Posted by Grandpa's Fords on January 28, 2019 at 06:12:40 from (50.107.184.112):
In Reply to: Your wood pile posted by 37chief on January 27, 2019 at 19:09:18:
Elderly MIL's house 50+ years old in direly in need of upgrade to windows, doors and so on. MIL needs the temp set around 76. OWB struggled a bit to maintain in below zero last week. She has a closed in front porch that has heat but very little insulation and won't let me close it up for the winter. Been through about 12 cords so far and expect to go through that much more. 2 cord cut split and stacked right now. The rest is still logs! We went through 16-17 cord last year total. My stepson had agreed to cut the wood as he lives there, but you know how this go sometimes. He didn't get around to it even after constant harassment. So his mom, me the grandkids pitched in with him to get a couple cords cut every couple weeks.
As Keith stated "I just don't know if I would be physically able to split and fire it." I am no longer able to bend or lift anything so my NH TC33 w/ backhoe with a home made thumb picks them up to cut and move to 3pt splitter on the Ford 861. I red neck engineered a log lifter ramp and catchers on the splitter from scrap I had and an old wheel barrel tire, so I can pick up the chunks if someone rolls them on the bottom of the ramp. The catchers hold them there to either re split or get thrown into the wagon. Nothing as grand as the Firewood King but it makes life easier.
It's amazing how much more wood is consumed set at 76 versus 70. OWB is hooked to a oil hw boiler for heat and domestic use with set points of the Oil burner set down so the OWB is primary. 3years ago when the FIL passed away she just used the oil, it cost about $4500 that year. With buying logs, saw chains. and gas etc. we should spent about 1,500 this year with about $700 of fuel for warmer months.
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