neighbor lady
had a tree fall this summer, a big white oak. yesterday we split out about two face cords of it, green and sticky. It will be good for her this winter, but it won’t be easily burnable until maybe january, it’s still too wet.
I have a wad of Cherry given me by Mr B, and we burned a few pieces of it over the weekend; We approve, wholeheartedly. Supposed to be warmer this week, but one way or the nother, I’ll be happy to have the firewood. It looks like a cold hard winter is coming. And I’m not just talking about the elections.
Glad you like the cherry.
Sure wish Mom and Dad had sprung for the extra couple of hundred bucks to put a fireplace in the house when they built it. Sigh.
But for an extra grand they could have had brick instead of masonite siding, too.
Of course in those days, Dad’s weekly take-home was only about $65. So I understand why they didn’t.
Just got done splitting some wet white oak with son and heir. That Bud powered wood splitter doesn’t work like it used to.
We heated entirely with wood for a couple of years in the house and nearly 20 years in my shop. I found that wood that was cut & split after September first was pretty useless that Winter. If it was in the stack and under cover before August, it was probably OK. There is a WORLD of difference in heating value between truly dry wood and stuff that isn’t.
Nathan, a fireplace is mostly a net loss as far as heating goes, especially when it gets below freezing outside. You want an airtight stove that’s feeding into an insulated double-wall chimney.
You may well be in for a harder winter judging by the one we just had here in the antipode… plus the Antarctic ice grew a bit more than usual.
jd, I know…got no safe or logical place to put the stove, though, and the house is on a slab, so no basement, either, which would be perfect. I just like fireplaces :)
I was in the HVAC business for about 25 years. It’s been interesting to see people starting to move back to wood. I believe I recall seeing some retrofit stokers for old-fashioned gravity furnaces that used wood pellets. (In fact I just saw a barbeque grill at Costco this weekend that had a similar system.)
Nothing wrong with old technology.