Went to the "Good wood"

[bogydave]

Shoulder season was short. Spruce wasn't quite keeping up & only getting 8 -10 hour burn times.
I brought in a load of 2-1/2 yr seasoned birch, What a difference!
An all night burn, with the house at 71° (OAT 14° ) this AM & still lots of wood in the stove.

Amazes me how much better some wood is for heat & long burn times.
Can't imagine what hickory, locust or oak must be like. Youns with super high BTU wood are lucky.
Would need to have allot less wood per year.

Learning curve for burning birch: when loading, have the wood next to the stove ready to load fast
Had a raging fire in 30 seconds.

 

[BrowningBAR]

Reading weather reports from Alaska members is like reading New York city real estate listings to cheer me up when I was looking to buy a home locally. No matter how bad I thought it was here, some poor bastard has it a lot worse than me.

Your single digit temps in October is the equivalent of seeing a NYC 800 sq ft apartment listed at $900k.

 

[rideau]

Shoulder season was short. Spruce wasn't quite keeping up & only getting 8 -10 hour burn times.
I brought in a load of 2-1/2 yr seasoned birch, What a difference!
An all night burn, with the house at 71° (OAT 14° ) this AM & still lots of wood in the stove.

Amazes me how much better some wood is for heat & long burn times.
Can't imagine what hickory, locust or oak must be like. Youns with super high BTU wood are lucky.
Would need to have allot less wood per year.

Learning curve for burning birch: when loading, have the wood next to the stove ready to load fast
Had a raging fire in 30 seconds.

That birch bark willl do it every time!

 

[Woody Stover]

I know you're in good shape with a buncha Birch stacked and ready to go.

house at 71° (OAT 14° ) this AM

It's about 72 in here now, but I'm trying to get the temp up. I opened the windows; It's 78 outside.
We're in for a rude awakening, though...mid 50s/mid 30s by the end of the week.

Can't imagine what hickory, locust or oak must be like. Youns with super high BTU wood are lucky.
Would need to have allot less wood per year.

It ends up being the same amount of work; The wood is twice as heavy.

 

[corey21]

it summer again here......

Going to cool back down this weekend.

 

[bogydave]

Got windy here, 25 MPH
Temp up to 36°.
Wind chill 23°.
Feels warm if you are out of the wind.

Got the wood Split & stacked just in time.
The stacks of green birch should be getting drier by the minute