i cut all my wood too small this year :(

huh?????

With wood only....
Better to short than to long.
Eric

Stevebass4 said:

burning now and i just realized that i cut all my wood about 6 inches too small this year...

and it still burns

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Does it stop burning at 7" too short????? :-/

I like the mismatched pieces, better stacking for air spaces in the stove, and wood pile (can make it a bit shakey but...), or the small pieces can fill in the spaces for the night time fill. yup, and better than too long

You hate wood?.....so posting on this forum is part of your 12 step program?Keep your mouth closed when you pass out in the sawdust piles,or,pass out in a woodpile instead.

Cut it a foot longer next year. That will make up for the 6" you were short this year.

Stevebass4 said:

I try to be careful with my saw but i guess ANY cut first or last (guess it's always the last ) i could lose something but i wear all the PPE and i do my best to be safe when i'm working with my saw.. she's a new husky 272xp new to me BUT never used when i found her :D

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Ha - there has to be a good statistic lurking here somewhere. Something like "99% of people injured with a chainsaw received their injury during the last cut of the day" So, really, you just have to watch out for the last cut and you'll be fine!

Corey

I like having different size pieces of wood, when I start a fire I use the smaller stuff, and then start to shovel on the bigger stuff. On shoulder days a few smaller pieces is all you need.

Our old insert, a Quad 2100i, you could load it up longitudinally.
The pieces couldn't roll out and you could get more in there.
This might be a good time to try it on yours.

Better too short than long. Last couple years I did the cutting/splitting for an open firplace. This year I put the insert in and much of it is too long. I hate trying to shoehorn them in there, especially when it's hot. Give me a bundle of small stuff so I can toss them in there any ole way!! Besides you get a brighter flame with the smaller pieces.

yup, my Olympic actually burns better loading N/S rather than E/W...Now I do the "lincoln log" style and it works well for me.. everyone has their own ways, its funny

hfjeff said:

Better too short than long. Last couple years I did the cutting/splitting for an open firplace. This year I put the insert in and much of it is too long. I hate trying to shoehorn them in there, especially when it's hot. Give me a bundle of small stuff so I can toss them in there any ole way!! Besides you get a brighter flame with the smaller pieces.

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Yeah, also nothing worse than realizing that the coal build-up reduces what I can put in. Log doesn't fit, it's already on fire, and I have to do a quick physics lesson in my head to figure it out fast! Plus, I risk hitting the ceramic baffle up top on my Tribute.

Wow, now that is a coincidence!
You know, they discontinued that model, so treat it nice.

This is kind of off thread but I work with a guy who is 73 and grew up dirt poor. They had an open fireplace in their house as the only source of heat. On the too long or too short part, he said that he would go out to the railroad tracks with his dad and they would bring home old ties to burn in the fireplace. He said they would stick out a couple of feet while thwy were burning and they would stick a pot under the end to catch the creosote that dripped off. Everybody in his family of 13 lived into their late eighties and mid-nineties. He also said that they never cleaned their chimney and they used it year round.