for your OWB?
I have a Heatmor 200css , it will take up to 33" long wood, I cut all my wood at or near 24" basically because I don't want to handle anything any longer.
I store it on half pallets as that is all my little tractor can move.
Over the last three or four years I have forced myself to split it less and less meaning I end up with larger and heavier splits. The older I get I am thinking about two things, one being splitting the wood much finer and just tossing in more pieces at feeding time and two, cutting it shorter like say 15" and splitting it like I do now and just tossing in two rows or however they land.
I feed it twice a day, morning and evening. I typically put in about 5-6 pieces, sometimes less, depending on the outside temps. I'm heating about 1850 sf
One of my reasons for posting this is to see what the general consensus is on the size of the wood vs burn times. Is bigger better or doesn't it matter? I burn only seasoned hardwoods, Rd Oak, Maple, Ash and White Birch with an occasional Cherry log now and then.
I am very happy with how my OWB performs right now.
I have a Heatmor 200css , it will take up to 33" long wood, I cut all my wood at or near 24" basically because I don't want to handle anything any longer.
I store it on half pallets as that is all my little tractor can move.
Over the last three or four years I have forced myself to split it less and less meaning I end up with larger and heavier splits. The older I get I am thinking about two things, one being splitting the wood much finer and just tossing in more pieces at feeding time and two, cutting it shorter like say 15" and splitting it like I do now and just tossing in two rows or however they land.
I feed it twice a day, morning and evening. I typically put in about 5-6 pieces, sometimes less, depending on the outside temps. I'm heating about 1850 sf
One of my reasons for posting this is to see what the general consensus is on the size of the wood vs burn times. Is bigger better or doesn't it matter? I burn only seasoned hardwoods, Rd Oak, Maple, Ash and White Birch with an occasional Cherry log now and then.
I am very happy with how my OWB performs right now.