Free Heat

[Skip]

Sittin here watching crew install my new WoodChuck with all the bells and whistles cant wait to enjoy my "FREE" heat as my wife call it. :D

[clww]

Congratulations!
I take it she doesn't run the saw, or split the wood? :D

[gspren]

  Sort of like a "free puppy", it just don't exist, but like my now 13 year old puppy I also like heating with wood.

[Al_Smith]

As the old saying goes ,there is no such thing as a "free" wood pile . ;)

[Skip]

Amen ,got it all tied in . I am looking forward to  it .been two yrs since we had one . They say firewood heats in two ways, well for the one cutting and splitting anway.  8)

[Ford_man]

That's right Skip. One when you cut it and one when you burn it. But you don't need the heat this time of year.

[bigbuckhughes]

Have been useing central boiler unit for about 8 seasons now.  Basically, the way to go, but......parts are not cheap when replacements are needed.  Hope you are handy as this helps on the price of repairs.  If a guy has to buy wood to get his supply, you might as well spend your jack on fuel oil, gas, etc.  and save your body.

[Skip]

I get all wood I want from a logger friend ,tops, cutoffs, culls etc all  I have to do is go get them he loads my dump trailer with the landing loader. Got 2 loads of white, red oak and hickory and 1 load of cherry this week  got 1 load split and stacked already. Can't do anything today as its raining like a cow ******* on a flat rock. That's allright tho cause I'm pretty sore , but as we used to say in the Corps Pain is Weakness leaving the Body.  8)

[woodshed]

"Warms you twice" makes sense if you are harvesting/processing wood in the winter.  I've been making my own firewood for 30+ years.  Making wood in the winter is great work  for a cold day. Many a time I have worked in shirtsleeves at zero degrees to be comfortably warm (Maine).  Winter-cut wood is good in several ways.  It is drier (therefore lighter), as the sap has returned to the root system, and cleaner, less dirt in the bark to dull the saw (if you are twitching logs on snow), and frozen wood splits easier (particularly important if you are splitting by hand).  If you are cutting on your own land, odds are your firewood is thinnings, so in cutting it you have improved your timber stand, and if you enjoy the woods, the outdoors, the work, and get enjoyment from the woodstove on cold winter nights, well, then, there's the entertainment value.  Lastly, I get enjoyment from erecting nicely stacked woodpiles.  There's something really satisfying about seeing a winter's wood neatly put up and ready as the north wind begins to blow,and ice starts flying through  the air.   I guess none of this makes it free, but for some of us old codgers, it beats shelling out for heating oil. 

[beenthere]

How about showing some of those neat woodpiles.  8)

[woodshed]

Hey Beenthere!  I grew up in Wisconsin Rapids.   

This wood is almost entirely american beech.  Excellent firewood, and plentiful here in Maine.  Most is infected with a European insect disease, so it has no real value for anything but firewood, except as mast, as it produces nuts prodigiously.  Sad, because disease-free wood is high-quality, furniture grade.  It is hard, has a beautiful pink color and fine, straight grain.  The diseased wood is usually gnarly, stringy, and hard to split. It dries fast, and burns hot and long, with great coaling.  I prefer it over almost all other species, excepting rock maple and yellow birch, but you gotta work it up soon after felling, as round wood on the ground gets dozy within 3 months.
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Sorry about the photo files.  This is what I got when I attempted to post pictures ;(

[beenthere]

woodshed
Your pics will need to go in your own gallery here on the forum. Go to your profile to set it up so you have a place to upload them.

Then go to the "Home" page and scroll down to the "Behind the Forum" where the first thread is a primer to load pics from your computer. Can't just link to them, and you for sure don't want us in your computer   ;D.

If you click on the line below this window "Click here to add Photos to post" and have your gallery, then uploading them and placing them in your post is pretty straight forward.
Give a shout if any of the steps give you problems (it happens to most of us) and we'll give you a friendly boost. 

[cutterboy]

  If you are cutting on your own land, odds are your firewood is thinnings, so in cutting it you have improved your timber stand, and if you enjoy the woods, the outdoors, the work, and get enjoyment from the woodstove on cold winter nights, well, then, there's the entertainment value.  Lastly, I get enjoyment from erecting nicely stacked woodpiles.  There's something really satisfying about seeing a winter's wood neatly put up and ready as the north wind begins to blow,and ice starts flying through  the air.   I guess none of this makes it free, but for some of us old codgers, it beats shelling out for heating oil.

Woodshed, all of what you said is so true.

[woodshed]

Ok, trying again for those pictures for beenthere....

  

 

[beenthere]

Good on the pics woodshed.

Thanks!!

[thecfarm]

Nice job on the splitting size too.

[Skip]

Fine Job     I'm getting there  8)