Firewood

[lpalma]

Charlie,
did you measure diagonally?should be about 5'

 

[digger]

Mark T.
We use our stoves for heating everything, including hot water, instead of a water heater, plus the hot tub.

Lew,
That wouldn't work, the Kubota doesn't have tilt forks, LOL

 

[kmcconaughey]

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<font size="-1">Charlie, that's easy to fix. Just say "Aaron, I have another project..."</font>

 

[jbaker]

Mark I use 12 to 15 cords a year

 

[digger]

Jeff B.
Man you need to get another stove! LOL
My old stove heating 15,560 S.F. only used 18 year before last.
Last year it only used 1/2 cord, LOL

 

[jbaker]

I think my usage my be higher due to how and what I heat, mine runs 10 to 11 months a year avg temp 170f.

I do over max out the size on my stove at times so my effeincy goes down, I need a bigger stove is correct.

first winter;

75 gallon domestic hot water heater,
125,000 btu coil in my forced air furnace to heat 3200 sq living space 70f avg,
95,000 btu hanging modine heater in basement 68f avg,
75,00btu hanging modine in 2 car garage 50f avg,
95,000 btu hanging modine in barn with coil always hot but fan not run much.

spring,fall, part of summer

75 gallon domestic hot water heater,
home made pool heater for a 18,000 gallon pool avg temp 79f

 

[aschumacher]

Jeff, does dried goat manure burn?...or is better for fertilizer. The middle east uses camel manure to cook over! Yucch

 

[digger]

Allen S.
Don't go messin with Jeff's goat poop!
He'll be smackin ya!

 

[jbaker]

Thanks for watching my back Charlie,

allen collecting goat poop would be like hunting for peanuts m&ms,,they just leave a bunch of little round balls lol

Ill stick with wood

 

[jchamberlin]

I wondered what was in those "Pellets" they put in stoves nowadays.

 

[mtarsus]

Jeff, that's nuts! It sounds like you're running a complex, not a house!

At this time, my house is natural gas, forced hot air on the first floor only. It is a 135 year old duplex, I bought it to renovate and use as a rental. When the time comes, I'll be looking at houses with a setup similar to what you are describing, maybe even with solar panels on the roof to supplement the electricity.

I am very curious about the workings of an outdoor boiler. Does it have some kind of temperature regulator aside from the damper on the door? Has it ever run over-temp? What happens if you lose electricity, does it run away and try to cook itself? Do you have any kind of supplemental heat source, such as an indoor furnace, just to cover your bases?

 

[jbaker]

Mark,
the damper door supplies fresh air to the smoldering wood to make heat, that is the only way to add heat.

It has and does run over its set point by a degree or two after the damper closes which is normal, has it ever "tea-kettled over" due to stuck or failed damper NO

if you loose electricity the damper fails closed and it just smolders away and out.-My wood stove circuit is tied into my generator in the event of power failure.

Yes I have propane as a back up in the forced air furnace that the wood stove coil is in. And it comes on automaticly at my decided temp differential setpoint

 

[mtarsus]

Jeff and others,

Wood stoves/boilers seem the way to go. Who wants to pay some utility company for the right to live comfortably? I will have to do a lot of reading before I endeavor to buy and install. Although, I'll have plenty of time; that day is years from now.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Got a semi load of mixed hardwood logs delivered this afternoon.

The place I have been buying semi loads of logs from for the past 15+ years was booked solid and was not taking any additional orders.

I found another place that sells logs by the semi load and placed an order with them a couple of weeks back. One problem we discovered when they got here is their hauling setup is a semi tractor and a trailer, while the place I had been buying from used a semi truck and pup trailer. The semi tractor and trailer were too long and couldn't make the turn into my driveway.

So they unloaded the 12 cords into the ditch along my property. I'm OK with that, it is much better than sending them away without getting any firewood AND paying for their time and fuel which the driver said would have been roughly $350.00!!!!

I am however concerned about theft as some of the smaller logs would be easy pickings for a couple of guys and a pickup. I plan on cutting up and moving the smaller stuff ASAP! Then I might order a set of THESE for use on my parent's big JD loader tractor and move the logs closer to where I usually have them piled. I'll have to cut one pine tree to be able to easily access the pile from my property but that tree died a year ago and I've been meaning to cut it down anyway.

In this first photo you can see the dead pine tree on the far left edge of the photo.

The first logs come off.

View looking south at the north end of the wood pile.

Here you can see both the pile of logs in the ditch and my firewood area in the background on the right.

Here's a detail photo of the dead pine which gives a better idea of the access I'll have to the north end of the wood pile once it's cut down.

Here's a photo of the JD loader tractor from quite a few years back. I think it'll do a decent job as a logging skidder/loader.

 

[jbaker]

I like it,, whats the address where the small pieces are stacked? lol

 

[kmcconaughey]

 

[vthomley]

Funny, Art had just emailed me about doing a little road trip north a few miles...........that Art guy.

 

[kmcconaughey]

Vince,

 

[aschumacher]

Vince, Art, Jeff, <font size="-2">ya know there are a bunch of very quiet, battery powered chain saws out there...</font>

 

[kmcconaughey]

Allen, you're not helping...