Filling up the hearth

Dex, you have the perfect setup. Pipe your OAK to the septic and burn methane gas along with wood and cut your consumption in half. I'm a genius

 

I wondered about that but I thought maybe that was the urinal when you were playing pool or something, who am I to judge.......
It does make more sense now though.

 

Here you go.... I brought in 2.5 bucket loads today and filled up the hearth with the cold temps headed our way. It work out great as the door is about chest high. Also I made it small to minimize on heat loss when it's open and I'm loading.

The shed where it's coming from.


Wood door in to the hearth


Using the loader to fill er up


Full hearth

 

The entire setup is cool Dex. Color matching racks, neat signage on the walls, oriental rugs, church pews near the table and the white colored captains chair. I like it all!

 

Brought in two wheelbarrowfuls of wood this noon. Not fun through the recent snowfall. Then I saw your post, Pete. Why did I never think of a sled????

Guess what I'm getting next time I go to Smiths Falls.......

 

Thanks for posting the pics. I need to do something this spring-summer, carrying wood into the house can be a pain.

 

It really is worth the effort! Once you do it you wonder why you waited so long!

 

A friend wants me to build a woodshed to the west of my home, and cut a loading door into the house. I just can't get myself to accept cutting another opening into the house. I'm trying so hard to eliminate drafts and to insulate.

Works pretty well bringing wheelbarrows full of wood to the steps, loading the wood on the steps into President's bins, then lifting the bins through the sliding glass door. I bring them in a couple at a time when I am out anyway. Minimizes the air exchange. The bins do a good job of containing the mess. They are a really handy design, with good hand grips on the end and carrying straps as well. When heating season is over, use some for gardening, the rest for shopping into. I can unload the wood from the bins onto my iron hoops, or, if the weather forecast is severe, leave the bins full of extra wood and line them up out of the way.

For those in the States who have not seen them, the bins are sold at the grocery store. The carts are made to hold the bins. You just shop into the bins, lift the bins onto the checkout counter, and the clerk rings the items up and loads them into an empty bin.
Really easy to carry, they store inside each other and can be used for other purposes, no bags falling over and items spilling in the car, no bottles rolling/falling out of the car and breaking....A great idea. Now, if they would just combine that with the self scanner, food shopping would be very convenient.

Sorry...got off the topic.

 

Mine doesn't draft at all...... I face sealed the door with heavy duty foam stripping and it has pressure applied to the back side of it to keep it against the foam stripping. The interior of the door is foam filled and the door frame sits between two studs. I then blocked off above and below the studs with block off plates and foam filled the remaining area all the way around the door frame. Even in the negative temps we have had I couldn't feel a single draft from anywhere around it. My sliding glass doors on the back of my house are a different story........ It felt like the air was blowing through every seal on them.