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.
I carry one stick at a time by the long route to the basement near the furnace where I have 3-7 days of wood inventory depending on the...
Access to the interior rows is easier than the numbers would suggest. Dry ends for access to the interior rows are simply left, i.e. the entire...
I have a 30'x40' metal shed with two overhead doors at one end and one small window at the the other, both on the narrow dimension. I have six...
My understanding is moisture meters are unreliable above 30% moisture because somewhere above 30% "free moisture" is present and moisture meters...
-4 deg F this morning, a high of -2 deg, and -7 deg F 4 pm (cold enough to hear the trees cracking). Red oak, sugar maple, and white ash in the...
4 cords but we can reach 5 cords during the few winters with extended periods with single digit highs. 1100 sq ft raised ranch with a wood...
I like bitternut hickory but not shagbark. Shagbark is too heavy and tough to split. Bitternut splits well, has more heat than red oak and dries...
