stoveliker
Minister of Fire
Yes. I can easily track it now. I'm weary of the La Nina forecast (second half of the winter colder), so I've been fighting my fire urges at the start of this season
Got a shed built and filled this year, putting me 3 years ahead.
Next year I'll have 2 year old cherry, ash (3 year but 1 year in rounds), maple, and either 3 year old oak or (if I burn that this year) 1 year old pine (to be cut this afternoon). Scrounging gives variety.
The year after it'll be 3 year old white oak, red oak, and locust.... (tree company drop). The year after 4 year old red oak, and some less old softer woods (to be obtained, likely some pine and maple).
2-2.5 cords per year. So I have to be a bit judicious in burning. (Though I'm not sure I will burn through the oak, ash, sassafras, and pine, totaling 8 facecord of about 16-17" long splits, half of it oak, I have available for this year - making my wife "concerned"
as she wants the stacks gone from beside our home and on our driveway, "since I built a shed" in the back yard - but I'm not moving it, it'll be gone when it's burned. )Last year I limped by on 3 face cord. But I only used 2 weeks of oil (during a chimney problem right around christmas...). This year will be no oil, period. So I think with 2-2.5 cord I should be fine. I guess it's a bit milder here than in MA.
Back to the topic. As I said: oak and sassafras. But the only stuff in the glowing pile that's left from 12 hours ago seems to be the oak, predictably. Cruising at 70 F in the LR (I guess 80-is in the basement..)
And now I'm going to make a spreadsheet of wood, consumption, burn start date, total burn days/hours (keeping track of cat life). Wood burning nerd, I guess.
