Wood burning stove....

Greg1959 · Oct 16, 2015

Got my wood burning stove loaded up and ready to light for in the morning. First time this season.

Calling for a low in the high 20's tonight and a high of only in the 40's for tomorrow. Then Indian summer for next week!

RBoots · Oct 16, 2015

Where you at Greg? I've been burning wood in the evening/at night for almost a month except a few days here and there here in MI. I don't tolerate cold well though, hate it. Spend plenty of time at work in the cold, so love a toasty warm house.

Ross

Greg1959 · Oct 16, 2015

Richard G. · Oct 16, 2015

Checked and cleaned my chimney yesterday and have wood on the porch for tomorrow night.
My son is about to have 20 acres of hardwood cut. Should be lots of firewood for several years out of the tops.
Richard in NW SC

37chief · Oct 16, 2015

Heat is still not needed out here in California yet. Not looking forward to hauling wood inside the house. I should start splitting now. What usually happens is, I just split enough for a few days. Can't remember splitting enough wood for the whole year. Then there isn't too many days I need a fire the whole day. Stan

notjustair · Oct 16, 2015

I'm ready but we haven't had prolonged cold enough for me to fire it up. The house still warms up enough during the day. The sweep was out three weeks ago and got everything ready. Every time I think of sweeping it like we did when I was a kid I remember my insurance and the lifetime warranty on the flue liner. A little easier to get that replaced if the guy that installed it accidentally made a whole in it with the brushes. I'm sure my insurance guy would feel better knowing I paid a real sweep to do it. Funny what you mind jumps to when you get older.

Ivan in Mich · Oct 16, 2015

The ground is white here in northern lower Mi. Been snowing since late afternoon

RBoots · Oct 16, 2015

Great. Headed to Bear Lake tomorrow for a load of logs. Up a steep hill and tight turn at the road. Hopefully it is snow covered or frosty so I can waste more time trying to get out lol. Headed to Coldwater. Almost exactly 250 miles loaded and 250 unloaded round trip. Anyone want to buy any high dollar firewood? LOL

Ross

farmerwithmutt · Oct 17, 2015

An old guy told me now and late spring is a good time to burn your junk wood. The idea is that it gives off enough heat to take the chill out of the house without getting to hot. The nice thing is its a great way to get rid of fence row trees box elder is good this time of year choke cherry a little later then the good stuff goes in. It also saves your good wood.

TomA in CA · Oct 17, 2015

I am in Sierra foothills in CA. Wife is deathly afraid of fire. I am not alowed to light stove until after first rains. Right now I turn off cooler for a few hours in the AM, still getting hot in daytime. Wife doesn't like wood around so I cut as we burn. I usually drop live oak the year before and cut as needed. Try to cut 8" or smaller so I don't have to split. Lots of live oak dying from the drought so will b plenty this year. One fill of gas in chainsaw = 2-3 weeks wood @ 12" legnths. Low temps about 28 degrees can go low as 20 in cold snap.

Adirondack case guy · Oct 17, 2015

We have had to lite our central fireplace several times this month. Lit it yesterday and and sounds like it will be going all weekend. Had snow squalls roll through this morning. Haven't got up to 40F yet today.
Loren

keh · Oct 17, 2015

CA can't catch a break. News this AM said the Los Angles area had rains and mud slides which closed a main highway.

KEH

37chief · Oct 17, 2015

That's a good load of wood. Looks like a lot of driving. Is it cost effective going all those miles? Stan

SparepartsTN · Oct 17, 2015

If you want to keep that W-900(?) looking that good, you better get top dollar for your "firewood".

RBoots · Oct 17, 2015

Chief,I'm not real sure on that. That load is right around 10,000 board feet, and we are just contracted to do the hauling. The fellers and the mill that bought them are from somewhere in Indiana, so we are hauling them to Coldwater (13 miles from Indiana) because we can legally haul more here in Michigan and our trucks are designed that way. Their own trucks from Indiana will only legally carry around 1/3 of what we can, so we are just doing the long distance moving for them. We couldn't take our fully loaded trucks into Indiana anyway, so they are just doing the short moves from Coldwater to wherever their mill is in Indiana. We are plated for I believe 160,000 legally, still get some hefty overweight fines. Hard to guess on timber weight with all different species on the trailer.

Ross

RBoots · Oct 17, 2015

What is chokecherry? Is it the same as we here refer to as black cherry? Never heard anyone around here call any kind of tree a chokecherry, and I'm very familiar with trees (at least the ones in my region). I hate Boxelder, I cut it, split it, and throw it in a covered pile for a couple years to dry, them give it to my dad for shop heating wood. It smells so bad I don't want to smell it burning in my shop. And I have years of Ash wood going bad, so might as well use that in the house and shop.

Ross

J.Wondergem · Oct 17, 2015

Chokecherry is the wild cherry that grows around here. That is called chokecherry because it will choke sheep if they eat it.

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