Cutting Wood

[robin]

Well it's 14 degrees with a wind this morning so Judy and I are heading out to cut a load of wood,then home to watch the games--GIANTS WILL RULE LAMBEAU TODAY!!!!!

[fudgie]

Your suppose to do that in late spring/early summer so you can stay inside in the winter.  We did that all the time as a kid in the winter. Now we do it in the spring. We have enough wood for 10 yrs but dad still cuts every year.  Started the wood burner for the 1st time yesterday. It was a nice 62 deg in the house.

[Sharkey]

That is a family affair here. I run the saw and tractor with front end loader. Regina runs the log splitter, and the kids stack the brush, and load the trailer.

[hotglue #43]

14*????????   WOW!!!!!!! ! 
 It was 98* when I was cutting wood this year...FB and I cut 4 cords / year....I cut and split... FB hauls and stacks.... mainly for the BBQ pit, and what we burn in the outside fireplace on the patio.  sure makes it nice to get out of the hot tub and sit by a warm fire with a toddy!!!!!
 

[RoadKill]

I was 18 before I saw my first powered log splitter ! I was pissed at my dad for YEARS for keeping them a secret. He must have asked all the neighbors to hide theirs. Now I got me one of them fancy gas powered machines and I cut and split and heat the house for relaxation,it's like break time from the every day monotony ! 

[Farther]

It was 15 degree here yesterday.  We have been heating entirely with wood since 1976, first in South Dakota and now in Northern California.  We went through about six cords in SD and about two cords here in the State of Jefferson.  Buy it by the logging truck full, cut with chain saw and split by maul and wedge.  Our kerosene monitor heater has gone through only 250 gallons of fuel in the last 12 years.

[robin]

I cut wood all year long just happens that we have a tree program going at work and all the logs come right where i'm working so all i have to do is drive up, cut ,load and head home.
90 % the wood is OAK,ASH,WILD CHERRY AND LOCUST.

[Thulsa Doom]

Does anyone here burn coal?

[Hook#3287]

I've been heating with coal for 6 years now.   Started with a small stove that I installed in my living room.  I got sick of living with the fan noise and the clicking from the stove warming up then cooling down, so I sold it and bought a rice coal furnace.  Installed in my cellar and hooked up to my air vent system, it's pretty much a once per day check & fill and a every other day ash empty, depending on the weather.   Got it hooked up to a thermostat up in the living area.

I use my propane furnace in the early fall and late spring.   I haven't bought propane in 6 years.

It will cost me around $900.00 -$1,200.00 this season (I got a big house and I keep it at about 70) , which I'd rather do than the cutting, spliting, stacking, carrying and watching closer, that I'd have to do with wood.

But looking at all the wood on the ground around here from the tornado on 6/1/11 and the snow storm on 10/29/11, I might have to get a wood burner just so the I can get rid of it.

[Master Blaster]

My place is loaded with Chinese Tallow Trees, been cutting and uprooting  for the last few years, and finally starting to make some real headway.  Plesant surprise is they make diecent firewood, mostly about 4 to 10 inches in diameter, so doesn't have to be split.   This was a pine plantation with the pines planted in rows, and the tallows are embeded and in competition  for sun and are 40-50 or so foot and skinny.  My fireplace is a large sealed unit with glass doors and a blower.   Does a great job and is awesome to enjoy on those cold damp days we have here in Louisiana.   At the rate I am going, will have plenty of wood for the next few years.

[Quicksilver]

Often wondered about making firewood , first we cut a tree down and then we cut it up. .

[Thulsa Doom]

Bio bricks
http://www.biopellet.net/

I keep a few bags around for when the wood is wet or for whatever reason. Easy and quick and clean. They burn good and hot for about 6 hours in my stove and hardly leave any ash. No tending required.
A bit too pricey for everyday use (I never buy wood) but good to have a few bags on hand.

[JimmyG]

Used to burn wood, then got high falutten and went to gas. Now thinking about going back to wood when we build our small, in ground, south facing house. I figure we will need about 1 rick per winter, or at least I hope that is all, I'm getting to old to cut wood like I used to. 

[Hotrodwing]

Been burning coal over 20 years now.  Can't beat the Heat.  I have a self feed stoker boiler with the domestic hot water coil, never ever ran out of hot water.  The wife likes to keep it around 75 most of the time nice and toasty.

[robin]

The whole object for me is i don't a dime on any fuel for heat in the winter period!!!

[Varmintmist]

That is a family affair here. I run the saw and tractor with front end loader. Regina runs the log splitter, and the kids stack the brush, and load the trailer.

Try one of these on the 3 pt hitch. 3/8's lag bolts and some 2x10's and you can carry about 3 times as much on the back as you can in the bucket.


I dont know how much I cut a year, but the pile this fall was about 7' high avg X 22' X 26' approx. Not a lot of nice stuff this year, lots of maple. I dropped a huge oak this fall though for next year.

[Hotrodwing]

Robin I hear you, on not spending a dime we used to burn wood when I was a kid. It was a lot of work but I enjoyed it.  The coal cost me an average of 5 to 6 hundred a season.  I was thinking of adding a woodburning fireplace but the coal furance is barely running now so it would a lot of work for pure astetics

[musclehead]

cut wood for 10+ years always did it in the spring, better selection of wood. and ALWAYS split it with a maul, (powered splitter? we don' need no powered splitter) ORYGUN doesn't want you to actually find any so they keep opening up the same tired old wood cutting areas year after year. finally went to pellet stoves right before I sold it and moved to Florida.

sitting in the wildwood truck stop waiting for my wife to get off work and come get me. it's around 65 degrees