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nate379
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My brother's wife's uncle runs a dairy farm and heats everything with an outside boiler. House, garage, milk parlor and machine shed. He burns 80-100 cords a year.
Growing up my brother and I would haul in wood for people as work. (Haul it in from outside and cord it in the basement, or sometimes cut, split and cord it outside). Anyhow most people we worked for would burn 7-10 cords a year... this at the time where my folks would go though about 3.5-4 cords a year.
My Dad put all new windows, new siding with R Board underneath, etc and the last few years he has had a hard time to burn 3 cords even. He is switching to a coal stove next year (after close to 30 years of burning wood in the house just got sick and tired of it.. plus the homemade stove is pretty much worn out at this point) and is worried that he is going to have to haul a lot of wood out of the basement come spring.
Growing up my brother and I would haul in wood for people as work. (Haul it in from outside and cord it in the basement, or sometimes cut, split and cord it outside). Anyhow most people we worked for would burn 7-10 cords a year... this at the time where my folks would go though about 3.5-4 cords a year.
My Dad put all new windows, new siding with R Board underneath, etc and the last few years he has had a hard time to burn 3 cords even. He is switching to a coal stove next year (after close to 30 years of burning wood in the house just got sick and tired of it.. plus the homemade stove is pretty much worn out at this point) and is worried that he is going to have to haul a lot of wood out of the basement come spring.