About 3 cords with two stoves.. Well four of these racks. I figure each to be about 2/3 of a cord.. This below zero weather ate some wood last week..
Nice racks Climbing belt? Yours didn't fall down like someone we know LOL His initials are MasterMech
Good eye's, yes that's a climbing belt I bought just for pruning my 65 apple trees.. All my original gear is gone back when I did it full time... I found it much easier to get right into the tree, tie off and work the canopy... That way you can make good proper collar cuts on the branch wood. Looking up from the ground is hard on the neck after the while... Like the guy who taught me to climb when I was scared to death use to yell up,,"Get out there where the work is",,, oh how I can remember leaning all my weight into my climbing harness and walking out 15-20 feet on a limb 30-40 ft in the air ... I don't top my apple trees , trees grow from the top out, so I have to go up to keep things under control.. Kept the racks simple... That way I can keep track of what I burn... I rotate out sides per burning season.. My goal is to just bring pallets in the woods and my splitter, cut split and stack handling the wood one time.... Then when I need wood I have the set up to bring a pallet right onto my back entrance with my pallet forks on my tractor.. Back entrance has a sliding barn door onto the house so I can keep the wind and snow out.. We got the windows from an old cabinet at an antique shop...
I gone through just a bit over half a cord, maybe 3/4. We got a good freeze last week of fall, and have been in a heat wave last few weeks. high 60's days, mid 30's-low 40's nights. Have just been burning one load mid to late evening, no fire at all last few days.
Have used about a cord so far. Probably 2/3 of this winter's allocation is black locust, which almost keeps up to the extra cold season this year. Looks to be on track to run out in early/mid April.
Between 1.5 - 2 cords so far, heating with wood 100%. Mostly cherry plus a fair amount of pine & ailanthus. I've been able to stay out of the oak and locust for all but a couple of overnight burns. I'd say that the 3-year seasoned cherry is putting out as much heat as the oak that I bought for my first season that was standing dead and seemed very dry, but obviously could have used a little more time.
About 3 cords in two houses - propane furnace turned completely off since first of December. Sometimes I feel like I am cheating as I am currently burning a lot of fairy large rounds of hedge that has been cut for almost 20 years. A ten inch round 20 inches long along with a couple of split pieces of anything else I have will keep house toasty warm for over 12 hours so long as temp. stays in the teens or above. Lots of heat and very little smoke. May be hard to stay 20 years ahead with my wood cutting for the future.
I'm right around the 2 cord mark, probably at this point. Which is about half a cord more than usual.
Having BOTH the NZ3000 and the 1900p burning 'round the clock I'm at around 4 cord so far (burning since early October) and not ONE SINCLE CFM of gas used........ The beauty is that since October, I've harvested over 8 cord of white and red oak.....its split and ready to be stacked. Sooooo, in the grand scheme of things, I'm way ahead. A lot of what I've been burning was silver maple and and, lately mainly locust (since its been cold). The wood I'm burning now had been C/S/S for three and a half years, top covered, and is burning wonderfully!! The moral of the story is to get ahead early and do your best to replace what you use year to year. As we've been preaching for a long time now, try to get ahead 3 years as a rule, if you can. You'll be glad you did!
about 3/4 of a cord. i have about 5 weeks worth of wood left that i had allocated, so i may have to dip into next years supply (probably the sweet gum i helped someone out with last year.)
Maybe 3/4 cord to a cord?? Except for a week or so I have had a steady dire with 2 reloads a day since about Nov 9.
About 1 1/3 cord. A good share of it has been silver maple so it's been burning faster than if I had more hard wood. Next year I have more ash/elm ready instead of maple/ash mix.
