WidowMaker
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When you get to older then most of the wood your burning, burn time or species doesn't
mean much as your up often enought to keep the fire fed ...
mean much as your up often enought to keep the fire fed ...
Care to fill in the firewood geeks among us on the difference in the two measurements? Seeing 20 different charts and no two the same makes me pull out my hair, which is falling out by itself nicely enough and doesn't really need my help.
Here's a really good presentation by Intertek on the intricacies of burning wood and how to measure moisture content.
Good edjumacation right there...
Enjoy!
http://www.epa.gov/burnwise/workshop2011/WoodCombustion-Curkeet.pdf
Here's a really good presentation by Intertek on the intricacies of burning wood and how to measure moisture content.
Good edjumacation right there...
Enjoy!
http://www.epa.gov/burnwise/workshop2011/WoodCombustion-Curkeet.pdf
If anyone is wondering what that firewood your burning is really worth. Here is a list sorted by pounds per cord and MBTU (million BTU per cord).. So you can take a look at what packs the biggest punch per pound.
Got to think of the wood appliance for burning also, as some approaches capture heat more efficiently and keep it from going out the chimney
Yes I understand that hard wood is more dense and thus has more btu's, but my question was just from a standpoint of how much difference based on the different types of stoves it would actually make in real world burning. I have filled the stove to the brim with Elm (when I could find it) and set the stove on low and got better than a forty hour burn once.
How much wood fits in a blaze king? I can't imagine burn times that long, and enough heat output to heat a house for 2 1/2 days when its cold out. The math doe's not seem to work out. Well my math anyway.
The thought came up that many people, myself included, never have seen a real piece of hardwood.
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