Welcome to the site! I was hoping you were a Husqvarna fan that would be willing to send us official Husqvarna swag direct from Sweden!
Welcome aboard! We hosted an exchange student from Arvika. This is a friendly place. I hope your family is safe from the virus we are all battling.
Welcome aboard Chris from Sweden! Great introduction thread- pics of saw, wood, dog, vacation home wood cook stove..... you nailed it! Glad you finally joined up and posted. Stay safe and sanitized!
The most common firewood in Sweden is birch, Betula pendula. Almost everyone that burn wood say that is the best spice. For me I do not like birch because my secondary combustion is not working as good as in newer stoves. For me I prefer hazelnut, Corylus avellana. I know it is more busy than tree but the BTUs is incredibly. We also has problems with our ash, Fraxinus excelsior. So I take care of some of that as well. I feed my stove every hour with a few sticks. Otherwise it will fade out in two-three hours. After I hang on this forum I have made it last all night. I aim at 11 inch long sticks and since my door on the stove is only 4x4 inch I make my sicks around 2x2 inch. The reason people only burn for a couple of hours at the time are mainly because we are told in media that with to lite air to the fire it creates a lot creosote. So we often burn hot fires for shorter time than you do. I answer more questions soon. And thanks for the warm welcome.
Everyone else has said it, but, here goes, WELCOME ABOARD CHRIS!! And, you bet that's a nice trailer, great stacks, of wood as well. Now, you have me in the mood again, lol to split up some more wood. I purposely left some rounds of maple so i could have a little splitting to do when i get bored, so, i did that and stacked it yesterday. Now, i'm looking outside i have some other wood, Alder to split up a little more, and stack it as well. Its time to keep the wood uncovered for now, so it'll dry and be ready for this fall. Keep up with the pictures, great looking spot. I'd love to have a summer place to ''hide out in'' and just be out, cutting, splitting, and stacking wood.
Welcome aboard Chris, I too love the trailer, looks really handy! I have Swedish blood from my mothers side.
The fourth pictures I started this thread was and ash. I had to remove it due to a fungus that kill our ashes. It was about 2 feet in diameter. I usually do not bother with trees that big. I prefer trees between 3 and 8 inches in diameter. When a took the tree down I had toll fell it on my neighbor's land so I had to take care of it. I had to go old school to split that tree If it had landed on my property I probably let it be and call that dead wood that would be good for the wildlife. Anyway, when I splited it in two I could bring it back to my 6 metric ton spliter And stacked it in my new pile This is not for my self. I have a house that I rent out and in that house there is a stove. So I working on my new three year plan. Maybe I sell some of it as well but we only get around $120-150 per cord so it is hardly worth the effort.
I have a 2.0 cu ft and a 0.6 cu ft stove and short hot fires tend to burn cleanest . Especially in the smaller (and older) of the two stoves. It just isn't the most convenient sometimes. I'd rather not clean goo from the chimney, so often have two or three fires a day. I have relatives in Alesund.NO and around that area and some have smaller stoves that take 0.25 - 0.3 meter pieces and are of the habit of just heating the rooms they are using at the time or period of the day. Some would call it frugal but it's more of not using any more than you really need rather than being cheap which frugal can imply sometimes. 3 or 4 stoves in the house rather than 1 big one.
In Sweden it is common to leave the firewood unstacked. Many people think it dries better that way. I tried it a couple of years ago. It would probably worked ok if I had pallets under. But I guess you could have told me that if I knew about this club back then
Welcome to the FHC Chris from Sweden . Went their when I was really young 8 or 9 as grandfather sold Saabs.
Hey Chris from Sweden welcome. I've got no Swedish connections, but I've always wanted to be a viking...and I do enjoy the Absolut
Hello again. I heard that president Trump use Sweden in how not to handle Corona. I do not agree on that statement. My belief is that when this crasy time is over and the number of dead is added up it is not worse than an bad winter flu. But. Now back to firewood I was in my dad's forest this morning. It is only 1 acre so no idea to let a forest company do anything with it or some other serious to it. Three years ago the government threatened to make it as a government protected area due to it was good for the wildlife. It was a mess, to say the least. The government removed its thread. So he asked me to see what to do with it. Me and my dad has probably taken 15-20 cord css. But it's still firewood there So in case the winter 2040-41 will be cold. Neither me or dad has needed the firewood there so that's the reason we haven't don it before. Plus that piece of land is located 2 miles from our house and 1 mile from dads house, so to far away You loved my trailer, so here's another picture
Welcome aboard Chris from Sweden Nice to see one more country represented here on FHC Hope you and your family are well during these trying times Hoard on friend. BTW.. I as well think your English is just fine.
B.Brown the European alder is perfect if you are not ahead of the firewood supply. It dries really quickly. It is also beautiful if you saw it into boards and make wood panels from it with a red colour. It's probably the same with your alder.
billb3 our house is around 680 square feet used to have 2 chimneys with 4 maybe 5 stoves. After different renovations we only has our wood cooking stove left. But it's in the middle of the house, so it's ok. Otherwise we use electric radiators
I was back in the forest this morning. An other place than yesterday. It's maybe 5 miles from our house. It's around 5 acre of Norwegian spruce plantation. It needs some serious thinning I started thinning earlier this spring But a lot of wood need to go the next couple of years. So it will be a good timber production forest. Half was planted around 1980 and half around 2000. Two year ago the neighbour harvested his forest and it has stormed from that direction a couple of times this winter. So some trees has blown down (maybe 100). Anyway a did pick up some of the trees today that I removed earlier. I can't leave it in the forest due to bugs. I think you have the same bugs in the US. Everything bigger than 2 once need to be removed. So now I need your advice. What should I do with it? I already have a timber house, I have firewood for the next 15 year and no one wants it anyway for firewood. Last time I picked up a load from there I made swedish torch and rocket torch that will last my lifetime. My plan is to remove 30 cords in the next couple of years, so I can do something serious. And since the focus in this amazing club is firewood I want to share a story that took place when I was a teenager. My parents had just divorced and I wanted to help dad save on the electric bill. So I feed his stove every quarter with truly dry spruce. The top of the stove went from black to red. So it burns quick and hot. And one more thing. We have a little fire pit in that forest
