No, this is not a thread about hot chicks. This is about firewood. Our new cabin is only heated by wood heat. So I've been working hard on getting wood split and stacked for this fall. So how do you process your wood? How much wood do you have? Is your wood dry? Lets see your stoves. Tell and show off your wood. (I sure hope none of you perverts post your human wood). I have a rack under the covered poarch so I can walk out in my slippers to get more wood. Ive found wood processing to be messy so i selected this is area to "processs" the wood. Processing the wood. Here two fire wood racks I built that are getting full. Each are a face cord. I have another face cord rack close to the cabin ready to take from as needed. My utv kawasaki mule transports the wood to the cabin. Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk
Here is my log Splitter working on a big log. Its a brave 22 ton with a honda gc160 engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtcxbuTMHfw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I don't really have pictures, but I've heated primarily with wood since we bought our house three years ago. I go through around 4 cords a season, mostly oak varieties and maple, with some cherry and ash thrown in. Everything is cut on my parents property a few miles away, skidded out with my dad's JD 990, and hand split, and sticked, stacked and covered on site. Around fall, I'll start bring about a cord over at time, and I keep it right outside the walkout basement entrance under my deck. Works out awesome, since it's covered, and the stove is right there. I'm using an Englander NC-30 stove.
I use this mositure meter to check the dryness of my wood. We have a dutchwest 2479 cast iron stove. Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk
Very nice Brad. Question.... You said you only heat with wood. Do you plan on draining the water early in the fall and not have water during the gun season or winter?
I don't have a wood stove anymore, but used to love my stove in Alaska. I wanted to get one of these thermoelectric fans (http://www.modernoutpost.com/gear/details/cf_ecofan.php) but never got around to getting it. Looked like a good way to help circulate the heat.
I will need to drain and winterize when the good freezes start. That means its possible I will have to winterize several times in the fall. I had the plumber make it as easy as possible to winterize the system. Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk
Man not to bust your cute little wood piles. But if you are going to heat your whole house for the winter, you better put your bow down and get on the stick. You need to start cutting and splitting a lot more wood then that. SE Wisconsin gets cold as that deer in the freezer. I grow up in PA with the only heat was a wood burning stove in the kitchen. If I remember right we burned about 5 or 6 cords of wood. My brother and I cut and split wood though out the year. Thank God we finally got a coal stove. You might think about going with coal. Hell of a lot less work. Nice steady heat. The coal stove we had you fill it up and shock the ash twice a day. Wood is too much work.
Its not a full time place. I'm only here on on the weekends. And I won't be here much or at all after hunting season. I have 2 full cords right now. Should be plenty. Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk
I heat entirely with wood. I also sell it. I've cut and split 15 cord or so this year and I'm just getting going. I really need to ramp it up in the next few weeks. I heat with a US Stove 1602R.
Me and a buddy cut wood in the fall to sell for extra cash. Its lots of work but worth it when the money rolls in. I have a 4' diameter by about 16' long chunk i need to get rid of yet. Still trying to find a blade sharp enough to cut through a couple of iron wood trees that a storm knocked down couple years ago.
More details Ben. How do you store your wood? What kind if splitter do you have? Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk
I've got wood. We only burn wood in our fire pit. My GF can really go through it, about 2 full cords a year. This year I cleared out a food plot and handled about 7 full cords. Now days my tractor is my best wood handling machine. It has a grapple and a backhoe with a thumb. No more bending over to cut logs. I have 6 face cord racks and then 3 piles of 9' logs. I use 2 Stihl chainsaws, an 017 14" bar and a ms361 with a 20" bar. The 361 is a pro saw and cuts wood like crazy. Our splitter is a Speeco 25 ton with a 9 hp briggs engine and a 16 gpm 2 stage pump with a 12 second cycle time. It hasn't been stalled yet. here's a few pics. Getting ready to cut some 9' logs Popping roots with the backhoe and grappling out the stump. The GF grabs the 9' logs and holds them like this while I cut them into 18" fire logs. I also have a processing area. After I cut a bunch of fire logs, we push them in a pile and set up the splitter. I load and she splits (it's actually her splitter!). She loads the split wood into the tractor bucket and then drives over to where it will be stacked. Four heaping tractor buckets is about a face cord. 12 to 15 nine foot logs, depending on diameter, is a face cord also. It is a lot of work but we enjoy it. My favorite time to get trees out of the woods is late winter and early spring, before green up. We usually go after standing dead and blow downs. Some of those are already dried and ready to burn.
I heat the house with wood. It depends on the winter how much we go through. last year maybe 2 cords, the one before about 3 1/2+ . Inserts w/fans in both fireplaces, usually just use the upstairs one though. Sometimes I process the wood where it falls. I tow my splitter out there and bring back the split wood. Usually I will bring back the cut pieces from the logs and then split at the wood "pile". I've burned everything from well seasoned to recently cut/split. I like to cut the trees down before spring and then over the summer and fall get those processed but have cut them down in the fall too. Never have checked the moisture.
I don't burn wood, but over the 5 years we've lived here, I have cut and given away an average of 3 cords per year.
When I grow up it was all done by hand. Things are faster and easer today.. i am sitting in my hunting cabin righy and there is a 4 pointer looking at me
I cut about 5 cords a year to heat our house, then try and sell 8-10 cords a year. I still split it by hand, but I'm only 21 still. It's a good way to build the shoulders and arms up Sent from my pocket computer using Tapatalk
I had the six pointer show up with the four and you guys are cutting wood. I am drinking coffee and smoking cigs and watching deer . To cool
