Well... I'm getting close to my emergency supply in the shed

I feel your pain Matt. I have about two face cords of dried wood left too. However I just switched to a coal stove for the house I bought 500 pounds of bagged coal when I bought the stove but used 350 pounds of that in two weeks. I had to make the 160 mile round trip again last weekend to get 800 pounds more. That should last until it gets warm enough to just make a wood fire evenings to take the chill off (I hope).

I have to get a coal bin built in the garage so I can get a bulk delivery of 4 tons for next winter.

Why don't you want to use the maple and willow? How many cords do you burn in a winter?

In the grand sceem of things you are practically my neighbor (Chaumont, NY), so HOWDY NEIGHBOR :exclaim:

The emergency supply was exhausted this week. Ive started burning the shed this evening.

LOL :lol:

I know what you mean...I am running low too. I have been burning scraps and ends from the piles. And me ,with 5 cords of freshly split red oak. And I'll tell you what. I bet the winter of 08 is going to be a COLD one. We here in Maryland have been getting off easy for too long

I am just about out of the seasoned stuff, next year I will have plenty. I bet I will have to burn unseasoned...... :shut: I also bet it will cold enough to burn here until end of April. Ouch

I have about 4 cords left, I'm good to go Getting another 10-12 cord of cuts delivered in the next couple months. I prolly have 10 or so in fallen & dead standing laying on the property, and more on the neighbors I am welcome to. Just don't have the time to get to it.

everyone ive talked too has burned up more wood than they figured. its been a long cold one.

Rockey said:

The emergency supply was exhausted this week. Ive started burning the shed this evening.

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NNNnnnoooooooo! Not the shed! Surely you can find something else!

I know; stop calling me Shirley! :lol:

I'm burning the heat pump right now, as the wood for next year isn't quite ready yet and it's hitting 60 degrees in the good 'ol Mid Atlantic. Things are starting to bud here. Hang in there, guys!

That red oak flooring I pulled out of the bedroom last weekend is starting to look attractive, though...

Chris

Hanko said:

everyone ive talked too has burned up more wood than they figured. its been a long cold one.

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I want my as advertised Global Warming.

I'm estimating another 4 days worth of supply here before we start eating into the "Strategic Wood Reserve," which I store underground in a large salt mine in the back 40. Generally, we only use the Strategic Wood Reserve in times of Home Emergency, however it can sometimes be tapped when the global wood market demands prices that, in the view of our household government, are artificially inflated by foreign wood producers for purely political purposes.

-- Mike

The big battle is the mental mindset "To Burn" right now.
We are just having night fires right now.
I have plenty-O-wood, but low on kindling.
It is just so dang hard to get fired up bout burning.
The cats have a cat-house made out of kindling and we have been taking pieces out of that to start the fires.
Poor kitty's.

At this point in the year, I figured we would be at once or twice a day at most. But the rain and 40 mph winds we've been getting are dictating more heat. Still dipping below freezing at night and that are calling for snow overnight. It sure didn't seem that cold this year, but I guess it started early and went longer because we've gone thru all our main supply. Luckily we have plenty of oak that's been down for 5+ years, just not bucked and split yet. I've been harvesting the oak and it's beautiful stuff. I've been getting bits at a time figuring it would last a week, but then the cold and wind kicks up and we go thru it in 2 days. I'm gonna bit the bullet this evening and haul up a face cord's worth.

I should be ok. Still have a cord on the patio and another 2 face cord on the pallets.

I am jealous...you guys all talk about how much you have in "emergency" wood. I just put my insert in about mid winter and had no wood at all. So far I have been dropping standing dead trees and burning oak pallets.

But I do have my eyes on about 6 or 7 trees in my yard for next winter that will be dropped soon. Along with a huge oak tree that my bro-in-law is having dropped this spring.

Wife & I are both retired, just moved here to Central Oregon last August. We've had wood stoves before, but this has been our first winter to heat exclusively with wood. Got an electric forced air furnace, but haven't turned it on but a very few times. I've got a woostove in my workshop where I spend most days, so I'm burning two stoves pretty much all day every day, and the Lopi in the house late into the evenings. I've burned about 6 1/2 cords of softwood so far...and this morning there was about an inch of new snow on the ground, so it ain't over yet. Still into the 20's overnight, and 40's daytime. I'd have burned my last split in about two weeks, I'm guestimating...but one of my trusted wood suppliers brought me a cord and a half of the same wood I got from him last fall. That'll get us through, and a bit of a start on next year. Gonna put up a sizeable (12' x 16') woodshed this spring that'll accomodate nearly 8 cords. That filled, plus 2 1/2 or 3 under a porch roof off the shop oughta put my mind at ease going into next winter. It's been interesting. Rick

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p.s. Mike - I think you been hit'n the political scene a little too hard. Welcome back to the wild world of wood and grab a cold one and relax for a piece.

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Yeah yeah... Hey, I live in a world of cold ones! :coolsmile:

-- Mike

Down to about 1 full cord seasoned, three in the "strategic reserve". Once I get the bed put back on the truck after some Appalachain frame repair, will be hitting it hard again. To be safe, I want at least a total of 9 cords in the shed...

by the way, all of you guys and girls running low can always hit the local carry-out/gas station and pick up a "bundle" for $5 (I think I saw a label on one of those that said 1/276 of a cord). At that price, it's a mere $1380/cord.

by the way, all of you guys and girls running low can always hit the local carry-out/gas station and pick up a “bundle” for $5 (I think I saw a label on one of those that said 1/276 of a cord). At that price, it’s a mere $1380/cord.

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Makes you want to get into the firewood business doesn't it. I could sell my wood, then crank up the thermostat and still make money.
I've burned about 4 cords myself. Still have a couple face cords left. There is always my bbq smokin' wood, but I'd rather use that for tasty vittles than heat.

We are now down to burning cedar slabs (got 5 cords of that stuff under tarps). Woodsheds are full with split fir for next winter,and not touching that anymore this spring. Temps here hovering around 38 nitetime and mid 40`s daytime. Will go thru a lot of that cedar the next 4 days because the wife has a long,long weekend off work.

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Heck, were supposed to get 4 to 6" of the white stuff again today. Plenty of wood, just tired of burning. I have a strategic stash of about 7 cords seasoned, another 4 split and stacked and about 8 more taunting me to get the saw and splitter out. So somewhere around 18 or 19 on the property in total (yes, that is 4x4x8). I want my global warming. (Eric - I'm catchin' up buddy)

p.s. Mike - I think you been hit'n the political scene a little too hard. Welcome back to the wild world of wood and grab a cold one and relax for a piece.

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That six inches has already fallen to the north of you and is still coming down. I've got plenty of wood in reserve
for this year, but I'm getting tired of hauling it to the house from my land via the VW Golf TDI. It was almost
possible to get my truck out from where it was buried in the snow when today's gift from Mother Nature arrived.
Supposed to hit 40's again by mid-week so it shouldn't be around long this time.

Isle Royale in cruise mode at 600. Good afternoon to nap in front of the basketball games.