how long can u go????

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Ken S said:
I lost already,wife kicked on the furnace already since my exhaust pipe is not hooked up,shewants it unhooked in the summer so the stove can be pushed back out of the way.Last year it was Christmas day I let it go out so I could clean the pipe from the stove into the chimney and the chimney itself,other than that it only ran 4 other times on particularly cold days.I burn a lot of box elder,popler etc in shoulder season and a lot of beech in the cold part of the year

Hey there Ken, I have never had any beech to burn before. How well does that season and how hot and long does it burn? (compared to harder wood)
 
Beech is great.Seasons in a year,I have most of my wood stacked in an old cow pasture at my parents place on a hill so lots of wind and sun.I can get an all nighht burn no problem,produces so many coals that the next morning I need to burn them down so I burn soft maple for awhile in the morning.I don't seem to get any oak on my scrounges and none in my parents woodlot so I can't compare to that but I would say I like it better for dead of winter than anything else I have access to which is elm,black birch,hard maple.2 winters ago I burned a lot of standing dead beech,last year it was seasoned 1 year and this year will be seasoned 2 years,my business was slow a couple years ago so I cut split and stacked 60 truck loads mostly beech at my parents house to keep busy and it is paying off now
 
Ken S said:
Beech is great.Seasons in a year,I have most of my wood stacked in an old cow pasture at my parents place on a hill so lots of wind and sun.I can get an all nighht burn no problem,produces so many coals that the next morning I need to burn them down so I burn soft maple for awhile in the morning.I don't seem to get any oak on my scrounges and none in my parents woodlot so I can't compare to that but I would say I like it better for dead of winter than anything else I have access to which is elm,black birch,hard maple.2 winters ago I burned a lot of standing dead beech,last year it was seasoned 1 year and this year will be seasoned 2 years,my business was slow a couple years ago so I cut split and stacked 60 truck loads mostly beech at my parents house to keep busy and it is paying off now

almost sounds like you could have gone into the wood business when things got slow. Thanks for the info on the beech
 
Still trying to figure out which switch operates the heat. lol Sure im in. But dont laugh about where im at our houses are insulated accordingly but i am planning to work on that.
 
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