Anonymous-0
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Just a few blocks!
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Anonymous-0
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Well get at it! ain't a gona split itself!! Dang kids.
chevytaHOE5674
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Need a bigger stove so that you don't need to split it all. Just so long as you can lift them into the stove they will burn. :lol:
randallnMo
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'Probably takes quite a bit of wood. 'Especially with that gable end of your house open like that. LOL
Nice stack of logs you got there. Do you haul them in yourself or buy them delivered? I"ve often thought about buying loads of logs like that. 'Wonder how many more years I can get out into the woods and do my own cutting. I'm pretty sure "logging over 60" has to become inherently more dangerous. Plus the older I get it seemingly becomes increasingly more difficult to reach down into that old feed bag of "motivation" and pull up a new batch.
Nice stack of logs you got there. Do you haul them in yourself or buy them delivered? I"ve often thought about buying loads of logs like that. 'Wonder how many more years I can get out into the woods and do my own cutting. I'm pretty sure "logging over 60" has to become inherently more dangerous. Plus the older I get it seemingly becomes increasingly more difficult to reach down into that old feed bag of "motivation" and pull up a new batch.
gtractorfan
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Nice pile of firewood you have there. There's something extra satisfying knowing where and how you got it. Here's a the trunk of a big maple I cut and split this spring. Fortunately for me a tree service cut it down. It made a lot of firewood, notice all the sawdust!
Brian G. NY
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I"d feel more comfortable if your pile looked like this considering we"re in the first week of December.
That"s a double row, cut to 21" length.
That"s a double row, cut to 21" length.
Brian G. NY
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Or...I was a little better off in 2001.
Walt in Jaxn Tn.
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Are trees cheap where you live? Here in Tennessee we still have a lot of tall trees and wood is cheap, especially after a storm when lots of trees fall and are in the way. Folks here really should be more aware of managing their woods lots instead of clear cutting. You can get some nice fire wood from the slabs that are left after logging crews are done cutting a woods lot into lumber on site. The tree tops and limbs make good fire wood also. There are some very good videos of fire wood log splitters on google video. One of them uses a antique tractor rear steel wheel spinning fast with a wedge welded to it. I'm sriprised that more folks here do not burn fire wood as electricity and natural and propane gas are expensive. You will see the ocasional outdoor wood furnace.
--Walt at work--
--Walt at work--
Brian G. NY
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I split my wood fairly fine so that I can fill my stove more fully. I have a "Hearthstone"
soapstone stove which takes wood at a maximum of 22" in length and it does not have a large firebox nor a large door as do some of the welded steel stoves.
It is "airtight" or at least as nearly so as can
practically be attained.
I burn mostly ironwood (hophornbean) which is one of the densest woods found in North America and therefore produces a lot of BTUs for it"s weight.
Burning "all-night" in an airtight stove is more about the BTU output of the wood and controlling incoming oxygen than the size of the wood. I have no trouble getting a good 8 hours sleep between the time I load it at night and reload it again in the morning. There are plenty of coals left to rekindle the fire and the stove is usually 150 to 200 degrees when I reload it.
I know I could have a larger stove in which I could burn larger wood but I really like the looks of the soapstone stove in my living room.
soapstone stove which takes wood at a maximum of 22" in length and it does not have a large firebox nor a large door as do some of the welded steel stoves.
It is "airtight" or at least as nearly so as can
practically be attained.
I burn mostly ironwood (hophornbean) which is one of the densest woods found in North America and therefore produces a lot of BTUs for it"s weight.
Burning "all-night" in an airtight stove is more about the BTU output of the wood and controlling incoming oxygen than the size of the wood. I have no trouble getting a good 8 hours sleep between the time I load it at night and reload it again in the morning. There are plenty of coals left to rekindle the fire and the stove is usually 150 to 200 degrees when I reload it.
I know I could have a larger stove in which I could burn larger wood but I really like the looks of the soapstone stove in my living room.
Brian G. NY
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As you can see by the stove picture, my wood is split 4" to 5". I think the size of the wood in the wood piles only appears small due to the overall size of the stack.
Bob Huntress
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Hey Walt, I'm in Toone. I had a wood stove, and will be replacing it this winter. I live between two saw mills and wood is cheap, though I was cutting my own. I love the way it smells, also. My wife isn't happy unless the house is 90 degrees, which with a heat pump is to expensive. Wood, is cheap enough to make the house as warm as she likes, though I prefer it around 68.
Split wood burns faster because the sharp edges heat up faster.A cook stove needs split wood for cooking.People go nuts with power splitters wasting much time over splitting.Friend borrowed a splitter and split his wood.Said later he split it too much, wood didnt last.I find its best to put in a big round piece with smaller stuff beside it.Must be a lot of gasoline wasted splitting wood so fine as that in the pile pictured.
Anonymous-0
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Good mornin fellas, I will try to answer some queations, There is lots of poplar in the area so it is cheap. I happened to get a big truck load delivered to my yard for free this year. I cant complain on that !!! There is also spruce, birch, pine in the area, Poplar is what I mainly burn for firewood, properly seasoned it is not a bad fuel, I enjoy doing my firewood chores cause it is just good ol fashioned hard work, keeps my big belly down abit..LOL
Brian G. NY
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Coupe,
As I said, it"s not as fine as it might look.
However, there is a lot of real fine wood mixed in as I cut the small ironwood trees right down to 1" size; waste not, want not.
Ironwood dies naturally and most never get larger than 6" or so. However, I cut one the other day that was about a foot in dia.
After dying and standing for a year, it is totally seasoned and ready to burn.
I have about 50 acres of woodlot and I rarely ever cut a live tree. In addition to the ironwood, occasionally I will find dead white and red oak and red maple.
As for wasting gasoline, I doubt I burned 15 gals of gas for that whole pile of wood.
Granted, about 25% of my wood does not need to be split.
$45 to $50 for splitting MY wood for MY convenience is a small price to pay considering the cost of oil, or in my case propane.
As I said, it"s not as fine as it might look.
However, there is a lot of real fine wood mixed in as I cut the small ironwood trees right down to 1" size; waste not, want not.
Ironwood dies naturally and most never get larger than 6" or so. However, I cut one the other day that was about a foot in dia.
After dying and standing for a year, it is totally seasoned and ready to burn.
I have about 50 acres of woodlot and I rarely ever cut a live tree. In addition to the ironwood, occasionally I will find dead white and red oak and red maple.
As for wasting gasoline, I doubt I burned 15 gals of gas for that whole pile of wood.
Granted, about 25% of my wood does not need to be split.
$45 to $50 for splitting MY wood for MY convenience is a small price to pay considering the cost of oil, or in my case propane.
Brian G. NY
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Lyle, I appologize for "Hi-Jacking" your thread; My initial comments just seemed to take on a life of their own,
Anonymous-0
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hat is no problem, as long as we learn a little about what other people do, hey, what more can we ask for, keep er commin
larry@stinescorner
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thats nice looking stone behind the stove,did you do that?
Eric Rylander
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Beautiful stove, nice wood piles all!
Dad told me that in the early 70's when we built our house and heated with exclusively wood, his co workers who lived in the towns asked what he would do when all the trees were used up.... on our 40 plus acres!
I don't think a live tree was ever cut unless it was in the way of a building project.
On the subject of hophornbeam/ ironwood, it does burn great and also makes good fence posts, nice and straight and doesn't rot in a hurry.
Dad told me that in the early 70's when we built our house and heated with exclusively wood, his co workers who lived in the towns asked what he would do when all the trees were used up.... on our 40 plus acres!
I don't think a live tree was ever cut unless it was in the way of a building project.
On the subject of hophornbeam/ ironwood, it does burn great and also makes good fence posts, nice and straight and doesn't rot in a hurry.
I do cut live trees.Most wood lots are badly over grown.Over crowded trees do not grow much.Anyone who thins carrots or turnips in the garden knows this.I take the poor trees.I did a release cutting in some red oaks 25 years ago, you can see the improvement.Trees have a life span like us.I have little iron wood so reserve it for tool handles.
Brian G. NY
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My woods is not overgrown; even though my Dad logged it off when I was a teenager over 50 years ago. I am getting some really nice red and white oaks and I also have some really big white pine and hemlock. I have a lot of young maples but I will probably not live to see most of them become large enuf to harvest. Too bad, as they are the most valuable here in upstate NY.
A forest of lumber trees is like money in the bank and every annual tree ring is like interest.
A forest of lumber trees is like money in the bank and every annual tree ring is like interest.
Brian G. NY
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Larry, I did not lay that veneer or the hearth.
A shirttail relative of my wife is an expert stone mason and he did this as well as the double flue chimney that runs up the full height of the house.
He told me basically what kind of stone he needed and I went out and brought it to him, mostly off the old stone walls around the farm.
I love the look of native stone and believe it's beauty will never diminish.
A shirttail relative of my wife is an expert stone mason and he did this as well as the double flue chimney that runs up the full height of the house.
He told me basically what kind of stone he needed and I went out and brought it to him, mostly off the old stone walls around the farm.
I love the look of native stone and believe it's beauty will never diminish.
Brian G. NY
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Larry, here is a picture of the chimney.
I did build the retaining wall in front of my place with the help of my B.I.L.
Neither of us had ever done any stonework before.
I am fortunate to have an old flagstone quarry on the old farmstead that hasn't been used since before the turn of the last century.
All the "tailings" or broken pieces were simply thrown over the bank adjacent to the quarry and nearly every piece has at least one straight edge and they are practically all flat in a variety of thicknesses.
I derived a great deal of pleasure from this project and I have received many compliments in the years since I built it.
I did build the retaining wall in front of my place with the help of my B.I.L.
Neither of us had ever done any stonework before.
I am fortunate to have an old flagstone quarry on the old farmstead that hasn't been used since before the turn of the last century.
All the "tailings" or broken pieces were simply thrown over the bank adjacent to the quarry and nearly every piece has at least one straight edge and they are practically all flat in a variety of thicknesses.
I derived a great deal of pleasure from this project and I have received many compliments in the years since I built it.
larry@stinescorner
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that is fantastic! thanks for sending that picture! Words cannot describe how nice that is!... Larry
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