I think I'm more prepared this year

[Bigcube]

Lot's of work this spring with a load of logs and a new wood shed. I've added about another stack and a half on the end of that. The end towards the driveway I filled with cookies and shorts from the logs, I'll work those into kindling soon.

Still have a bunch of shagbark hickory to split for next year. It seems a little buggy from the sawdust between the rounds. I'm going to stack it out side this fall and not move it into the shed until the spring

I hope I got it split soon enough for my finicky stove, I'm burning leftover from last year right now.

 

[Valhalla]

Real nice shed and storage area. Well done!

What is this about a "finicky stove?"

 

[Bigcube]

My old VC Vigilant would chew up about anything I threw at it, the new stove want's real dry wood or it won't burn at all. Not out of the norm for a newer stove but I wasn't prepared for it and every load I got last winter that was "seasoned" wasn't.

 

[Valhalla]

Yup, seasoned wood goes a long way to a nice burn, kind of like a good evening dinner.

So what is this new stove?

Sounds like more fun than a new wife!

 

[Bigcube]

New stove is a Quadra-fire Cumberland Gap. Not sure I agree with "more fun than a new wife" though...

 

[rdust]

That turned out really nice!

 

[Valhalla]

New stove is a Quadra-fire Cumberland Gap. Not sure I agree with "more fun than a new wife" though...

I meant as in getting to know her. Why the Quadra-fire Cumberland Gap seems like an excellent choice! I checked out their website.

It is a nice size, kinda like a VC Defiant with side door loading, but the other side. But, as you said it, really likes well seasoned wood. I guess all the latest stove combustion designs now rely on fuel to be at a low moisture level. My Encore NC is the same, as compared to my old early Defiant, a real smoke dragon, that would burn anything.

Enjoy your great new stove, as you get to know her better! And your good looking new woodshed addition too.

 

[SolarAndWood]

Your shed finished up sweet...the driveway access is great.

 

[gzecc]

You do nice work. What did that garage expansion finally cost?

 

[Bigcube]

Thanks guys for the nice comments. I'll be pulling wood from the yard side, not the driveway side. My truck and enclosed car trailer gets parked on the pad. I had the roof done, late in the summer, I didn't have the time to do it. The roof was $4k but that was the whole garage, the small pad on the back of the garage was $1k. The lumber for the shed was around $6-700. The guys that put in the concrete sank the posts in the ground for free. I still need to side the peak but might just leave it for now since the whole garage needs to be sided soon anyway. Still need to put new gutters up.

 

[gzecc]

BC, Why did you decide to put the 6x6's (?) in the ground and not on the slab?

 

[Bigcube]

The slab on the back is only a 4" pour. IMO It's much better to have the posts in the ground, they are over 42" down, well below the frost line. The big slab on the side is a 6" pour, my truck and trailer is a tank.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Looks good Bigcube.