Just a thought as it drops down to 45 outside, and my desire to venture out at night into the cool air decreases a bit. I keep 2 days wood indoors in a poly cart. I remember before I got this having to get wood for each fire from outside. If there was any snow, it was worse. If a fire requires fuel, oxygen, and heat, I would think that burning room temp wood would offgas quicker. Moisture obviously uses btu to melt off snow or frozen trapped moisture. I haven't noticed too big of a difference I guess except when melting snow off wood from outside. I do find it a bit easier to light though. If anything, it's nice to handle room temperature splits. I know many keep wood inside, some even quite a bit in there basements. Just curious whether anyone on here still brings in for each fire from stacks outside? When it's cold, I try and bring in as much as possible so the trek thru the snow is limited. I have stacks piled anywhere on the tile floor I can actually. I load my pickup bed maybe once a week and park it close for unloading directly into the wheelbarrow instead of visiting the stacks too often. I don't have that much stacked right next to the bldg other than maybe 1.5 cord which I try to only draw from when it's really cold and snowy. More like an emergency stack for snowy conditions when gathering and hauling from the stacks requires a sled.
I usually keep enough in the house to last me 2 days as well. I usually put my racks right next to my house in the middle of October and put about a cord there. That should last me a while. I guess it depends on how cold. Once I fill up my stove to the max, I usually get about 8 to 10 hour burn times...
We keep most of our supply in the basement. If we had mor room t would all come in. Grandpa always brought it all in, so did Dad, so does my brother. None f us have has any pest problems ever.
I only keep a day at a time indoors, but I have 2 cords on the covered front porch. I can step out in my socks or slippers and grab more workout much trouble. I wouldn't hesitate to keep more inside if my set up demanded it.
I keep a 3 to 4 day supply on the front porch, of which I will carry in 6 or 8 pieces at a time and keep beside the stove. Works well for me.
Single car garage with a little over 2 cord in it. Was a porch at one time converted years ago, so its all just outside the back door. I do add to it about the middle of heating season. So except for that I am not playing in the weather getting fuel multiple times a week. I also keep a bit inside once it gets really cold out- lights off faster from coals- than from the cold storage.
I store mine in the basement where the furnace is. I can stack about half the winters wood inside, which is roughly 14 face cord. The rest is stacked outside under a 10dx12wx8h pole barn type shed.
I get four or five cords in my basement. Sisters house and moms house the same. Sometimes we need to replenish especially my Mom. She likes it warm. People worry about bugs. We've been doing it this way since I can remember and I'm getting old enough that remembering isn't easy. Might have a few extra spiders but most bugs in the wood really like it in there. They stay put right until they get incinerated.
I built a wood box that will hold two full size truck loads in the basement. I usually wait till we get a couple good freezes then knock the wood before loading to get any critters off It is nice on those cold snowy days having wood inside. I hate refilling it though
Good thread. This being my first year burning I will be working out a system. I am going to bring a few days wood in. Have a little over a cord under the covered porch out back to grab from in thw middle of winter but shoulder season would is a littlw far away.
I keep about 1/2 days worth in the house, since that's about all that'll fit. I just make however many trips out to the shed as needed. Jammie pants, t-shirt, and slippers, and I'm gooder. Makes me hurry. I'll sometimes put a 1/3 cord on the porch, then refill when it starts getting low, but it gets a little snow sometimes. Not much more effort to go out the 13-15' to the shed. It varies.
I keep 2 weeks worth in the basement. Even if the wood is a little wet from snow or rain, it's dried out by the time I burn it. My dad keeps a week's worth outside on the porch, and brings it in as needed to burn. He doesn't seem to have any issues either, although his firewood is stored in a barn so it never sees rain. I doubt it takes that many btu's to warm up cold wood. The key is dry wood, I wouldn't want to be putting anything that hisses much into the stove.
Pretty sure Backwoods Savage doesn't keep any or much inside, I seem to remember pics from him, wood stove on one side of the sliding glass door, porch wood stack on the other, open sliding door, load stove, close door. Somebody around here loads a utility trailer full and then parks the trailer on their porch, can't remember who. I can keep about a cord in the basement. I usually end up reloading the basement stash based on the weather so I don't end up reloading during a super cold snap or stormy weather.
I built a wood rack system that holds ~1/3 cord each and can be hauled from the woodshed to the house garage with my lil baby forklift and then set on a HD 4 wheel cart and wheeled right into the furnace room. I only put 1 or 2 racks in before I realized that the asian lady beetles were hiding in the wood and they were waking up once they thawed out...we had tons of those dang things in the house that winter! I leave the racks in the attached garage now and just bring in what I need for that load, it still works out really well
I have a chest near the stove we dont really use. Thinking as of now it will hold some wood until I build a rack for inside. Its about 19w 34l and 17d. Looking to build something like this in the near future. Someone recently posted something similar on the forum.
I keep about a day's worth inside on the brick hearth next to each stove. Means I gotta haul it in every day, but it's only 50' to the woodshed, so not a big deal. Lotta spiders in the wood, so have to knock the splits against each before tossing into the bin I use to haul it in. Otherwise I get interrupted right in the middle of the ballgame by the wife shrieking that there's a spider THIS BIG on the wall. Had an interesting experience years back. I had some wood that had a little rot, and when I split it there were a f ew termites here and there, so I was careful (so I thought) to make sure none made it into the wood shed. One morning I got up and went in to start a fire and the wall and ceiling above the lamp that stays on all night was crawling with winged termites. At first I panicked and thought they came out of the walls, then realized I had some of that partially-rotted wood stacked next to the stove, and that they musta come from that. I spent the next half hour killing the little buggers.
1/6 of a cord at a time inside. (half of a face cord or a rick). It sits next to the stove. I keep about a cord or so just outside the nearest window. I hand it in through the window to the Mrs. who stacks it, or have the kids hand it in to me.
