I heard about this site on another firewood forum. This site seems to cover more of my interests. I have an obsession with everything wood - falling trees, planting more, splitting firewood, sawing lumber, and even cooking with it. Here's a few pics of my current hoard - about 2 years worth of firewood, and a couple logs ill be sawing into lumber. The split stuff is red and silver maple, and poplar - enough for this winter. The unsplit stuff is green and white ash, and black locust, that's going to season for a year or two.
Welcome to FHC-- you are going to fit right in. I look forward to your pictures in the Smoke House in particular!
Nice hord of wood you have there Welcome aboard Shawn come and hang out anytime. Have a seat by the fire
Welcome to the forum, I think you'll the low key, easy going attitude here. Everyone seems to get along and we talk about most everything. How much wood do you usually burn in a typical winter? How many square ft is your home and what kind of stove do you burn with?
Hey Shawn. Welcome to the FHC. Looks like you got it figured out. Hang around anyway. Like one big happy around here.
I have about a 1300sqft ranch-style house, built in 1986. It's got a really nice full basement (currently unheated) where I have my wood shop set up. I have an older free standing wood stove - not one of these new high efficiency ones - but made breakfast on it one morning last winter when I lost power. Should be able to heat it with 6-10 face cord if we don't have another winter like last year.
It's funny Grizz, how different parts of the country talk differently about cord counts. I'm still confused about face cords
I don't mind all the different term, I have a pretty good handle on all of them, but with face cords and ricks they are dependant on cut length and it can make a big discrepancy in measurements over the course of a whole burning season.
I split by hand so my lengths tend to vary, because ill saw through the big knots or funny curves. Probably average about 17-18". A face cord is just 4x8x whatever length its cut to. So about 2.6 of my face cords go into a cord. I find it simpler to measure by the face cord - and just divide 48 by the length to convert to cords.
