Quanity of wood this season

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Woodsplitter67

Woodsplitter67

Minister of Fire
Jan 19, 2017
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Woolwich nj
Before we moved additional wood up to the house for the next couple of weeks or so. My son and i figured out how much wood we have used so far for the season. We took some measurements and figured out that so far we have burned .75 cord this year that would be from when we started burning in October to basically December 1st

Were thinking we may use a little more this year
So how much have you guys used so far.. rough guess is fine if you dont want to measure.
 
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We've burned 1.24 cord of shoulder season wood or 4 face cord of white pine and by the end of this week we'll have burned 0.62 cord of cherry or 2 face cord.

We also have a pellet stove but I'm not sure how many bags we've burned this year. Last year was very cold in Northern NY and we burned either 52 or 53 bags. We had the pellet stove before we bought the property we get our firewood from.
 
We’ve burned about 1/2 cord so far, we’ve been burning since mid October; way earlier than I expected to be burning! I have some pine that was recently cut that I’d love to be burning but it’s not ready yet. Been burning mainly ash, birch, and maple as that is what’s currently dry enough


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It's been a cold November so wood usage is up from the last few years. I've burned half a cord but have let the furnace run now and then.
 
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I've burned a bit less than 2.5 face cord so far. So almost 1 cull cord. I'll probably hit the 1 cord mark by the end of the month. Wood use has gone down a little bit since I got my attic insulation up to par.
 
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I think I'm somewhere between 3/4 and 1 cord of mostly white pine and a little red maple. Definitely feels like more than previous years.
 
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Woodsplitter67 said:
Before we moved additional wood up to the house for the next couple of weeks or so. My son and i figured out how much wood we have used so far for the season. We took some measurements and figured out that so far we have burned .75 cord this year that would be from when we started burning in October to basically December 1st

Were thinking we may use a little more this year
So how much have you guys used so far.. rough guess is fine if you dont want to measure.
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Hard to keep track, as we use the shoulder season to clean up the uglies, funkies, and shorts. It's not all we use, but has made up a significant part of the fuel burned so far, starting at beginning of October.
 
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Guessing . . . about half a cord . . . a guess since I have maybe a quarter cord left in the stack and at least that amount, if not a bit more, stacked on the porch.
 
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ED 3000 said:
Hard to keep track, as we use the shoulder season to clean up the uglies, funkies, and shorts. It's not all we use, but has made up a significant part of the fuel burned so far, starting at beginning of October.
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This is funny as i am the complete opposite.. i go for the ugly, and crotchety wood once we start getting in the thick of winter. Its the only time i can get rid of them. I will burn them on a weekends here and there. There big and burn slow, and oddly shaped. Pretty much is all oak. I'll put up a pic later
I feel i'v gone through a little more wood so far and it going to be colder the next 6 days
 
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Its been a cold November. I have gone through more than 1/2 cord of hardwood. I normally run my minsplit until mid December and not use the boiler but the temps have been cold enough I have run the boiler. I definitely need to ramp up cutting wood this winter and summer to keep on the two year season cycle.
 
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Woodsplitter67 said:
This is funny as i am the complete opposite.. i go for the ugly, and crotchety wood once we start getting in the thick of winter. Its the only time i can get rid of them. I will burn them on a weekends here and there. There big and burn slow, and oddly shaped. Pretty much is all oak. I'll put up a pic later
I feel i'v gone through a little more wood so far and it going to be colder the next 6 days
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Well, probably 90% of the off-wood has been tulip poplar from the center of the loafhausen. That's all burned and the outside rows burned or restacked next to the house.

We're starting to work through the better wood uglies, stuff that had been on top of the good stacks. Ash and oak, mostly, with a little walnut. A constant stream of tulip poplar as well.

Next, we have a stack from a big black birch that is pretty punky and fungus-y. It was from the neighbors.
 
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Woodsplitter67 said:
This is funny as i am the complete opposite.. i go for the ugly, and crotchety wood once we start getting in the thick of winter. Its the only time i can get rid of them. I will burn them on a weekends here and there. There big and burn slow, and oddly shaped. Pretty much is all oak. I'll put up a pic later
I feel i'v gone through a little more wood so far and it going to be colder the next 6 days
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I'm the opposite of both if you, I burn that stuff in the spring shoulder season, keep the nice fat, straight stuff for midwinter.
 
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.75 cord as well (along with 200 lbs of sawdust)

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weatherguy said:
I'm the opposite of both if you, I burn that stuff in the spring shoulder season, keep the nice fat, straight stuff for midwinter.
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I use the uglies when im home during the day. It hasent been cold enough to burn during the day.. today was the first day i could burn when i got home.. i threw in some Walnut Uglies
 
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TedyOH said:
.75 cord as well (along with 200 lbs of sawdust)

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Dude your sooo on track.. lets throw a bunch of scrap and garbage wood in our stoves and then Jam a bunch of instruments in the flu to see if we can get it to burn correctly by tuning it even though there is nothing for adjustments on the stove
 
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Jan Pijpelink said:
It depends if the sawdust was form softwoods or hardwoods. If it was from Pine: stomach cramps!
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Good point, Jan!

Just walking by my little stand of white pine gave me diarrhea last week. Or, maybe it was that romaine lettuce that I picked up on a great sale at the Food Lion.
 
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