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How much have you burned so far?

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  1. WeldrDave

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    X2. I've burnt "maybe" 20 splits, about 1/4 face cord or less. Once Grandma gets warm, she stays that way for hours.
     
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    We're still on our first cord, a mixed pile with pine, willow, oak, maple and even some black locust
     
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    Pretty cold is noting his house is a 100°+ difference from outside....
     
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    With our Hardy running off and on since the middle of Oct, probably about a cord and a half of mostly maple and some red oak. We keep the house and basement warm, plus we pull our domestic hot water off the stove during the heating season.

    The Hardy is pretty hungry when it comes to wood, but it doesn't take as much time to cut and split a cord for it. I'd call it a wash as for as total time spent cutting for my old indoor wood furnace at my old house and processing for the Hardy.
     
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  5. Rope

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    15 -20 give or take. 50B73959-DD5E-4EB7-BF1D-0EFADBEA99A1.png
     
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    100-160*+ is the normal, image how hard it would be to cool a house down say 40-50 degrees. Heating them is easy. When I lived in Az you should have seen my electric bill. And the house never felt cool inside was just less hot.
     
  7. Suburban wood snob

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    I prefer to heat ... Can't stand super hot weather. You can add a sweater when you are cold, but there's only so many layers you can lose when it's warm and really no one wants to see you walking around naked anyway
     
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  8. Rangerbait

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    Misfire
     
  9. Rangerbait

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    Dude...that's a 103* temp swing. Do you need some kind of decompression chamber between the outside and inside?
     
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  10. FatBoy85

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    Almost sounds like you had what they would call a medium heat, it was warm but not AC in a hotel cool.
     
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    No, you don’t always see an arctic entry on a house. You do see them in business’. We use the garage for that purpose if the door need to be open for a while. Like when we bring wood, grocery’s, kids, etc.
     
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    I had good A/c was a 10 ton unit, just saying when it’s 120* it’s hard to get to 70*. A single house is harder to cool most all rooms have at least one wall that’s a outside wall. Hotels have 5 inside walls that are cool per room. Next time your in a big hotel when it’s hot you will notice it cooler in the center of the building. That’s normally where they have the functions. Hotels also have the reflective windows compared to a house. What to you go in a house with just a swamp cooler. It’s water cooled air.
     
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    I’m probably at about 3/4 cord right now. 2 y.o. Ash. Got some 2 y.o. Oak and locust I’m excited about burning this year.
     
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    Hello, I think we haven’t met! Locust is treating me well along with a bit of oak. Not much of the oak though. Enjoy!:handshake:
     
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    I’ve been away for a while. Last winter I tried to add snow plowing to my side business of lawn care.

    Been burning for 3 or 4 years. Used less that 55 gal of Fuel oil in that time. We burn between 2-4 cords per winter through a cat stove and a small house. We peaked at about 10 cord at the peak, sitting in about 8 now, including what we’ll burn this year.
     
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    To much. Been burning since mid October. About 1/2 cord of what I considered shoulder wood and a little of the good stuff. Was figuring that the shoulder wood would take me through mid Dec. I need to bring up some of the Ash, CSS in Jan, from the barn,
     
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    Started loading up cord #3 into the garage after work today...got this far before I ran out of daylight.

    I'm getting almost dead-on 1 month/cord, burning 24x7. The heat pumps haven't come on once, and nowhere in the house has been much below 72 at any point.

    Forecasting 7 cords by the time I can shut 'er down for the season.

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    Haven't even burned a face cord yet. Temps dip to low 20's but rise to near 60 during the day. If my home were better insulated I'd burn nearly nothing at all.
     
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    it' single digits and I finished first cord today... 3 more on wood deck and 10 more out back:D
     
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  20. Warner

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    3 cord in a BK in West Virginia!? Thought they only burn like a cord a year.

    Kidding... your set up is sweet!
     
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