Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[shooterdon]

Ideal size of wood is not my concern. I need a mix of sizes and I like larger pieces to keep the fire going for hours when I am out or at night. Wood is not that expensive and a, say, 10% gain in "efficiency" is not as important to me as having a fire that works.

 

[Williy]

Some squirrel can say small pieces burn more efficiently
but I bet you the little pieces will burn up a lot faster than
you want because they do not last very long so the larger
chunks will burn longer and you don't need to get up in the
middle of the night to restock your stove!
Now the little pieces are great for a cook stove as you don't
have the space for the large chunks of wood
I wonder why so many guys say that you have to clean out
your stove pipes or chimney, as many years that I have burned
wood I never ever cheaned out a stove pipe or chimney and I
burned green pine sometimes.

willy

 

[Helogabals]

my furnace's user's manual says:

This is how it looks like

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20 kW boiler + 2 T accu

Boiler controls T, O2 and CO2.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I wonder why so many guys say that you have to clean out
your stove pipes or chimney, as many years that I have burned
wood I never ever cheaned out a stove pipe or chimney and I
burned green pine sometimes.

willy

When wood smoke goes up the chimney it contains a lot of wood product vapors. Creosote is one of them. If your chimney is hot enough all the way up through to the top the vapors stay as vapors and the chimney stays clean. Otherwise, on a cooler flue, the vapors condense as liquid on the flue lining and then the liquid turn to solid as it cools further. The water in wood turns to steam which at 212* cools the smoke so dry wood has hotter smoke and is better. Living in Texas it is easier to keep your flue hot compared to a place where the weather is much colder. So it is a combination of how seasoned your wood is, how hot you burn it, and how cold the chimney is that determines how fast your chimney gets dirty.

gg

 

[aeblank]

Mine is from 2005.
By bowl do you mean the refractory tunnel?
I have replaced mine 3 times in 17 years

Yeah. I've replaced mine about the same. Rumor is they had a "bad batch" of them recently. I went probably 12+ years with the original and now it's every couple years. Sucks.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Started in on the 4th load of pulp. These are some ugly pines!

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If you can get rid of that stuff and come close to breaking even it is well worth it in my book. My fir is a little different - on the outside they are pretty straight and a picture of health with good tops but they sure are ugly on the inside Sort of like trying to make a silk purse from a sows ear. What's left in the woods rots quick because it has a good head start.

We are starting to get a little fall color now.

gg

 

[hunt4570]

If you can get rid of that stuff and come close to breaking even it is well worth it in my book. My fir is a little different - on the outside they are pretty straight and a picture of health with good tops but they sure are ugly on the inside Sort of like trying to make a silk purse from a sows ear. What's left in the woods rots quick because it has a good head start.


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We are starting to get a little fall color now.

gg

So are those pines???? Dont look anything like the pines I have.

 

[Gordon Gould]

So are those pines???? Dont look anything like the pines I have.

No - what's left is puny fir - balsam fir. Even though you can't read it is good you can see a picture. Couldn't help myself.

Are you hunkered down or in a safe spot - if there is any...

gg

 

[fruitcakesa]

Yeah. I've replaced mine about the same. Rumor is they had a "bad batch" of them recently. I went probably 12+ years with the original and now it's every couple years. Sucks.

My scenario almost exactly, the first one went 11 years and I have had 2 more in the last 5 years

 

[hunt4570]

No - what's left is puny fir - balsam fir. Even though you can't read it is good you can see a picture. Couldn't help myself.

Are you hunkered down or in a safe spot - if there is any...

gg

Yeah, fruitcakesa started talking pines (didn't think his looked like pines either) and then you continued so I was wondering...
I am about 2 1/2 hours from the coast and "normally" by the time these storms get this far inland its usually just a windy rain event. At least in the 8 or so years I have been here. I think I am ready!!