Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[cartod]

Wood, wood WOOD, wOOd, and more WooD.

 

[hutchman]

Wood, wood WOOD, wOOd, and more WooD.

Nice operation! How many cords a year does your OWB use?

 

[cartod]

Nice operation! How many cords a year does your OWB use?

Around 15 last year but its a 4500 sq ft home and it does the hot water too.

 

[TomSeller]

Around 15 last year but its a 4500 sq ft home and it does the hot water too.

Nice place! Does the 4500 sq ft include the garage?

 

[BethelHntr]

cartod, what temperature do you try to maintain in that beautiful home? I have been seriously contemplating a outdoor wood furnace for my humble abode.

 

[Gordon Gould]

That is a very nice place ! But 15 cord seems like a lot to me. Guess those ODB's are hungry.
My place is 1368 square feet or 2736 including the basement which is unfinished but heated. We live in northern Vermont and only use 3-1/2 to 4 cord a year for our sole source of heat in a plain old wood stove. We also use 250 gal's of oil for hot water though and we are well insulated.

I supply wood to a neighbor with a single story log cabin and ODB and he uses about 12 cord a year plus all the pallets he can find. A full size p/u truck load every week.

Wonder why those boilers use so much wood ??

gg

 

[hutchman]

That is a very nice place ! But 15 cord seems like a lot to me. Guess those ODB's are hungry.
My place is 1368 square feet or 2736 including the basement which is unfinished but heated. We live in northern Vermont and only use 3-1/2 to 4 cord a year for our sole source of heat in a plain old wood stove. We also use 250 gal's of oil for hot water though and we are well insulated.

I supply wood to a neighbor with a single story log cabin and ODB and he uses about 12 cord a year plus all the pallets he can find. A full size p/u truck load every week.

Wonder why those boilers use so much wood ??

gg

If he's like one of my co-workers, that's a whole years worth ... not just winter. Runs all the time to provide hot water even during summer.

 

[hutchman]

That is a very nice place ! But 15 cord seems like a lot to me. Guess those ODB's are hungry.
My place is 1368 square feet or 2736 including the basement which is unfinished but heated. We live in northern Vermont and only use 3-1/2 to 4 cord a year for our sole source of heat in a plain old wood stove. We also use 250 gal's of oil for hot water though and we are well insulated.

I supply wood to a neighbor with a single story log cabin and ODB and he uses about 12 cord a year plus all the pallets he can find. A full size p/u truck load every week.

Wonder why those boilers use so much wood ??

gg

If he's like one of my co-workers, that's a whole years worth ... not just winter. Runs all the time to provide hot water even during summer.

 

[Gordon Gould]

If he's like one of my co-workers, that's a whole years worth ... not just winter. Runs all the time to provide hot water even during summer.

Well I burn 250 gal of oil for hot water per year. That is equivalent to 1-1/2 cord of hardwood. Even if you say 3 or 4 cord for hot water that leaves about 12 cord for heat in W VA and that just seems like an awful lot to me. Maybe I figured wrong. Below is what I used. So he is using 330 Million BTUs yearly for heat and hot water in W VA vs my 125 Million BTU in northern VT. My house is half as big but we are much colder.

100 gal oil - 13.33 Million BTU
1 ton wood pellets - 16.5 Million BTU
1 cord hard wood - 22 Million BTU

 

[crazyal]

My house is pretty good energy wise. I burn about 2 1/2 cord a year and maybe 200 gallons of oil. The oil does both the back up heating and all of my hot water. My house is a 3200 sqf post and beam (including the heated basement) with foam panels (SIPs). I usually give my mother 3 cords a year since I'll have 5 to 6 cords of trees that are sick, blown downs, or just ones that I want removed. I couldn't imagine going through 12~15 cords a year. I guess since you don't have to split it there wouldn't be as much work but still that's an awful lot of wood.