The "How Much Have You Burned So Far" Thread

I've gone through about 1.5 cords if I had to guesstimate. I know I've gone through more than I should have at this point just learning the new stove. I'm looking forward to next year with better seasoned wood and knowing how to operate the stove better.

 

About 1 1/2 cords, ash ,maple, black locust

 

Maybe 2/3-1 cord. We've had warmer than normal, but colder than normal temps. I've been pulling from a couple different area and have lots of shorts/uglies.

 

Maybe 3/4 of a cord. It was colder than normal early in the season then it got warmer and wetter later. We shall see what the rest of the winter brings.

 

How deep does the frost go into the ground there? Or are we talking about permafrost?


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We have permafrost.

 

More than I planned. How is that answer?
Been burning pretty much continuously since mid Oct. I have gone through about 1 1/4 cords. Planned to be going into Jan having burnt only 3/4 of a cord.
I am getting the new stove dialed in finally. Hoping to go through wood at a slower rate the rest of the season.
I have about 1 1/2 cords to bring up to the house yet.

 

Close to 2 cord so far I’d guess. Burning in Rhode Island since late September. Easier to keep it going than mess with kindling IMO.

Need to move another cord in over the next few days. Looking like some colder temps after the new year.

 

Guessing about a 1 1/2 cord of box elder, but that stuff burns FAST! Working on about a face cord of ash right now. Been burning non stop since mid October.

Got to wheel barrel about 3/4 cord of ash out of the truck and trailer to the back of the house right now and it’s only 5 f out!

 

About a cord. Mostly pine, some elm shorts (I don’t know what kind of elm but it leaves more ash than anything else I’ve ever burned) and a touch of oak.

Weather has been crazy. Colder than usual then in the 60s and raining. Or cold and raining. Or snow. But mostly rain. Probably don’t need to be burning as much as I have been, but anything to chase away the gloom.

 

We had a colder than normal November with a warmer December. I have been burning mostly poplar with some maple mixed in, i would guess a cord.

 

Well I have been burning around the clock since late October, but like some here I'm also taking from the different wood shelters on my property. Some shelters I take from when its not too cold and I know they have poplar, cotton, or spalted and half rotted wood. Some piles I decide to pull from because they are in the most inconvenient locations on the property..What??? Yes, I take from the hard to get to stacks when the going is good. Once we enter permafrost season and are being buried in snow I take from the easy to get to stacks. I don't want to be shoveling a pathway thru the snow to a farther shelter because I used up the ones just off the back door.

To make calculations more complicated, much of what I burn is dry dead wood I scrounge during the burn season. So I try to save my sheltered wood banks for periods when I can't get out to scrounge or weather conditions are not optimal. Most times I collect a mixture of wet and dry wood and when I split it the dry gets burned immediately and the wet becomes the replacement wood for my emptied shelters to season for next year. It's a complex cycle, but necessary because I don't have the room on my property to hold more than 3 cords in my 6 shelters which are spread out on the premises.

*That all explained and out of the way I would say I burned a little over 1 cord and out of that less than 1/2 cord was removed from the "vaults".*



Above are 2 example of my shelters, depending on what the space allows, some I built only large enough for a face cord and my largest shelter not shown here holds a full cord

 

1.75 cord here since October.. Easy for me as I load the wood deck. All same wood. Poplar and ash this year.

 

I am bumping the 3 cord mark pretty hard. Mostly hickory, beech maple, and ash. Some random ironwood and cherry in there also.

 

We've only burned about a cord...mostly alder but a few stove-fulls of cherry and a couple pieces of black locust simply because I get excited to burn quality wood. However, it doesn't get very cold here and we have a well-insulated home so the need for locust doesn't happen very often.

 

BZOR Black Locust is plentiful here in the east where I am and grows along our many creeks and river edges, but it's no joke as far as what it puts out and I'm not talking about it's splinters haha! Here's a story I'll share about a Black Locust mishap I had last year. Let me just start by explaining I have a permanent injury to my right palm due to an accident 7 years ago. It has become a scar tissue disaster for me and nothing seems to comfort it except for soaking in a hot bath in order to get a few hours relief before the pain begins to return. Ok try not to visualize me enjoying a tubby while I explain what happened.

One night last year about this same Christmas season I wanted to enjoy one of my tub spa treatments, but that night I also wanted a little extra heat from the stove waiting for me when I got out the tub. I thought why not fill the fire box with black locust to make sure I get that warm welcome upon my return? Sounds like a plan and being efficient I got the bath water filling the tub while I loaded the stove with BL. To get things moving quickly I opened the draft liberally so the wood could catch and get rolling and I can then set it on cruise while I soak. meanwhile not to overfill the tub I ran upstairs to turn the water off and light my candles (just kidding) and planned on coming right back down to set stove to cruise. Well I forget what happened next, maybe a little mustache trimming or something took my mind off things thus I never came back downstairs to set the air valve before getting into the tub for my hot spa therapy.

I did my usual 30 minutes of soaking, maybe longer when after toweling off I realized I forgot to cut down the oxygen in the stove! I was very aware I had a Black Locust orgy going on in there that night so this was not a good time to be so absent minded! I then thought okay, don't worry, wife is downstairs and she would have adjusted things if she saw something wrong. Then again if this was the case she also would've yelled up to me calling me an idiot. Unfortunately this was one of the few times that didn't happen. So I ran downstairs hoping that maybe I just forgot I shut it down before. That's when I came across the crime scene.

My wife who loves heat and can also fall asleep faster than she can say "I'm gonna take a little nap" was passed out with our dog in front of what looked like the white hot sun was glaring out the stove glass. My secondary burn tubes which are rather robust on my stove were glowing bright orange-yellow and I noticed that two of my center tubes seemed to be showing a gap as they sagged away from the ceramic baffle (which was also glowing like I haven't seen before or since). My long shaft turkey thermometer I keep rigged to probe into the air exhaust vent was measuring 650 degree air blowing out into the room! The way the wood was well on it's way to becoming embers I could assume it was even hotter before I got to it. I was cursing my stupidity when my wife woke up saying she was really enjoying the heat and it beckoned her to sleep nearby on the couch never thinking I left the draft wide open. In the end I wound up with two warped tubes that still work fine for now and a charred baffle that was already 5 years old and getting brittle anyway so I got thru the rest of last year with it and bought a new baffle this year. As for B.L. I have renewed respect for it and even some healthy fear. Now if I know I can't be there to babysit it I only burn it mixed in with other wood to quell it's rage.

 

We have burned maybe a face cord of small oak rounds, some spalted oak splits and a couple 55 gal drums of shorts and uglies mixed in with some oak pallet boards. My mom has burned at least 1 1/2 cords of oak and hickory/pecan. She keeps a fire going...at 92 yrs old, she can burn all she wants. Our temps have been from 24° up to 70° yesterday.

 

You're a good son, T.Jeff Veal! You burnt
the uglies and pallets, and kept mom supplied with hickory and pecan!

 

It's easier for her to put long wood in the heater than shorts and uglies. She gets some of the spalted stuff too. She's good at burning it up...lol...she told me to bring it, she'd get rid of it....