Family cutting day.

rockyridgefarm · Dec 28, 2020

We went down and got a load of firewood before the snow started yesterday. I wish I was as prepared as ACG and have years worth of wood ready, but no dice. Usually about two months ahead. This is black locust. I cut posts out of the straighter stuff and burn the crooked. We processed it right next to the stove.

If you happen to read this, ACG, I am glad you made it through.

larry@stinescorner · Dec 28, 2020

There is only one Wood King!!! Long live the King!!!

Traditional Farmer · Dec 28, 2020

Black Locust best firewood I know of,a notch above Hickory.I don't have enough to burn all the time mainly burn white and red oak but in real cold weather hit the Hickory and Black Locust.I cut my wood in the Winter hate cutting it in the Summer plus too many other things to do then.

Bruce from Can. · Dec 28, 2020

Title sounds painful.... we used to sometimes get
together and cut hogs, to make barrows.

rockyridgefarm · Dec 28, 2020

I burn anything that I put a saw in. It all makes ashes. My owb is a wood gasifier. It is not as forgiving as a simple boiler and requires the wood to be dryer than a simple boiler. But I only need to burn about 12 cord a year to keep a 90 year old house warm. I have heard of ridiculous wood consumption through the older OWBs. Especially if burning green wood. 12 cord through the gasifier makes 2-3 wheelbarrows of ash a year, doesnt matter if I burn elm, locust, or box elder.

bobfeather · Dec 28, 2020

LOL Bruce, remember back in the day i had to hold the piggies, Unc George did the cutting, had a bottle of i think turpentine to sprinkle on the cut to dis-infect it, and all the barn cats were sitting waiting for the little treats to eat
man did those little piggies squeel !

4520BW · Dec 28, 2020

The ground was frozen enough we could haul
out Saturday morning.

showcrop · Dec 28, 2020

4520bw, your pics remind me of a few years ago when a friend was trying to arrange a wood splitting day in order to supply a certain needy person. He knew that I had access to a dump truck and asked if I could get it. I had a hard time to get him to see that it would not work to throw the wood into the tri-axle body by hand.

showcrop · Dec 28, 2020

4520bw, your pics remind me of a few years ago when a friend was trying to arrange a wood splitting day in order to supply a certain needy person. He knew that I had access to a dump truck and asked if I could get it. I had a hard time to get him to see that it would not work to throw the wood into the tri-axle body by hand.

Peat · Dec 28, 2020

X2 Amen

bmack95hd · Dec 28, 2020

Title lead me to believe it was going to be a group hair cutting.
Firewood is a good thing to get help with.

Crazy Horse · Dec 28, 2020

Some BTU values below from a web search ..... hardwoods first, then softwoods ...

HARDWOODS:

Osage orange, 32.9 BTUs per cord
Shagbark hickory, 27.7 BTUs per cord
Eastern hornbeam, 27.1 BTUs per cord
Black birch, 26.8 BTUs per cord
Black locust, 26.8 BTUs per cord
Blue beech, 26.8 BTUs per cord
Ironwood, 26.8 BTUs per cord
Bitternut hickory, 26.5 BTUs per cord
Honey locust, 26.5 BTUs per cord
Apple, 25.8 BTUs per cord
Mulberry, 25.7 BTUs per cord
Beech, 24 BTUs per cord
Northern red oak, 24 BTUs per cord
Sugar maple, 24 BTUs per cord
White oak, 24 BTUs per cord
White ash, 23.6 BTUs per cord
Yellow birch, 21.8 BTUs per cord
Red elm, 21.6 BTUs per cord
Hackberry, 20.8 BTUs per cord
Kentucky coffee tree, 20.8 BTUs per cord
Gray birch, 20.3 BTUs per cord
Paper birch, 20.3 BTUs per cord
White birch, 20.2 BTUs per cord
Black walnut, 20 BTUs per cord
Cherry, 20 BTUs per cord
Green ash, 19.9 BTUs per cord
Black cherry, 19.5 BTUs per cord
American elm, 19.5 BTUs per cord
White elm, 19.5 BTUs per cord
Sycamore, 19.1 BTUs per cord
Black ash, 18.7 BTUs per cord
Red maple, 18.1 BTUs per cord

SOFTWOODS

Rocky Mountain juniper, 21.6 BTUs per cord
Tamarack, 20.8 BTUs per cord
Jack pine, 17.1 BTUs per cord
Norway pine, 17.1 BTUs per cord
Pitch pine, 17.1 BTUs per cord
Hemlock, 15.9 BTUs per cord
Black spruce, 15.9 BTUs per cord
Eastern white pine, 14.3 BTUs per cord
Balsam fir, 14.3 BTUs per cord
Eastern white cedar, 12.2 BTUs per cord

Bruce from Can. · Dec 28, 2020

We used Detol , just bought from the drugstore.
Worked perfectly fine as a disinfectant. Still smell it ,
a ohh yes, those little fellas could sure squeal

showcrop · Dec 28, 2020

(quoted from post at 07:48:15 12/28/20) Some BTU values below from a web search ..... hardwoods first, then softwoods ...

HARDWOODS:

Osage orange, 32.9 BTUs per cord
Shagbark hickory, 27.7 BTUs per cord
Eastern hornbeam, 27.1 BTUs per cord
Black birch, 26.8 BTUs per cord
Black locust, 26.8 BTUs per cord
Blue beech, 26.8 BTUs per cord
Ironwood, 26.8 BTUs per cord
Bitternut hickory, 26.5 BTUs per cord
Honey locust, 26.5 BTUs per cord
Apple, 25.8 BTUs per cord
Mulberry, 25.7 BTUs per cord
Beech, 24 BTUs per cord
Northern red oak, 24 BTUs per cord
Sugar maple, 24 BTUs per cord
White oak, 24 BTUs per cord
White ash, 23.6 BTUs per cord
Yellow birch, 21.8 BTUs per cord
Red elm, 21.6 BTUs per cord
Hackberry, 20.8 BTUs per cord
Kentucky coffee tree, 20.8 BTUs per cord
Gray birch, 20.3 BTUs per cord
Paper birch, 20.3 BTUs per cord
White birch, 20.2 BTUs per cord
Black walnut, 20 BTUs per cord
Cherry, 20 BTUs per cord
Green ash, 19.9 BTUs per cord
Black cherry, 19.5 BTUs per cord
American elm, 19.5 BTUs per cord
White elm, 19.5 BTUs per cord
Sycamore, 19.1 BTUs per cord
Black ash, 18.7 BTUs per cord
Red maple, 18.1 BTUs per cord

SOFTWOODS

Rocky Mountain juniper, 21.6 BTUs per cord
Tamarack, 20.8 BTUs per cord
Jack pine, 17.1 BTUs per cord
Norway pine, 17.1 BTUs per cord
Pitch pine, 17.1 BTUs per cord
Hemlock, 15.9 BTUs per cord
Black spruce, 15.9 BTUs per cord
Eastern white pine, 14.3 BTUs per cord
Balsam fir, 14.3 BTUs per cord
Eastern white cedar, 12.2 BTUs per cord

Crazy Horse, that should be million BTUs/cord

EFV · Dec 28, 2020

What piece of John Deere equipment are the wagon beams made from ?
Looks like cultivator or tool bar ,

cdmn · Dec 28, 2020

Rule of thumb: One match equals one btu. The above are in "Millions".

cdmn · Dec 28, 2020

There's an art to piling wood
Norwegian Wood

rockyridgefarm · Dec 28, 2020

EFV, John Deere 1450 plow beams

rockyridgefarm · Dec 28, 2020

There might be an elective art to it, but I choose function over form.

Crazy Horse · Dec 28, 2020

Yeah, that's a lot of zeros to type though ..... ha! Since the numbers themselves are meaningless though, they only make sense relative to all the others so it doesn't make much difference, the list is still meaningful. I cut and pasted the info obviously, maybe that part got missed in the cut.

rockyridgefarm · Dec 28, 2020

Generally, BTUs are dependant on pounds per cord.

You'll notice a dry cord of Box elder weighs 2632 pounds and has 18.3m btus. 6950 btus per pound.

A dry cord of black locust weighs 4016 pounds and has 27.9m btus 6947 btus per pound.

red oak is 6928 btus per pound

Willow (the only wood to get a "poor" rating on the site I looked up) is 6929 btus per pound

You may have to throw twice as much volume into the stove to get the same amount of heat, but you're throwing the same amount of weight. There is no such thing as junk wood with an OWB. Just different levels of good. I'll cut locust all the way down to 2" diameter 30" long. I usually stop at 4" diameter on boxelder.

Of course, there are many other factors that affect consumption through a stove. If your stove is making a lot of ash, it's wasting a lot of wood. An inefficient stove just makes more work.

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