12 1/2 cord & still burning. 8 months of below normal temps just like Chris F . May not have been as efficient with the boiler being my first year. Burned a lot of small splits that were made for the old furnace, but I don't much care. Warmest most comfortable winter ever in the shop & house. Saws have been running steady & I've got about 10 cord ready for next year so it'll be fine.
About 4 cords, between 4 and 500 gallons of propane, and between 2 and three hundred pounds of pellets. Propane furnace is still running occasionally.
I'll be installing a wood furnace downstairs for 19-20, and moving the pellet stove upstairs. Should change things around quite a bit.
I don't really know in terms of cords as I was moving wood from the old place as needed and I wasn't really keeping track, I guessing a little over 4 cords, 95% of which was spruce, the old place was 6-7 cords a winter. ~20 gallons of ash.
I don't measure in cord just face cords 4'x8' by 20" just a bit over 9 face cords so far. Have let thr fire go out twice and then we get more cold and rain. The wood furnace is the only heat we have. Kare wants a new NG furnace put in now that she thinks I am getting to old to be cutting and splitting wood. Deep down how ever she loves the nice 70F+ temps in the house all winter. Al
The furnace is probably a good investment. You can always buy firewood but NG might actually be cheaper where you are. But if you have a semi-paralyzing stroke tomorrow and she has to wipe your butt every day at home for the next 5 years do you want to watch her struggling with a wood supply to stay warm ?
She has alredy told me she won't wipe my butt or any thing else for that matter. Said I will live out the rest of my life in a dam home for old people. She can get a NG furnace then Al
She will more than be able to keep the house when she sticks me in the old folks prison. She best make sure I can't walk though, as I know where the spare key to the house is hid and where i keep my axe. I have low options of people who vow till death do we part. Al
And therein lies the problem with the 3 year plan (or more than 3 years). Whomever the next guy that comes along, (and chances are, there will be a next guy) will have free skating for that many years of a wood supply that we busted our ballz to css and had that very stroke that put us in the old folks internment camp...……
Right around 5 up the stack and still lighting one in the morning and another just before supper. I’ve limped through the season with a bad gasket that has cost atleast 1/2 cord.
Closing in on the three cord mark here. Still have a few sticks to rub together, have had a few fires lately, and have burnt about 20 gallons of fool oil this year as well. I'm pretty well set for 2019-2020, but need to get my butt in gear for the outer years. Repeat...
I burned not quite a cord of my old oak. Majority of our heat was axe wood. Probably close to 2 cords. It was actually kind of fun. Learned some new lessons on how to get the best burn out of this Have about 1/2 a cord to use for fire pit wood this summer.
Between 3 and 4 cords, I didn't stint on fires, I enjoyed the new luxury of having an oversupply of wood. 1 cord of crappy shoulder season wood, half a cord of birch, a cord plus of red oak, and a cord plus of red maple. Next year looks to be a mix of ash, birch, apple, black locust, red oak, and poplar/mixed maple for shoulder season.
About 2 cords here at home and 1 cord at our vacation home up north. We likely could still have a few more days of fires up north yet.
