Wood Heat Thread ~ post pics

That's not all gonna fit

 

I reckon'd that I could get about a third of a cord in that bed in one trip. At my age that's about all (the oak) i'd want to cut and split in a day anyway! I used about 3-3.5 cord a year
there in east Texas. Rare to find one abandoned deck that would do it.

 

Moved last autumn and the new house has a stove but only came with maybe a pickup load of Douglas-fir. We burned only on nights below freezing. I just put the last two pieces on.

 

Update to my prior post. Finally, over a month later, finished the wood stove insert in the house! Repairs to a leaky old chase cover and the resulting water damage to the roof delayed this project. Regency i1150 fit perfectly into our old and inefficient prefab ZC fireplace.

Before and after:

 

I have burned a little over two cord of oak this season and almost ran out this week. I’ve burned about 50% more than the last five seasons already…

Broke down and bought some almond to get me through the rest of the season.

What’s left:


The almond:

 

is your new insert also a ZC to replace the old or a traditional insert? I had a traditional at my old place in a mason fireplace. the new house has a ZC which I was not aware how they actually are constructed so when looking to replace with an efficient unit, it became clear my limitations and the increase cost for a ZC efficient insert over a traditional.

 

The new wood stove insert just slides right inside the old zero clearance fireplace. This model of Regency was designed specifically for this use case and it was the only wood stove out there that would fit. It has a little offset flue adapter to line up with the original chimney pipe and a new liner to go up inside it and a cap for the top of the chimney. Here are some more photos of the install. Side note, you can tell in the last photo why I had a leaky chase and water damage to the roof.

 

We had to replace our brass dragon steamer on top of the stove. Its head kept blowing off, which made for quite a show, not to mention shooting boiling water 8 feet in the air. I suspect the center of our current stove is considerably hotter than the old one, which might have been causing steam to form under the water in the dragon's belly, between the metal bottom and the body of water above. The new pot has no such issues, and emits a metric buttload more water vapor into the environment to boot.

 

do your stone walls absorb a vast amount of heat , taking it longer to heat that room up?

 

The stone walls act like heat batteries. They're outer walls, about a foot thick in most places. They will stay cool (not cold) to the touch all winter in spite of the wood stove; it's too far away from the wall to transfer any serious BTU's into the stone. In summer they also stay cool, even days into a heat wave, which is nice. However once they finally warm up they stay warm. They'll lose that stored heat for a day or so after the heat wave breaks, which isn't so nice.

 

Thank you. That makes more sense in what you did.

 

“The heat that warms ya twice”

 

Man thats awesome that you can find logs all ready to be cut on the side of the FS road.

 

I’m kinda an “inside guy” but still have to find stuff that isn’t under contract. Post 4141 was left when diesel got expensive and the logger couldn’t make $$ on a long schlep to the hardwood pulp mill. I have a permit for the latest pictures and those are (too) short logs residual from a woods road ROW. I sneak around the geodatabase looking for opportunities (close to the road).

 

Helped my father get a little over a cord of madrone to top off what he had already. Enough up there to get a good but of a load if I had a self loader.
We had gone up where BLM had said there was some and found a little bit of sub 12" diameter stuff. But, a couple guys I know from the logging company were out inspecting the road and told us where they had decked a whole bunch of madrone. Ended up getting 18"-36" diameter stuff. Went ahead and split it before loading up the truck because the stuff split easily with just an axe. So, the badass log splitter I built for this year will get no use.

 

3 times if you count stacking it. 4 if you are the one who carries it into the house…I just cut, split, and unloaded a cord of cedar…have yet to stack it. Stay Well…Stay Safe

 

The carpentry aisle in my storage woodshed got some additions yesterday , lol

 

Do you all do kindling start in your stoves or use a starter?