The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[Al_Smith]

Some times situations come up you just don't have enough time to do things as you planned them .This happened to me this past summer and fall and thus my fire wooding took a back seat .Kind of funny ,the insert stove will heat the entire slightly over 2,000 square feet but when you get temps in high 20's at night raising to high 40's day time it takes just as much wood as if it were 10 degrees full time .Day time turn off the blower and choke down the fire but it still takes nearly a face cord a week to keep the fire going .If it were all oak or hickory of course it would go longer but I'll burn anything like basswood which is about the least desirable .

[barbender]

I would agree on wood use in that temperature range, Al. When the mercury gets below -10° there is an exponential increase in wood use. There must be something to an 80°  temperature differential that increases heat loss out of a home beyond a steady curve, because when we hit those temps I chuck 2-3x as much wood in the boiler.

[Magicman]

I got er home and backed up to the woodshed but,



 

I moved wood to the rear of the trailer to prevent what happened last time. 


 
I didn't want this to happen again, again.  :D

[doc henderson]

Is that rig highway legal in MS?     My grandpa lived in the little town of Benington, Ks, and would sometimes drive his John Deere mower 2 blocks to the diner for dinner.  He had polio as a kid and may have had a few sips before dinner.  

[Al_Smith]

If I understand the specs on the Lopi glass front insert circa mid 80's it's around 55 thousand BTU's  The heat lose as much as I can figure out is between 30 and 35 thousand BTU per hour .Being brick and well insulted with double pane Anderson and Geld-Wen  windows it's pretty tight .It was originally radiant ceiling heat which is still intact later a 5 ton geothermal which I recently replaced with a 95 percent efficient propane unit  rated at 66 thousand BTU's .It's not hard to heat or cool .Most likely the amount of large trees around it have something to do with it .

[mike_belben]

Barbender its called delta T.  The greater the temp difference inside vs outside the faster the energy will transfer through the enclosure to seek equilibrium.  The rate of heat loss jumps up and requires a subsequent jump in heating appliance output.

On those arctic nights, instead of a little leaky window there is a draft that will make a tissue dance if you tape it to the top trim dangling down in front of the window.  Just short of wind inside the house. 

 If you dropped the thermostat to 40 it wouldnt need much wood because the delta T gets smaller again.

[barbender]

I'll drop it to 40 and explain to my wife I'm just reducing the Delta T😂

[newoodguy78]

 Was nice knowing you  :D

[mike_belben]

Just let her know mike belben said it was the way to save the planet from ghg emissions. 

[barbender]

😂😂

[SwampDonkey]

Forget sitting around in your underwear. Get the Stanfield's out. :D

Right now, I have a fire on and the windows up. Free air exchanger.  :D

[SwampDonkey]

Last Oregon chain I just bought this fall is Made in China.

[SwampDonkey]

I have so much firewood here, I never worry about burning for burning sake. I could burn half what I do if I wanted to conserve wood. I figure I have burned 2-1/2 cord now in about 4 months. Right now I have windows up. ;D But I like to exchange the air in the house, and often. So, that means wood heat wasted. Trade offs gents. I've saved about $10 grand in firewood costs cutting my own spread over 5 years. Mult that by 3 if it were oil. ;D Only excuses not to is health ,age and laziness. :D

[Al_Smith]

I don't know what it is about women and fans .I have lived with three and everyone of them liked fans blowing on them .I don't but I don't  say too much .I've got 7 ceiling fans and it seems like they are all  running .That winter of 1967 in Key West must have thinned my blood or something .Perhaps I just found three hot blooded women in my life .What's the odds of that . ???

[SwampDonkey]

What no palm fern fans, Al? :D

[Al_Smith]

No just 5 blade whirrly gigs like little upside down helicopters . I think with another half dozen they could lift the roof off .

[Magicman]

We broke an all time heat record yesterday @ 85° and we had the air conditioner running. 


 
It's 39° and steadily dropping today so we have something else running. 

[thecfarm]

I was out today doing some cutting. Only a few inches in the woods, I can go anywheres.
Cut down a couple good size white maple. Not much of a top to them. Did not count the rings, but 60-70 years old would not surprise me.
Hauled out the tops and I am hoping to find some deer sheds in the morning.

[Al_Smith]

The temp has dropped today, crisp 24 right now ,got a dusting of some kind of white stuff  .It looks like a  front is moving in .I had good intensions today but didn't work on my wood splitting yet . I did however see an eagle flying slowly over the oaks ,up maybe 130 feet looking for a nice fat squirrel or something .It's the only time I've ever heard one squawking in flight .Pop licker was kind of loud about it too .

[SwampDonkey]

I think I had the all time record here the other day at 87F. I had the windows open. ;D :D :D

[stavebuyer]

We broke an all time heat record yesterday @ 85° and we had the air conditioner running.  


 
It's 39° and steadily dropping today so we have something else running.  

Are you certain that you have enough wood on hand for that?

[Magicman]

Hopefully.  :D  It's 32° now and forecast to drop to 28° tonight, but we will be back into the mid 60°'s by Wednesday.  We very seldom see more than a couple of days of below freezing before it bounces back.

I'll be sawing tomorrow and I will wear my overalls.

[Al_Smith]

Well it's 16 degrees right now which has kind of driven the fire out of my enthusiasm .

[SwampDonkey]

I had an early morning fire here @ 5F when shovelling snow, won't be none the rest of the day until after dark. Solar heat will carry me through. It's only 80F in here, full sunshine. ;D  Love the smell of wood smoke when cleaning up the yard. ;)

[doc henderson]

47° now, ice and snow melting.