Nice post wordsmith, welcome to Alaska. I live in North Pole and installed a bk king last winter. I absolutely love it. I lit it october 22 and will keep it going until I need to clean it. Itnisna science to burn cats. It is also an art. I load it one in the morning and then at night. It cut our oil bill in half the first season but this year I have lots of wood so I am heating hotter. Again welcome to Alaska!
My Fall to Darkness - and the new Blaze King
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hotprinter said:
Wow! You guys are the "real" thing, living is Alaska... North Pole... WOW! Keep warm. How many cords of wood do you expect to burn this winter?
Those guys up there are a breed of their own.
It hits -20* here and no one wants to go outside. Up there it's -20* and they are in flip flops, shorts and T Shirts.... "damn it's warm". Yeah I'd say that too if just a couple days before the thermometer even froze!
It hits -20* here and no one wants to go outside. Up there it's -20* and they are in flip flops, shorts and T Shirts.... "damn it's warm". Yeah I'd say that too if just a couple days before the thermometer even froze!
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I am officially impressed now, this morning at 6:30am I loaded up the stove and went to work an hour later, I set the stove one dot before the low setting. I came home at 7:00pm , at 7:30 I went to the stove to open the door to put more wood hoping there would be enough ambers. Well, I was pleasantly surprised and shocked to see MANY large pieces of charred wood left, the stove was still in the "active" zone! It is 9:40pm now and the stove is still putting out some good heat. WOW, very impressed and pleased.
bsj425
Burning Hunk
bogydave said:
We cut wood on the borough lands it is far cheaper for the cutting permit than the state lands. It is only 5 bucks a cord with a 20 cord max per year and that is pretty much on the honor system. You can also get permits for FREE from the army and air force base for cutting on military land.
bsj425
Burning Hunk
bogydave
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bsj425 said:
I thought $10/cord was good,
, $5/cord is better, FREE/cord is best :lol:
Good to know,I have a relatives there, I'll pass that on.
Good things are, with the price of gasoline the closest one to you will be the best & you have several cutting areas.
We have 2, one in Willow & one just North of Palmer. For me, Willow is $45 round trip, Palmer about $15. So $25/cord of birch is best I can do here. Palmer area, the easy stuff is gone, so I've been skidding it to the trailer/truck to get it. More work, but fun work.
I do like FREE fire wood, just how much Free costs, varies.
How much wood do you have stored up?
Is most of the wood in the cutting areas birch?
Easy access into the areas & close to the wood?
Might be free or really cheap, but my time isn't. If I can spend a bit for wood and only 20hrs splitting or stacking it vs 40hrs to cut, haul, stack, etc that means I have more time for other things.
I don't mind cutting a truck load or so just for S&G, but to do a year or twos worth I would not be able to do it with the shape my back is in. Dr says my back is about same shape as avg 70 yr old man and I'm 28.
I don't mind cutting a truck load or so just for S&G, but to do a year or twos worth I would not be able to do it with the shape my back is in. Dr says my back is about same shape as avg 70 yr old man and I'm 28.
bsj425
Burning Hunk
bogydave said:bsj425 said:
I thought $10/cord was good,
, $5/cord is better, FREE/cord is best :lol:
Good to know,I have a relatives there, I'll pass that on.
Good things are, with the price of gasoline the closest one to you will be the best & you have several cutting areas.
We have 2, one in Willow & one just North of Palmer. For me, Willow is $45 round trip, Palmer about $15. So $25/cord of birch is best I can do here. Palmer area, the easy stuff is gone, so I've been skidding it to the trailer/truck to get it. More work, but fun work.
I do like FREE fire wood, just how much Free costs, varies.
How much wood do you have stored up?
I have about 10 cord now with about 4 or 5 of it c/s/s the rest is in log/round form
Is most of the wood in the cutting areas birch?
mostly birch with some stands of spruce by the rivers
Easy access into the areas & close to the wood?
Insanely easy can fit fullsize truck + 12ft trailer right next to the wood. The place I get most of mine BLM cut a fire barrier this summer so there are literally thousands of trees down and limbed in nice stacks about every 200 yards for about 12 miles long. I have been making about 2-3 trips a month all summer to there getting just over a cord each time and still havent made a dent in the first stack. Just cut to length throw on trailer come home split and stack no felling trees no limbing nothing there is easily 100+cord down there in nice stacks.
So the points Nate made are kind of moot here 1/2 the work is already done last Saturday I went out got 2 cord came home split and stacked and was done in under 4.5 hours with one person helping. If I had to fell trees and limb and all that I wouldnt have nearly as much. Ill snap some pics next weekend.
bogydave
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OH Man!
Is it "FREE" ?
You are spoiled. ::
"thousands of trees down and limbed in nice stacks about every 200 yards for about 12 miles long."
"Just cut to length throw on trailer come home split and stack no felling trees no liming"
Got into that good of cutting once (pile of cottonwood, birch spruce), most was cottonwood, but I got all the birch & spruce out of the pile I could get.
With that kind of easy fire wood, you'll have 3 + years stored up in no time.
If it wasn't 350 miles, I'd join you.
Good for you. You do miss out on the fun of falling a tree & landing it right where you aim. LOL :lol:
No such thing as "easy fire wood" some is just easier, it's all work.
I'm kinda nuts, & think it's "fun work" though. (at least "rewarding work" )
Good job!
Is it "FREE" ?
You are spoiled.
::"thousands of trees down and limbed in nice stacks about every 200 yards for about 12 miles long."
"Just cut to length throw on trailer come home split and stack no felling trees no liming"
Got into that good of cutting once (pile of cottonwood, birch spruce), most was cottonwood, but I got all the birch & spruce out of the pile I could get.
With that kind of easy fire wood, you'll have 3 + years stored up in no time.
If it wasn't 350 miles, I'd join you.
Good for you. You do miss out on the fun of falling a tree & landing it right where you aim. LOL :lol:
No such thing as "easy fire wood" some is just easier, it's all work.
I'm kinda nuts, & think it's "fun work" though. (at least "rewarding work" )
Good job!
greythorn3
Minister of Fire
No, but she will win "Miss Congeniality" and most likely to succeed, in heating your house that is !
Good idea to take it easy on that back. Long term back problems can really bring you down.
weatherguy
Minister of Fire
I know, its a beautiful thing, when I get up in the morning I dont have to worry about loading the stove and get it going for heat, I just turn the tstat up to get more heat from the remaining wood, loading it doesn thappen til noon time if not later.
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