I don't hang out here much in the summer but do spend my winters here I guess you can call me a snow bird. But ladies and gents its getting time to make sure everything is tip top. Stacks swept, seals good to go and stoves clean. Looking forward to spending another winter season here with you guys.
3rd annual its getting close thread.
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Our burning season can start on September 15, last year I'm pretty sure we started burning later, September 25. When do you usually start heating with firewood?
I picked up a used jotul f100 on FB marketplace over the summer that I'm going to try swapping in for the VC intrepid. The intrepid is fine it was just a little too melodramatic for me to deal with on weeknights. Still need to get around to touching up a couple rust spots on the f100 and hook it up for a test fire.
Yup! same here. I enjoy summer but there's just something lovely about a wood fire.
I generally have my wood box full and my break-in fires completed mid-Sept.
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I generally have my wood box full and my break-in fires completed mid-Sept.
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Me I’m weed whacking around the pile I’ll use this winter and maybe next! Getting ready to scrounge too for three years from now !!
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Do you plan on top covering anytime soon? It’s a good idea as one good rainstorm can have the middle of that pile soaked.
Wisco Shepherd
Minister of Fire
Thats a cool looking spinner you have, do you hand spin? We have a small flock of Cheviots.
Investment Camper
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Yes I do I’m going to use some tyvek left over from our addition. I’ll send pictures after
Yup. I do spin. I give you credit for having your flock...after 'thoughtful consideration' of having a few sheep of my own, I decided that buying a few fleeces from a shepherd is much more economical! LOL
Wisco Shepherd
Minister of Fire
We kind of got into it backwards started with some Border Collies got into sheepdog trials and wanted to be able to train on our property.
I love to watch those puppers work!! absolutely amazing! (and that's a perfectly acceptable excuse to buy sheep! LOL!)
We can start as early as early October. But normally around the end of October. Normally have our first fire by Halloween.
The focus those dogs have is incredible.
The one laying down looks like a regular tri color collie?
We had 3 collies growing up. Great dogs.
The one laying down looks like a regular tri color collie?
We had 3 collies growing up. Great dogs.
I was a 4h kid showing a our sable collie for many years. At the fair, those wool spinners told us that they could spin long dog hair like from my collie into yarn.
Do the stacks stay on the ground while seasoning? The bottom wood would be useless here after a year of ground contact.
Also limits wind direction for airflow around the splits. I’d imagine it may season slower?
My thoughts as well, but the wall could make a nice structure to build a solar kiln against if it's facing south.
Investment Camper
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Yes to all. Backstop made stacking easy. The southerly facing is good. This is already seasoned wood that burns great and it was necessary spot I don’t have space and do have HOA that made me move it. Nice to have a farmer friend with 100 acres! This is my pile in the back yard I could keep where it was
Do you have a moisture meter?
ReSplit 2 from the bottom row and 2 from a middle or top row, and measure them on the freshly exposed surface.
It'll tell you that you need to stack them off the ground because then the bottom row(s) will measure similar to the middle and top rows...
ReSplit 2 from the bottom row and 2 from a middle or top row, and measure them on the freshly exposed surface.
It'll tell you that you need to stack them off the ground because then the bottom row(s) will measure similar to the middle and top rows...
Wisco Shepherd
Minister of Fire
Yes that's Bob. He's a half brother to the smooth coated Tri on the right they are my main work dog. Young dog in the middle is named Lad.
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