Just about done burning for heat in Southern Indiana.
This winter was fairly mild and we used a little less than 3 cords of hickory, oak. How much did you use?
Also have it all replaced as of this week.
I normally burn 10-15 full cord of hardwood locust and hedge a year in my Garn. I run year around for domestic. I am going to be on the lower side this year. We didn't get the extended cold spell we usually get in Jan into Feb so at this point in time of the year I am down three cord usage. Probably going to be around nine cord this year. Had some health things this year so I didn't do much in the shop over winter so that saved some wood not heating the shop all the time. Have hedge logs cut need to buck, split and load on some trailers. Got about seven cord of room on trailer right now. Probably not going to get any wood processed before planting season. Corn should be rolling in the ground around here next week but I don't think the weather is going to let that happen. We need some rain here bad.
8-1/2 cord of aspen and softwoods so far. Got 4 cords of dry wood left. 7-1/2 cord already cut awaiting stacking as soon as the ice melts out of it. Be burning wood 2 more months. Mighty cold sitting around in 50 degrees. Ain't summer yet. ;D
13 cords this year, I'm estimating. mid-Oct thru mid-May. A mix of everything from beech to fir.
I've burnt approximately 4 cords of white oak and hickory and beech since November 1 in a Buck stove insert .Got a fire burning now.Wish it would warm up :laugh:
Gonna be the usual 4 cords for me. Maple, oak, ash, hickory in a quadrafire 3100. Winter seemed to start mild, but is ending cold. Last week of March was way colder than last year, but there was a mild week in the middle where I went 4 days with no fire. Kind of all evens out. April now is the month with the most uncertainty. Had a fire every night so far, but little need to keep it going during the day as long as the sun is out. Friends with OWB's gotta keep them going for a while yet, but I like skipping the mild days as the weather warms up. Not that that's happening yet either. :)
End of the season is such a diifferent feel than the beginning, isn't it? Start of the season, you're looking forward to coming home and getting a fire going. End of the season you've had enough and want it to be over. LOL
In the store, we see people running low or out of wood this time of year. Maybe a little more this year than usual. Last Sat morning there were 4-5 guys in for supplies cause they needed to cut more wood to get through the year.
I burn extra wood here because I use it to heat the grow tent from Jan on. Windows are open all day though, when not a storm outside. Wood is cheaper when it's your own. :D Normally I would burn 6 cords.
5 cord of 85% pine spruce fir here. Not too fussy as long as it will make heat
and its free. Plus the woodlot is making more hardwood all the time .
Next winter will be down to 75% softwood in the pile.
If it were all decent hardwood 3 1/2 cord would probably be enough.
4.5 cord, maple ash beech yellow birch elm cherry and even some butternut... not quite done have a quick fire still most nights.
That is a little more than most years, we had quite a long stretch of below zero every day for weeks this winter and only heat with wood so really churned through some in just a short time.
about 3 cord of sugar maple, white and yellow birch, beech and ash. Also get a decent amount of solar gain. We're in northeastern Nova Scotia. Turned off the heat pump mid November. Mild winter again.
4and a half cord so far of red oak, red maple, white and black birch, ash, cherry, beech, hickory and aspen. The kitchen stove still burns day and night but the big stove in the basement has been out for a week and I don't expect I'll need to start it up again.
This year has been a light burning year for me. I'll get by with under 5 cord. Usually burn six. Last year was one of my worst years, burned seven. Last year the cold weather started early and ended very late. I was burning heavy right thru April into May.
All my wood for next year is cut, split and stacked in the barn. I just finished that yesterday. :laugh:
It's white outside on some very bright green grass and the stove is crackling. Hopefully that is the last reminder of winter. Probably 3-4 cords, and 150 gallons of K-1 in the Monitor. Its hard to tell, my mistakes come home and scraps and rippings all generate and burn through the winter.
I brought the skidsteer home to run around and gather cut but unsplit firewood that is everywhere and get it up behind the barn for working up. But of course, bring it home for the weekend and the weather tanks :D.
Hello from PA, I have used about 7 cords miscellaneous hardwood. now I'm working on the hemlock pile. Probably use about half a cord or so before burning season is over. Burning in a Harmon to TL 2.6 and a small Englander. Probably started in mid October
PAbilly, welcome to the forum.
Hemlock will treat you good for burning.
5 or 6 std cords this winter.
More than usual, but had a lot of Cherry which doesnt have the btu content of theMaple, Beech and Ash I like to burn.
burned year round when I had the mill using hemlock slabs in the summer for domestic h2o.
Shut down last week took the snow blower off of my little JD, put the snow shovels away.
Started snowing last evening about 5, 14" here now and still snowing.
I dont do anything with snow this time of year.
The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away.
Quote from: Don P on April 09, 2022, 09:10:47 AM
It's white outside on some very bright green grass and the stove is crackling.
Haven't seen our grass since early Nov. of last year, but I doubt it's green. :D
Usually our snow is gone by now, but not this year. Forecast is warmer and rain for a couple days, so that should finally do it. Not sure how much wood I've used, but it was enough to stay nice and warm. :)
Be working at stacking my firewood here between the snow and rain showers that seem to rotate through every day. Windy along with it. :D
Lawn here was getting green just a couple days after the snow left. No frost here much. I could plant a bare root tree without any trouble. Thankfully the coolness keeps the lawn from growing too fast. :D
I didn't really keep track but it's usually about 4 cords .I was behind the 8 ball this year .Didn't get it on it fast enough in the fall .Long story !
I'll chime in for the record lowest. Probably 2 cords of a mish-mash of everything from hickory to cedar (no pine) - all dead or sawmill scraps.
Been doing some stacking today for next winter. Two ranks makes 1-1/2 cords, going to put one more in today after a bit. Probably room for 4 more ranks after and maybe 1/2 a rank, totalling 5-1/2" cords. Will be 5 cords under the porch, but only a cord left to finish that area.
I'm in the works of trying a land grab for another 5 acres of woods which is adjoining land .I need it like I need another hole in the head but they aren't making any more of it .Besides that if I own it nobody else can build on it .It's got enough down and standing dead I'll never run out of something to burn in two life times .
I look at land similar to the stock market as being "passive " investments .You have to maintain the taxes of course but in stocks you have to pay on the dividends weather you spend them or not .The land or the stocks you can pass on and they pay no tax on it .Mean time they escalate in value or always have in the past . My estate is only going to go to two people but I have grand children too .It's just something good old grand dad did for them . :)
My shop is heated by this Pacific Energy stove. I brought carrier and a wheelbarrow in because we're slated for a long weekend of snow and rain.
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We have about two feet of snow in the yard, and more than that in the forested areas. This winter has put smiles on the snow clearing guys and all the SkiDoo dealers. About four cords for the woodworking shop since October.
I'm in at about 4 cords and still lighting a fire at night.
Stove is in the basement shop.
I burn what's not good for my firewood customers. It's all hardwood.
1 tandem log truck of maple, birch and a few others (5 cord?) heating my house and a 16'x 28' work shop and hw with a Tarm boiler. Next years blocked up ready to split.
Only making a few fires per week to keep the floor from cooling off to much or if we get a few cloudy days in a row.
We burned a little more than we have the last few years. Usually have two rows left over in the wood shed, only had one left a week or so ago when I told Jackie I was done throwing wood in and was going to turn the electric heaters on to take the chill off. .... Then it snowed a foot of wet heavy crap and the power was off from Monday night until yesterday afternoon so have had a fire all week again. I have managed to refill the wood shed already so we won't freeze for another year . 😀
Of a 12-1/2 cord pile of dry aspen and fir/spruce, I've got 3-1/2 cord left and still burning. Mighty cold sitting around at 30-50 degrees. Sure I can use the electric furnace, but the wood is there, no reason not to burn it and save some $100 bills is there? Ask me again when I'm 80, I'll probably be reaching for the electric button. :D
I ain't as young as I use to be ! It takes me longer to get wood in than it used to. Jackie would just as soon I quit messing with it, I tell her it keeps me young then she asks me why I have the Advill bottle in my hand? 😅
My firewood has a dual purpose, I've got a lot of ground to thin, the second time. Not just what's close to the road, but all them acres way back to. Better then letting it all rot, because pulpwood price isn't even worth getting out of bed for. ;D
I have to admit I did use the radiant ceiling heat and the new propane furnace once I got it working correctly .Which is another story .
It's just the fact I have an abundance of fire wood all within 5-600 feet of the house .However at 74 years of age I'm not nearly as spry nor enthusiastic about it as I once was .
Not so many years ago I'd get two cords a day, cut split and stacked .Now of days it's more like a half a cord .Factor in I rebuild ,restore chainsaws so I have to have a means of testing them rather than turn them all into shelf queens .
I'm with you Al. Burning wood and the saw hobby are two mutually supporting activities. I need to be able to do something useful with the saws or there's no point in getting them running. And I enjoy doing firewood while "playing" with the saws. But like you and breederman, there's no more all day on the wood pile anymore. The enjoyment is still there, just need to take it in smaller bites.
4 coward for me here in upper Maine. Still burning but using less now. All hardwood except for some slabs off the mill
Got 1 coward in the shed for next year. Dan
That's cord folks. Eyes are getting bad and spell check is creative😂
I've got a tree trimmer bud that hauled in enough oak 10 years ago to keep me going for a long while .The idea was he was going to chunk it up and sell it but that didn't happen .It's mostly white oak that will last almost fore ever until it rots up .I've been plugging away at it for several years a few cords a year in addition to my own stuff I seem to have standing dead and down all over the place .This old dead stuff I get plenty of chances to practice filing the chain which I'm pretty good at BTW .
Downed white oak and ash will last a long time before it's useless .Cherry ,hickory ,maple,red oak are not as rot proof .For those standing dead is most likely a better option but they will go over in time .So depending if those won't present a hazard I let them stand but if not over they go . The wind is the biggest factor .Mother nature often can lay them right on the stake but often miss by a mile .So that needs to be factored .
Quote from: maineshops on April 23, 2022, 08:53:53 AM
That's cord folks. Eyes are getting bad and spell check is creative😂
:D I was taught "phonics " in the 1950's plus type 30 words per minutes using just one finger ,the pointer not the power finger .It's real easy to think one thing but type another ,guilty as charged . :)
By June, I bet 10 cords will have burned. :D I'll need to cut closer to 2 cord this spring to finish the piles, by the time I shut the stove off. A little more than I thought earlier. I have storage for 10 cords here. But If I want to cut 30 cords for 3 years, I could put 20 in the barn. But I have a paying job, and like father said I can't work 24/7 and get paid for 1/3 of the time. :D
Well I worked for others for 50 years before I retired .I'm my own boss now and can do as I please of course within the bounds of that blonde haired one time HS cheerleader I now abide with .She can't do cart wheels any more and it's been decades since I've hit home runs . :)
Here in the Northeast it looks like April is going to finish up with 4-5 nights down to the freezing mark. Not quite done yet, are we? :)
Be burning wood here until June, have for 55 years, don't see it changing. :D
Just this morning I made a fire in our furnace. I think it was the last one of the season but then with this spring it seems one just does not know.
Regardless we are at about 3 cords of wood here at 29° N.
Just lit a fire for tonight
Might get around freezing tonight and tomorrow night
I hear ya man, rainy damp chilly weekend and I would have started an evening fire in the house stove, but the show season started and all my my craft show stuff is packed up in front of the stove. >:( SO I just put a sweatshirt on in the evening.
Out in the shop I have been making a fire every morning to warm it a bit and keep the air dry as I am applying some finishes and need it to dry. It's been 57-59° when I get out there in the morning. I don't stuff the stove for overnight and I am burning mostly the junk I want to get rid of anyway and scraps off the shop saws. Win-win.
Same here Tom. Got down to 44° the last two nights. Cold enough for a "kill the chill" fire, but no need for an all nighter. Also burning chunks and scrap. I need to wander over and check out your shop sometime. Never been there, but don't think I'll need that "temporary" sign we were talking about the other day. LOL
Have you seen that heating oil around here is $6 a gallon? I know coming out of the burning season, nobody wants to think about that yet. But this will set the stage for quite a firewood year.
Yeah, I have seen the prices. Makes me sick to my stomach an we are just about out. I should get going on my wood, yeah, next year will be rough.
You're welcome here anytime, just give me a heads up to make sure I am here. With better weather I am out and about more trying to make fuel money.