We traveled around, explored, and picked NE Iowa. Scenic, not too crowded, not expensive, four seasons, and is in the middle. We camp a lot and...
I agree. I also feel this also applies to wood drying to explain why red oak takes so long to dry (hard fibers). Lower density wood may have...
I have the Makita 14" battery chainsaw and have cut 4-5 cords per year for several years without difficulty. My largest cut is a 21" green red...
I enjoy reading books, forums, blogs... about firewood and the concept of "hot" firewood versus "medium" has always caught my attention. Since...
I have a concrete floor and my wood is on reinforced pallets (slipped a 2x4 in the middle of every span to stop sag). Air movement at the bottom...
First, I will apologize for being a "numbers" person and for any math errors in my calculation, BUT... Your numbers indicate your average soot...
I harvest a lot of dead wood. Only 10% burns perfect, less than 20% moisture, white ash and/or white oak, never red oak. Another 20% will burn...
I consider heating with wood my "hobby". Some folks find time to go to the gym, an hour here and there... I like being outside and so spent the...
I cleaned my triple wall stainless chimney this week and got around a quart of soot and no glaze. I switched to August because the weather is...
Sorry, it is not the government... it's your neighbor: ethanol mandates and my favorite bio-diesel. Converting food to fuel is always a loser...
My understanding is "glazed" or hard creosote is the worst or most likely to ignite. Your picture color looks like "glazed" creosote and I prefer...
An online search will find the special handling hackberry requires to prevent milled wood from turning gray.
Curious, is your chimney interior or exterior? Mine is exterior and does back draft, CO, since the external chimney can cool rapidly. I normally...
Looks just like slippery elm. If so, I burn all I can get. Medium density and easy to light.
I am not trying to trouble-shoot the red oak or the low heat for anyone else's unit but here are other than moisture reasons when we get low heat...
My previous post from the "white oak versus red oak" thread: "My red oak theory: Observations: Wood slivers from splitting red oak are sharper...
My red oak theory: Observations: Wood slivers from splitting red oak are sharper than any other wood I split....
Red oak is a LOT wetter than white oak for both green and dead here and so white oak dries faster for me. Water transport through wood is along...
BP's large oil refinery in Whiting IN would also be near. Iowa propane prices were steady around $2/gallon +/- thanks to pipelines and...
Bitternut.
