In weather like it is now (mid 20°s) I'm burning about 8-10 hand sized ash & silver maple splits in a day.
As said... lots of variables to this question. With average winter temperatures, average split sizes and decent hardwood, I use between 15 - 20 in 24 hours. During shoulder season when I let the fire burn down during the day without reloading until late afternoon or evening, about 10 - 12/ day. I probably average about 15/ day during the entire season if I count shoulder seasons and a few days when I don't burn.
On average I would say 12 large( 12-14 inch diameter) or 30 small ( 6 inch minus). All 22 inch in length.
I might just try that for S&G's just to see what my little wood reactor is burning in a day. You guys will be the first to know.
since i just learned that some folks weigh the wood burned, i am curious if they weigh the ash after it is burned to see the difference.
Wow! I think some of us need to get a second and third hobby, we've got too much time on our hands if we're sitting around thinking this up!!
Then you need to brush the creosote out of the pipe, and average into the previous burns ... it is all so complicated. And to think it all started with a chainsaw.
This year I started with 238.07 cu ft which also includes about 25 cu ft of kindling. Started burning in mid September and continued with just nightly burns for at least another month or so. For a while I was averaging just under 1/2 cu ft per day. But that has changed with the colder weather setting in with lows of 5 degrees and highs of maybe 30 degrees. I currently have 106.40 cu ft of firewood left which includes about 8 cu ft of kindling. So with 149 days of heating, using 131.67 cu ft of wood, I'm burning on average about .89 cu ft per day. Winter is almost over, or so says that fat groundhog that predicts how many more weeks of winter we will have, so I'm already looking at the various seeds and things I'll need for springs return.
Hey you started it!All I know is I'm burning a heck of a lot right now as it is -1 F out. I'm to busy carrying it in and loading it to be counting it and weighing it. That sounds like more work!
thats the most accurate way to do it. i am ~60#'s/load. normally two loads per day. when its less than 10* wind chill i need 3 loads. 3cuft firebox in boiler. 2500sqft house on top of mountain plus 300sqft boiler shop in barn.
Well to be fair to these guy's, there is a method to their madness. They are burning in a wood boiler and charging their (water) storage tanks. They know that there is aprox. XXXX btu's in a pound of wood, ( iirc it's like 6500) they know that they have XXX gallons ( generally 500g to 1000g!) at XXX deg. and it takes XXX pounds of wood to raise the water temps to their target, I think usually about 180*. This storage can allow them to draw off of that for at least 24 hrs. and often can be day's. They're running some type of radiant system. Water is about the best way of "storing" heat energy. I think it's a personal challenge for ultimate eficiency for them. Not a bad thing if you have nothing else to do. At least that's the way I understand it, but I'll stick to my wife's clothing choice to decide when to stop throwing splits on the fire.
