Good thing about wood is that trees grow all around us.
We use a Waltherm on our island cottage and a Rumford on the mainland.
We use a Waltherm on our island cottage and a Rumford on the mainland.
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jdc1,
I've heated my house for over thirty years with an indoor wood furnace and finally bought an outside furnace @ fifteen years ago. The main reason and you might already know this, but hauling the wood inside brings all the critters with it. They're cold and not moving until they warm up inside. We have a big problem with brown recluse spiders in the mid west and man did we get them. Once you get them you always have them. Please wipe down your wood or check for them before they get inside. I had a Woodchuck stove in the basement, but at least it was a walk out and I could bring in a wheelbarrow full every day. With the outside one you don't have to split as much and no critters inside.
Heating with wood is a lot of work if you do it all yourself, something most people wouldn't think of doing. I respect everyone of you that do heat with wood, I know what it means every year to keep the wood pile going.
I've heated my house for over thirty years with an indoor wood furnace and finally bought an outside furnace @ fifteen years ago. The main reason and you might already know this, but hauling the wood inside brings all the critters with it. They're cold and not moving until they warm up inside. We have a big problem with brown recluse spiders in the mid west and man did we get them. Once you get them you always have them. Please wipe down your wood or check for them before they get inside. I had a Woodchuck stove in the basement, but at least it was a walk out and I could bring in a wheelbarrow full every day. With the outside one you don't have to split as much and no critters inside.
Heating with wood is a lot of work if you do it all yourself, something most people wouldn't think of doing. I respect everyone of you that do heat with wood, I know what it means every year to keep the wood pile going.
rkymtnflyfisher
Trout Bum
It's a good reason to go spend time in the mountains! Early in the year we use the 40 to scout the forest service roads to see what's open, then the ol' diesel dually gets to go to work!
You've all seen my pile, I know what it means to heat with wood....WORK!....
Lots of collateral damage but fortunately not much to the nearby walnut.
94SRUNNER
GOLD Star
Cut some ash with my father that was lost due to the EAB. Took my 5yro to assist.
Saws used Stihl MS290 (fathers), MS260 Pro and MS193T (both mine)
Saws used Stihl MS290 (fathers), MS260 Pro and MS193T (both mine)
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Ash burns hot and quick, good wood for the fireplace. Another good thing it doesn't need to season long. Your stack looks nice.
94SRUNNER
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Maving from the meadow to the shed to make room for this year's harvest in the meadow
94SRUNNER
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Thats a nice stack!
Dang......that's a Lot O' Wood..!
I wouldn't burn that much in 10 years where I live.
It is funny how that varies. I burn about three times that every year - and I know that I am not even in the coldest part of the lower 48.
rkymtnflyfisher
Trout Bum
Same here, I easily burn 4-5 cords every year. Wood is my primary heat source, I don’t like paying for LP to heat my house. I did turn on my furnace a couple weeks ago for a couple of days when we had a stretch of below zero days, just to supplement the wood stove and put heat in the back room.
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Yeah so it's dependent on so many things: Type and quality of wood, type of burner, climate and the building you're heating. So I live in northwest Ohio, have a 2,700 sqft 130 year old farmhouse that is 100% exposed to the wind, burn Ash and Elm which are probably 7-8 on the quality scale, and heat with an old school wood burner in the house. In an abnormally warm year I burn only about 2 1/2 cords, in 2014 which was brutal for us and winter simply did not end until May 1 I burned a full 5 cords which is the entire contents of that shed. This year I will probably burn about 3 1/2 cords depending on how spring goes - which is looking on the warm side for now.
When I posted back in the winter about the Ash that fell in the creek....why didn't you guys tell me the picture of the actual tree never uploaded lol
94SRUNNER
GOLD Star
Very nice! Where are you in Ohio?
Thanks! Northwest. Between Fremont and Clyde.
