Started burning probably mid October and now we are burning most days/nights. Definitely slowing down I am at 14 face cords burned so far
I just went back 110 pages in the "what ya burnin" thread to find out when my first fire this season was. October 10th. It's been 6 long months of running the stove now. Today I loaded the stove twice with junk scraps before letting it go out by late morning. I'll have another fire tomorrow morning, then maybe a couple more up until Sunday. Then I'll be in Florida until the 18th. After that, chances for running the stove drop significantly, but I won't rule it out completely between now and mid May. I still have enough wood stacked indoors for another week's worth of morning fires, which might be enough to close out the season with. We'll see.
Gritzers can be any miscellaneous shrapnel. In the caseof firewood, gritzers are the weird splits, cutoffs, and other unstackable chunks.
Started in November and would guess in the 3-cord range. More locust & oak then I can remember. On the plus side, furnace has been off for the past couple of months.
I call them things I can't say because I can't get political, but how about (They just don't fit anywhere and are not NORMAL)....
We’re in the 6 cord camp this year, still having morning and evening fires. When it was -15 to -20 in January we went through 2/3 of a cord in 5 days. Had all three wood stoves cranking, and the house was in the 70’s. Also sent another cord to the in-laws two weeks ago as they were out of wood. They were going to burn oil for the rest of the spring, but decided to get more wood. They have decided to go back to 4 cord a year instead of 2-3 cord.
Somewhere between a cord or cord and a half. Mostly junkier wood, Beech and Black Birch that had been left in log form too long. Didn’t bring enough in the basement in the fall and with all the snow I wasn’t willing to dig out the piles. By the time it melted I still couldn’t drive in. Made some bundle wood in the basement too so some got sold off. Had the furnace running in the background all winter, still going, still on the first tank of oil so not bad.
I'm probably a little more than typical usage this year. I had a lot of box elder this year, so that might have made it seem a little more wood was used. That wood just isn't the longest burning wood. But that box elder was close, from a neighbor, and I got I think 2.5-3 cords of wood from their yard. There was 1 decent ash, like 14-16" dbh and a choke cherry, but most was BE. We're on limited burning hours now. Any day it doesn't drop below 50, I don't even light it up. This am I reloaded but not at lunch time. I'll relight tonight and for Saturday, but Sunday through Friday next week looks like no fire until Friday evening maybe. I've got about a face cord on the patio of ash and pine. That will get burnt this year, but probably not the remaining cord in the wood shed from this years allocation.
