How much have you burned?

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We built our house with the wood burning furnace in mind. The firewood comes in through a 1/2 height door in an egress well with a chute installed that the firewood slides down.
The wood is stacked in this area right next to the Caddy. I pile about 4 1/2 cords down there, more than enough to heat the house for the full season.
Nice clean ,dry,, open basement loaded with wood love it.
 
I think I'm closer to 2.5 cords, and it's not as cold as usual. I haven't had the stove off since mid October, also have not had the furnace/gas/heat pump kick on since October.
I've burned about 2.5 cords but I've restocked about 1.5 cords of it. Pic from yesterday.
Those are some tall stacks. Do u use a mobile platform to stand on to stack them that high?
 
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Those are some tall stacks. Do u use a mobile platform to stand on to stack them that high?
Nothing fancy, whatever is around, sometimes a 5ft ladder.
Stacks are 9ftish on one end tapering down to under 8 on the other, I can just reach 8ft flat foot.
The interesting thing is how much the piles can shrink as they dry, sometimes almost a foot of vertical. And once every few years that shrinking will cause a topple over.
One day I'll figure an easy way to secure from the topple over using scrap off another project.
 
We built our house with the wood burning furnace in mind. The firewood comes in through a 1/2 height door in an egress well with a chute installed that the firewood slides down.
The wood is stacked in this area right next to the Caddy. I pile about 4 1/2 cords down there, more than enough to heat the house for the full season.
That is impressive.