Wood Heat Thread ~ post pics

Finished cutting and splitting what Ihave for next season so far .

 

December might have been warmer than usual but the rest of this El Nino winter is actually pretty average... All to say that Im now running right through my firewood. Another week of sub freezing lows and I'll be listening to the heat pump!!

 

Damn, I'm surprised you've only had 16" of rain for the year. I lived in Puyallup for many years and that seems light, or maybe it's just been really heavy here. I just checked my rain gauge and with the 3.26" we got here in middle TN last week, we're at 16.75" so far in 2024. My yard is soggy!

 

And some more

 

with all this wood you're hoarding , what wood stove do you have ?

 

An Ironstrike insert for the fireplace. I have to get all that green wood split and stacked so it dries enough for winter 24-25’ ! I use 3 chord a year on average.

 

I have permission to hunt and cut wood on 130 acres behind my house . Drop trees ,chunk it up haul it out with lawn cart on my quad . Split it here in the yard . My son helps me a lot ,he’s 37 and stronger than my old back . He does all the lifting. I gonna just keep hauling it out !

 

That’s a sweet deal. I purchase a permit to hunt and cut on Hancock property (Weyerhaeuser). $75 bucks gets me a key to 1000’s of gated acres. They limit permits but still have to compete for the good stuff.

 

I like the look of that, I'm thinking about getting an insert like yours for my fireplace. I enjoy a good fire, but my fireplace looks better than it heats. It seems like most of the heat goes up the flute. If I'm not sitting within 5' of the fire I don't feel much. From the far side of the living room 20' away, you can't tell the temperature is any warmer when the fire is burning. It always annoys me because I feel like I'm wasting the wood.

 

Most fireplaces are like that . This thing is great. We have an open floor plan on the first floor about 1100 square feet and we usually turn the blower off on the stove because it gets too hot in here .

 

More wood

 

Load no. 5 of 7

 

Gonna drop a couple more oak trees this week up in the woods behind my house

 

we were trying to get my last camera out of the woods when we ran into “load 5”.
Load 6 was more typical and much closer to home!

the potty is always on board!

 

I’m still at it !https://youtu.be/jTkLNxnd4YY?si=IBOm8zlj5xJEto9s

 

Damn, you got us beat, then again we will surpass you handily when the rainy season hits. Winter is our dry season usually so these numbers are alot for Jan thru now.
I live in the top arrow county and work in the bottom.

 

I live in a river valley with Olympia. No mountain to wring the water out of the clouds. I work and play on the west slopes of the coastal range. That’s where the real rain falls!
I’ve never experienced 3-7” rain events here like y’all get in the summer along the Gulf coast. In a matter of hours sometimes!

 

Morning. Just wondering….
I spend most of my time over at 50+ thread, but I am looking to sell my Resolute Acclaim wood stove, and thought…‘I wonder if there’s a TW thread for that?’ Well, I know there’s a buy,sell,trade thread, but hey, it’s TW…anyway, Do any of you over here have advice on selling a stove on TW?

 

Well, we ended up having to tear out the wood stove insert that I posted about here due to issues with the install and the fireplace it went into. The shop I bought it from and who contracted out the install made it right. They exchanged it for a freestanding Jotul F45 Greenville wood stove. Just had it installed and fired it up for the first time the other night!