I was just wondering how many of you folks burn firewood to keep warm in the winter? How much do you use and if you buy some of it how much do you have to pay per cord? We burn about 7 cords a year and a little heating oil. We have been paying $200 /cord for quite a few years but I have seen it selling for a lot more. Wood of choice around here is hard maple with a little ash, cherry, yellow birch and some soft maple thrown in. We supplement with wood we cut on our land and have about 14 cords in stock as of now. It always feels good to have the firewood put away for the winter.
Do you burn firewood?
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Ruger Guru
Well, in my house,,, we don't have any form of fireplace that can burn wood. Both Miss Penny & I like it,,, but we both are realistic enough to know it'd be a bit more work for us to have a fireplace or wood stove.
And, I've always know that firewood warms you 3 times.
Once when you cut it, Once when you burn it, and Once when you clean it out.
And, I've always know that firewood warms you 3 times.
Once when you cut it, Once when you burn it, and Once when you clean it out.
Rick Courtright
Hawkeye
Hi,
It doesn't take much to keep us warm here at the foot of the mountains, though folks up the hill do need a fair amount more. My brother uses maybe a half cord at the most, while friends up the hill would use a cord to a cord and a half most winters (all in standard woodburning stoves.) Orange and eucalyptus are local favorites here, running from $180/half cord to $250/cord last year. Both are becoming more scarce each year, with prices going up accordingly. Pine is probably No. 1 up the hill, price unknown. A lot of folks get a permit from the Forest Service to gather firewood, so for actual money output, it's "free" other than the minimal permit cost. Of course, there's a lot of work involved.
My sister and BIL in NorCal use a minimum of a full cord, but never more than two cords that I recall. It's not that much colder there than here, but they like to keep their house way too warm for some of us. Oak is their favorite, mostly sourced from their own property or neighbors for the cost of labor until a couple of years ago, and I dunno what they pay now, but I'd guess $250/cord minimum, maybe closer to $300 by now. Their oak supplies are diminishing, too.
In their area, the air quality people are having kittens about smoke and trying to get folks to go to pellet stoves if they have to burn something other than propane. My BIL is an "early adopter" and looked into them a couple of years ago. The price of the stoves wasn't so bad, but the cost of operation scared him, so their old stove's still working "just fine."
Rick C
It doesn't take much to keep us warm here at the foot of the mountains, though folks up the hill do need a fair amount more. My brother uses maybe a half cord at the most, while friends up the hill would use a cord to a cord and a half most winters (all in standard woodburning stoves.) Orange and eucalyptus are local favorites here, running from $180/half cord to $250/cord last year. Both are becoming more scarce each year, with prices going up accordingly. Pine is probably No. 1 up the hill, price unknown. A lot of folks get a permit from the Forest Service to gather firewood, so for actual money output, it's "free" other than the minimal permit cost. Of course, there's a lot of work involved.
My sister and BIL in NorCal use a minimum of a full cord, but never more than two cords that I recall. It's not that much colder there than here, but they like to keep their house way too warm for some of us. Oak is their favorite, mostly sourced from their own property or neighbors for the cost of labor until a couple of years ago, and I dunno what they pay now, but I'd guess $250/cord minimum, maybe closer to $300 by now. Their oak supplies are diminishing, too.
In their area, the air quality people are having kittens about smoke and trying to get folks to go to pellet stoves if they have to burn something other than propane. My BIL is an "early adopter" and looked into them a couple of years ago. The price of the stoves wasn't so bad, but the cost of operation scared him, so their old stove's still working "just fine."
Rick C
huntsman22
Blackhawk
yeah.....
mohavesam
Hawkeye
Whoa... are your walls magnetic?
huntsman22 said:yeah.....
LOOK AT ALL THOSE TREASURES, IN A BEAUTIFUL ROOM
WITH A COZY FIRE ON A RAISED HEARTH.............LOVE IT ALL! 8) :!:
I haven't used wood since the mid 1980's. I installed a wood stove my FIL had built on a FISHER design. We used 3 cords per year at $35.00/ year for fuel for the chainsaw and truck. Friends had a sawmill and cut mostly Maple, leaving the tops, which I scavenged, plus a couple of neighbors were clearing land for farming, and we're grateful for me to come and take what I needed( mostly oak). Where I am now, I have a lot of land with trees that are down(tornadoes some years back), but nothing to burn it in. My trailer is ALL electric.
gramps
gramps
CGDustDevil
Buckeye
Our house in town has a fireplace, but the place out here in the desert does not. I love wood heat. I lived in an old farmhouse up in Maine when I was dirt poor and couldn't afford heating oil... I installed an old Ashley Automatic wood stove in the kitchen. It was a dandy! I went through about 12 cords a year. Half I'd buy and the other half I'd cut myself. I worked all year round on wood... It was a pig. Couldn't do it today.
exavid
Hunter
For seven years in Ketchikan I heated my four bedroom two story house with an Earth Stove. It took six or seven cords of wood to get through the winter. Lucky for me I lived near the beach and could cut up drift logs. When the sawmill and pulp mill was still in operation you could find logs all over the beaches, escapees from log rafts. You could also find wooden 'wheels' all over the beaches. Those were the ends of the logs that had brands on them. That's the first thing one cuts off a log. Supposedly the various owners of the rafts were supposed to be the ones who salvage the beached logs but seems like they never got around to it. Or at least not fast enough. Half the town heated with 'hot' logs. I was in my thirties back then, a real hand with a chain saw, maul and wedges. Just thinking about it now makes my back hurt. I couldn't buck, split and stack half a cord now without a couple of visits to an ER in the process. Sad what too many winters does to a man.
powder smoke
Hawkeye
I burn about 8 cords a year of mixed hardwood between my house and shop. I own
about 68 acres of land and cut and split my own. Lots of work but the old house I
have would be expensive to heat with oil. Getting the house update new windows doors
Insulation is a work in progress. Thing is I always have plenty to do and keeps me going.
Even if I did not have to I wood still burn wood. I'd still do it.
Nothing like backing up to a hot stove, on a cold winter day.ps
about 68 acres of land and cut and split my own. Lots of work but the old house I
have would be expensive to heat with oil. Getting the house update new windows doors
Insulation is a work in progress. Thing is I always have plenty to do and keeps me going.
Even if I did not have to I wood still burn wood. I'd still do it.
Nothing like backing up to a hot stove, on a cold winter day.ps
prairieviper
Single-Sixer
Our land has plenty of trees for firewood and we cut our own. Wood popular for firewood in our area consist of mostly oak, walnut, hickory and black locust. We use wood to supplement our electric heat and how much we use varies with what kind of winter we are having.
I burned wood as the only heat source for over 20 years. The last 2 or 3 years of that, I was buying it cheap from a guy who had no other source of income during winter. It finally became too much of a chore to handle and with both of us gone all day, the house was cold half of every day.
I spent the $$ and bought a "biomass" (wood pellets, wheat, or corn) furnace with a thermostat. It's been a sound investment but isn't as user friendly as LP gas. With corn prices dropping like a rock, I'm sure I'll be burning corn this winter. Unlike cord wood or wood pellets, I don't have to carry it at all-a self designed and built vac system moves it from transport to feed hopper.
I spent the $$ and bought a "biomass" (wood pellets, wheat, or corn) furnace with a thermostat. It's been a sound investment but isn't as user friendly as LP gas. With corn prices dropping like a rock, I'm sure I'll be burning corn this winter. Unlike cord wood or wood pellets, I don't have to carry it at all-a self designed and built vac system moves it from transport to feed hopper.
Do up about 5 cord here at Rancho Relaxo, and a couple of cord a year for Mom across town...
Mom has a nice woodlot, so cost is gas and time...
Going price down here in the Champlain Valley right now is $250 cut, split, and delivered...
Where are you in The Kingdom?
Mom has a nice woodlot, so cost is gas and time...
Going price down here in the Champlain Valley right now is $250 cut, split, and delivered...
Where are you in The Kingdom?
Colonialgirl
Hawkeye
SNARKIE COMMENT: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
Gee with all those wild fires in SoCal burning up ten's of thousands of acres of woods, I would think California would be well heated for ALL winter with no sking up at Big Bear and shirt sleeve temperatures.
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
OKAY, OKAY I KNOW, GO ahead and smack away!!
:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :wink: :wink: :wink: :mrgreen:
Gee with all those wild fires in SoCal burning up ten's of thousands of acres of woods, I would think California would be well heated for ALL winter with no sking up at Big Bear and shirt sleeve temperatures.
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
OKAY, OKAY I KNOW, GO ahead and smack away!!
:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :wink: :wink: :wink: :mrgreen:
I have two fireplaces, one in living room on main floor and one in basement. Wife has one upstairs so cluttered with seasonal stuff etc, that I only use the basement one. Only use it when it gets below 0 degrees out.
Huntsman, great room and picture.
Huntsman, great room and picture.
I have an "OWB" and heat our water all yr. heat the house and garage during cold weather. fella across the road is cutting some pine and popal logs on a portable mill, puts the slabs long side the road fer free. There also is a commercial pallet mill in town and I've been buying pallets stacked six ft high with their hardwood waste.(48in) $10.00 a pallet,, cut it in half on a $40 table saw and chuck it in da stove.
Last Dec. I bought a dump truck load of hardwood logs for $750,(he said 'bout 7-8 full cord.)
Last Dec. I bought a dump truck load of hardwood logs for $750,(he said 'bout 7-8 full cord.)
Well my first thought has to do with grammar to a degree.....
What else would you do with Firewood?
That being said, as a professional.... be aware the current folks in the government not only want to take your guns away but also your firewood. I'm not kidding ....
What else would you do with Firewood?
That being said, as a professional.... be aware the current folks in the government not only want to take your guns away but also your firewood. I'm not kidding ....
mohavesam
Hawkeye
Burning wood leaves a zero carbon footprint, for those who believe in that sort of junk science.
Blume is on-target. Two counties in AZ now declare which days are legal for burning firewood (not based on outdoor temperature).
Burn on a no-burn day, you get a triple-figure fine.
Collect a third offense (or don't pay the fine), the county can confiscate your firewood stash.
And charge you a surcharge for that.
Already black-letter law.
Blume is on-target. Two counties in AZ now declare which days are legal for burning firewood (not based on outdoor temperature).
Burn on a no-burn day, you get a triple-figure fine.
Collect a third offense (or don't pay the fine), the county can confiscate your firewood stash.
And charge you a surcharge for that.
Already black-letter law.
OP
blume357 said:
OK Blume, I guess you got me on that one! :lol:
