Wood Heat Thread ~ post pics

I tend to try and "noodle" block like this with a chainsaw, they stack neater afterward!!!

 

Next years stash, all on pallets ready to go

 

Do you transfer the wood on pallets to the house from the storage location with a forklift?

 

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This ??

 

pretty good idea!

 

Bring in one pallet at a time in the attached garage with my tractor. It's the first year for this, it's saves lots of handling

 

Or maybe a tractor with pallet forks on the bucket?


Edit- Oh hey look at that. Too slow.

Lots of wasted space in that woodshed, though, with all those pallets. You must not use wood for your primary?

 

Primary for the living space ( bungalow) electric radiant everywhere else. Your right it does take up extra space, but I save so much time it's worth it, I pile it directly on the pallets when I am splitting it

 

For sure it makes sense for how much you use. I'd love to have a similar setup, but I'd need a giant-ass woodshed to accomodate the 5+/- cords I put up.

 

Last year was an easy year, we burnt 7 face cords (16 inch). There is 12 1/2, 16" face cords under that leanto

 

Does that include the space lost to pallets? Or is it a measurement of just the firewood itself?

 

thats just fire wood, in face cords, so about 4 full cord.

 

Another reason to help convince the wife to let me buy a tractor with an additional pallet fork attachment.

 

Nice. Winters have been hard to gauge around here lately. Winter of 13/14 I went through all 5 of my cords, plus about 1/2 cord of semi-seasoned I had to mix in. Winter of 14/15 I put up an extra cord and nearly burned through all of that. Last winter (15/16) I put up 6 cord again and I've still got 2.5-3 of it left. So I'm putting up 6 again, lol.

 

i have 3 cord full cord left over from last year, should be a nice easy winter of cutting this winter.

 

dafuq face cord

You mean 1/3 of a cord

 

yup, round here wood is calculated and sold by the face cord, usually 16" so, like you said 1/3 cord!!! i always forget the rest of north america does it the right way....

 

Haha

"Face cord" is a pet peeve of mine lol , its so stupid

 

It was a mild winter here too. I only burned 2 cords as opposed to 3 to 3 1/2 (Canadian bush cords of nice dry elm/ash/oak/soft maple ). I have over 4 cord left, but I always like to have more than I need.

 

i agree with you 100%, i have always cut my own wood, buy a face cord that should be 16" but is only 12" is a real piss off, there are a lot of people out here that do it that way....