Cordwood

[cmhyland]

Wow 30 cord a year!

Where do you live Antartica? You could be personally causing global warming with 30 cord! Just kidding...

What kind of stove or stoves burn up 30 cord a year and how many sqft are you heating with that.

Thats between 600 to 700 million btus worth of wood... That is roughly equal to 4350 gallons of fuel oil....

Regards,
Chris

 

[450EXC]

Do some species give off more creosote than others or is that just a factor of proper seasoning ?

JimWalch's Nebraska link has the btus for Agent Orange, 32.9 million, yikes. It must feel warm when you pick it up to throw it in the stove.

 

[cmhyland]

Wow,
32.9 million btus.... The stuff must be made out of Thermite...

Half wood half rocket fuel....

Regards,
Chris

 

[jeffinsgf]

Not on the list . . . but Osage Orange (aka hedge or bodark) has more btu than the apple and hickory . . . I think it's the densest wood in North America. We have lots of it in Kansas, planted during the dust bowl years.

Rick

According to this month's Missouri Conservationist magazine, which had a similar chart, Osage Orange is 30,700

 

[turnkey4099]

Hi Harry,

Are you talking 30 full cord? If so that is a bunch of fire wood. Wood looks nice in the pile!

Wayne

Yep, full 128 cu ft cords. Of course I only made about 12 cord last season, the rest has been building up over the years.

The picture of the full 'bin" is typical of my 3 areas. The one with the splitter at work was the one I filled this year and I had to use unsplit rounds to extend that. Then there is a third 'bin' to the right of that one full of Locust.
Each 'bin is about 12' wide, the rails/ties are a minimum of 12' (one section is over 20ft. My ricks are stacked as high as I can stack - 6 1/2-7'

Except for Locust I try to burn the oldest wood first, i.e., first in, first used but that requires me to move everyting left over each year to empty one of the 'bins'

Most of the wood is Willow because it is free, and only a short haul. Yes, it burns fast so I have to 'chuck a chunk' on the fire every hour (or less).

Harry K

 

[cmhyland]

Harry,

Your a man on a mission... Do you want to fly up to Connecticut and help me stack some wood?

As for all woods putting out the same btus per pound that makes some sense.. Dense woods weigh more and burn longer....

Regards,
Chris

 

[AMP762]

Do some species give off more creosote than others or is that just a factor of proper seasoning ?

JimWalch's Nebraska link has the btus for Agent Orange, 32.9 million, yikes. It must feel warm when you pick it up to throw it in the stove.

Agent Orange must be pretty hot it took all the leaves off the trees in Nam.

 

[WayneB]

Harry all I can say is that is a bunch of wood. Although I have about 16 full cord cut spit and stacked here too. I am worried about the latest wood as it will be a few years before I will start burning it.

We burn mostly oak, maple, beech and birch. I do cut up some dead elm from time to time and use it in the late fall and early spring. Burns okay, but not much heat. Also if I didn't have a splitter I would not cut any elm.

We use between 4 and 5 cord a year, depending upon the temperatures and wind. Tonight we are talking close to zero so the fire will be hot for sure.

Cutting splitting and stacking wood keeps us young at heart if nothing else.


As for the guy that burns 30 cord a year I am not sure how you can do that? Just a whole bunch of fire wood, plus I am not sure how you would find room in your cellar to store it?

Regards,

Wayne

 

[bullridin_fool]

i'm sorry if i confused anyone, when i wrote 30 cord i meant face cords. i do cut my firewood around 20-22 inches long though. i've got a old farm house, thats right around 3,000 square feet counting the basement. it takes a bit of wood to keep it warm. i start my fire on the 31'st of october and usually shut it down around the middle of april, depending on how the temps are.

 

[cmhyland]

Well one thing is for sure, and this is when you heat from the basement it takes more wood. The upside is the floors are toasty warm.

I know a guy up the road who has a really big and really old house.
He has one of those outdoor boilers... He claims to have run 36 cord through it last year. Man thats a rude amout of wood...

Every time I see one of those outdoor boilers they are chugging smoke or smoldering. My wood stove, you rarely even see a slight whisp of smoke from my chimney.

Regards,
Chris