One days burn

Beins it's been chilly here lately. I thot I'de take a pic of how much wood I burn in 24 hours. MS 251 with 18" bar for comparison purposes.

 

Two sleds worth a day?

 

Thanks Cold Trigger Finger , I was wondering how much you burned with those temps you have up there every night.

 

Nice to see another burns poplar and some sort of pine tree.I will guess that about all that grows way up there?

 

I love that little sled, CT Finger!

I burn about 8-10 splits in each load. Each reload burns about 8-12 hours. I figure I burn about 1 split per hour, or 24 splits per day. Or a cord in 5-6 weeks.

There was absolutely no science in my math.
All estimated averages, of coarse.

 

Just 1 sled load per day if the wind isn't blowing and the temperature is 30 below and warmer. All poplar last longer than mixed with spruce.
I took a couple pics to show the size of wood and saw better.
I did get most of the cabin banked with snow good which Really warmed it up in here and reduced our wood usage by 1 huge armload per day.

 

I guess the 2 pics are a bit misleading, sorry I didn't think about that.
Depending on the ashes in the stove . I can put about 4 pieces of wood in at a time. At 30 below, running the draft somewhat open I'll get 3 1/2 hours on that with it putting out good heat. At night I cork it down and get a full 8 hours. The Toyo helps take up the slack by morning

 

In other parts of the Interior there is lots of birch . I is better firewood than poplar or spruce. We have very little birch close to where I live. So I burn mostly poplar as I like how it makes coals better than white spruce and somewhat better than black spruce. . I also burn cottonwood when I come on it where I'm getting firewood.
Poplar is nice because it's easy cutting and processing beings it doesn't have lots of limbs. And it splits relatively easy.

 

Stacks almost as easily as Legos too.

 

I have never burnt much poplar but have about 2 cords ready to process so I will be burning some in the future.

 

I've only burned poplar once recently and I'm guessing it's a fairly crappy version of the poplar that grows north of the border.
And I let it season a second year. Big tooth Aspen actually which is supposed to have a bit more BTU than the brown bark poplar we also have.

 

Aspen and poplar are in the same family. On the small diameter stuff I run a kerf thru the bark and stack it need up. On the splits, I stack bark down split up. It dries nice that way. The wood is porous but the bark is waterproof.

 

I only kept anything big enough to split. Actually I think the one I cut down was one of the first victims of the gypsy moth outbreak we had here for about 5 years. Hoping it's 'had' as I see no egg masses this year. But we still have Winter moths. Poor trees can't catch a break.

 

I think Aspen and poplar are kinda about the same coast to coast.

 

I learned a new term from you Sir (Banked) I was wondering if anyone else did that with as much snow as can get around the house. I had mine over 4' high all around there during Christmas when those temps were nasty but then it happened again rain and mild for 3-4 days Grrrrrr. but once again 3 sides over 4' high and keeping fingers crossed not much rain in the future. Again thank you.

 

The stuff I call pople/poplar here is very similar to the poplar we logged in Maine. Which is very similar to Aspen .
But, I know there are lots of different tree sub species that have the same or similar names.
Like the difference between alpine hemlock and western hemlock.
They are both hemlock but Alpine isn't nearly as strong as western for lumber.

 

This is one days burning for us, it sits on the back sun porch, so my wife only needs slippers to feed the stove