (original house was 1890) home that has been added on, about 1900 sq ft now. Heated exclusively with a wood stove. We burn 4 or so cord a season.
1970s Brunco coal/wood stove Seasoned hardwood (Very dry pine is sometimes used in fall or spring)
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ETA: for reference, I am referring to a “full” cord, as in 128 cu/ft of wood. The classic 4x4x8 stuff. Five full cords, on average.. Stove is an Osburn 2400, sits on a pad between LR and DR. Fuel oil furnace for backup, but 200 gallons of oil lasts me two years or more.. Wood is all mixed hardwoods..
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1300 sq ft.... we only burn about 2-3 cords a year in a Fisher Honeybear woodstove.... usually 100% Almond wood which is a really hard wood with very little ash.... sometimes get some live oak from the hills about 30-40 miles away and also got some free cherry this year from a guy who tore out an orchard.....it ain't nowhere as good as the almond though. We have hundreds of thousands of acres planted in almonds here..... never ending supply and cheaper than propane.
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I'm not even sure of our SF(1200?) and we don't burn wood inside.
And the wood we do have is cottonwood and ash.
But.... I did just burn a piece of gourmet hickory out in the BGG.
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I burn 6-7 full cords a season. Usually, I burn from November 1 through about April 1. I am fortunate that I only burn Red Oak. We have a natural gas furnace for backup, but it rarely if ever goes on. I always keep ahead by at least 2 years, so the wood I burn is well seasoned.
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Burn 2-3 cords per year in an old Earth stove. Mix of hardwoods including ash, bur oak, Osage, hackberry and elm if I have to. Also have propane which is primary heat source, but try to keep the thermostat on furnace low enough that it doesn't run much.
Best part of burning wood is that it actually heats ya up about 5 times by the time it turns to ash.
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Well I heat with a wood pellet stove. How many pellet's are in a cord? :-) Two ton, by the size of the pallets Of pellets, I purchase. 🤔 Two ton of pellets would equate to about 3 full cord of wood. It's a volume measurement. Two 4 x 4 pallets = 4 x 4 x 8, isn't that how wood is measured?
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Well I heat with a wood pellet stove. How many pellet's are in a cord? :-) Two ton, by the size of the pallets Of pellets, I purchase. 🤔 Two ton of pellets would equate to about 3 full cord of wood. It's a volume measurement. Two 4 x 4 pallets = 4 x 4 x 8, isn't that how wood is measured? A cord is 4'H X 4'W X 8'L. Or any other arrangement of the same H x W X L that comes to the same total. Two 4x4 pallets may or may not get you there. Put together they are 4'W X 8'L, but how high?
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I'll burn about three cords, in a typical winter. If there is much -20 or colder weather, I might burn a little more. The wood is a combination of red fir, larch, and lodgepole pine. I have a small pellet stove which I use overnight sometimes. Both it and the woodstove are in the basement. The house is only about 1000 feet on the main floor, with a loft. Log construction. GD
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Well I heat with a wood pellet stove. How many pellet's are in a cord? :-) Two ton, by the size of the pallets Of pellets, I purchase. 🤔 Two ton of pellets would equate to about 3 full cord of wood. It's a volume measurement. Two 4 x 4 pallets = 4 x 4 x 8, isn't that how wood is measured? Volume wise, sure, a ton of pellets is nowhere near a cord of wood…more like a face cord (or rock or 1/3 cord). But energy wise, a ton of pellets is equal to approximately 1.5 cord of wood. This translates well, IME, as my parents now burn pellets in their place and have gone from 4 cord of wood a year to about 2.5 ton of pellets.
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I'm not even sure of our SF(1200?) and we don't burn wood inside.
And the wood we do have is cottonwood and ash.
But.... I did just burn a piece of gourmet hickory out in the BGG. I feel so used
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I burn 3.5-4 cord. I get slab wood with a lot of blocks in it from the Amish mills. Cost me $375 for 6.5 cords. Woodstove is in basement and it's where I do all my cooking in winter.
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