Bringin' up da Wood

[Andries]

Spike, I'm with you and SwampDonkey all the way.
I like where I am.
There's three or four cords of split dry oak on the North wall and my favorite redhead is in the shop with me.

She's telling me that it's about time to bank the woodstove up for the night.
Call it a day.
I post from the shop or from the end of the sofa in the living room. Both nests are warm but one of 'em is more manly than the other.

[doc henderson]

I have one at work and at home in the shop and waking up from the bed with the news on and drinking coffee.  That could be 4 in the afternoon since I work nights.  That may explain why I have a beer after work, at about 7 am.  Doctors bubble at work.



salt on the floor from the snow and ice.

[Al_Smith]

My nest is 32 x 16 in the house, and 480 sq feet in the shop.  I'm in no hurry to move past winter, best time of the year for me.

You can have my share of winter .I've spent a lot of my life in the cold and the older I get the less I like it . I kind of figured if the good Lord wanted me to be cold I'd have the fur of a polar bear .

[SwampDonkey]

I'm not cold, 80° in the house and 85° in the shop.   I've never been cold cutting wood in winter. Anyone standing around being cold might as well go home and sit by the stove. 

[GRANITEstateMP]

Doc,

I like that you put a hand waving to us in your office nest.

[cutterboy]

I also have been burning a lot of wood since the first of the year. Every day lows around 10 highs around 20 but it is the wind that makes it really cold. Constant wind speed of 15-20mph with gusts up to 40. My house is exposed and really gets hit hard by the wind. I have been in the woods only once and that for only 2 hours. My wood splitter is set up in the barn so I am able to split and stack wood out of the wind but I'm almost finished with the rounds that were stacked up outside the barn.
 Today is supposed to be the last day of the strong wind so I hope to get back in the woods soon. There is no snow on the ground and it is frozen so no problem with the tractor in the woods.

[Wlmedley]

Loaded up the wood rack on the back porch today. No relief from the cold weather for awhile so this will last about a week. Below 0 degrees tonight and more snow for tomorrow. Hoping what is left in my woodshed would get me through February but if it doesn't warm up a little I don't think it will. I've got 4 cords in a shed behind the barn but was planning to burn it next winter.

[Wlmedley]

[Wlmedley]

Here's the stove that's been keeping us warm for the last 38 years. I can only imagine the number of trees this thing has consumed.

[cutterboy]

Bill, that's a nice looking wood shed. 
Oh, and I like how you dry your wood with the ceiling fan above the wood rack on the porch. 

[GRANITEstateMP]

cutterboy,

It's all about the airflow! 

[GRANITEstateMP]

Yesterday was nice enough to finally get after stacking some wood.  Having 2 dump trailers this time of year is nice. I don't mind tying one up if it saves me from bending over every time I need pieces to stack in the shed! Got most of the cord done til my buddy called, then showed up.  We went out on the lake with the atvs and had a blast!  I had just under 30miles on my odometer at the end of the ride, but there was A LOT of wheel spinning!

[Al_Smith]

It's taken a cold snap,down in the teens at night so I relit the fire .Coming on this late in winter I might make it on 4 cords .I've been done with cutting in I think last of August .I do know in Sept-Oct.I worked on my rental house no fire wood .Got one more bedroom to paint then that will be done .

[Magicman]

OK Guys, this brutal weather is calling for desperate measures.  We are forecast for the low 30's this week and the low 20's for next week.  The stash had gotten low so:


Not too much remaining from my original whack.


I loaded er up mighty heavy so who knows, this may be enough for the remainder of the cold season.  This is ~3' high and 11' long which is about 1/3 of a cord.  Gonna stay warm and my sawing gitty-up-go should remain busted through next week.

[Al_Smith]

"gal friend " it is,got a good one myself .Fact her last name is also Smith so that works out well  for nosey people .I must have waited until the coldest day to load up my wood trailer,15 degrees with a slight wind .I'm not an Eskimo like you folks in Maine or Ontario cold gets to me .Loaded up half that trailer and now have to thaw out .Another 15 minutes I'll have it done for about a week .During these temps I go through about a rick ( 1/3 cord )every week .This load I threw on some oak to load the insert up at night .It does a little bit better than the ash for over nighters .Entire house is holding at 75 degrees .

[SwampDonkey]

Next week we are going into negative digits up this way. Been going through 98 cu feet rank (75% of a cord) every 2 weeks here until this week, lately the wood stuffing has slowed down, in the 20°'s here day and night. The needle doesn't move much. Snowed every day for 2 weeks, but fine light stuff, don't add up for days. Only been starting a morning fire in the shop, still 78° in there now, fire was lit at 5:00 am. It gets down into the 50's by morning in there, but not freezing. The humidity doesn't shoot way up either, 30's RH by morning, 20'ish RH by day with fire. It's about 90° within an hour out there when I do build a fire up. It'll draw some sweat and you don't even have to move. Had windows wide open this morning sanding 'sticks' for a couple hours. I open windows when I do anything at all anyway, too hot. Burning fir, spruce mostly, some aspen , white birch and black ash once in a while. Black ash is lighter than white ash, but still heavier than aspen or fir. Yard ash was shading the garden, so into the firewood pile it went this spring. Ash grows like bad weeds up here. Anywhere I cut wood on the woodlot it takes over. Got mostly white ash. Black grows around the wet meadows.