I am cleaning my chimney today. That's a good thing. Muddy and can't get out to cut and split, that's a bad thing. Not burning through my wood...
34* outside. I cleaned the ashes out and loaded white ash in. It sure is easy to heat the house with the insert in temps like this.
We have 2 furnaces and a wood insert. Upstairs we have a gas furnace and downstairs we have a heat pump. On mild days, days in the 30's or above,...
It was -11* this morning, 14* and sunny now. Red oak and hickory are heating the house. Tomorrow we are suppose to hit 30* and they are saying we...
How did you obtain that information?
A few things come to mind. First, is it all pieces or mostly the limb wood rounds that haven't been split? Second, was it just top covered with a...
-8* this morning. It may drop a couple more degrees before the sun comes up. Got the fire going this morning with hickory and mulberry. Just a...
Man, what a difference 20* makes! We warmed up to 21* today and it was easy keeping the house warm. I let the fire burn down the coals twice today...
It's 3* in central Indiana now, and we aren't suppose to drop below zero tonight. Tomorrow is even better news, we are suppose to make it to 20*F....
That wood kind of looks like the Kentucky coffee tre I cut last year. You can search for pictures of it on this forum under that name.
-12* this morning. House was 68* with our heat pump running on auxiliary heat when I got home . I did clean some ashes out and reloaded with ash...
I'm at work so I don't know what my wife is going to load. I hope it's a load of big splits, and I told her where the secret stash of Osage was....
Looks like it may be red elm.
No I wouldn't. I cut wood in the winter months to get outside with the added benefits of heating my house and saving some money. I don't get in...
-9* this morning and windy. The stove did well with a load of hickory and oak. I loaded up with more of the same but threw a big cherry split in...
0* and predicted to just go negative. Heavy winds though and they are sucking the heat out of the house. The heat pump kicked on yesterday morning...
I believe birch will rot quickly of left in logs. I have heard people say they run a "zipper" down the log on a couple of sides. Esentially...
That's the big thing for me. I'm saving a couple of hundred a month in December, January, and Febuary... So around $600 for the coldest months....
What type of wood do you wish you had more access to? For me it is oak. I have access to a lot of very good woods like ash, black locust, honey...
It's 18* outside and it feels warm. It's funny how you get used to the single digits and a slight warm up really helps. Ash and hackberry got...
