And oh yeah, get yourself a fireplace insert. Our Avalon Ranier heats our 1400 sq. ft. ranch very capably.
...I'm not building a nice one only to be taxed on it.
It's true. We get raped on personal property tax here. It's insane.Too damn funny...
It's true. We get raped on personal property tax here. It's insane.
Smokes? People still smoke cigarettes?I wouldn't know, or pretend to know about your property taxes... but whenever I'm in Missouri I stock up on smokes 'cause the tax on them in your state is insanely low‼
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Cover your wood!!
Depends
On how far ahead your stacks will supply. I've thrown away a lot of wood that rotted in the pile before it is needed.
On how consistent your winters are. Mine vary a lot, moderate to cold, wet to dry.
On how you stack. Single rows with air ways between or 4 rows tight together?
On species of wood. Hedge or soft maple or white oak or sycamore?
On whether your wood is off the ground.
On your climate. Humid or dry, hot or cold.
On whether the bark is removed, back to the species. Some loses the bark easy, some sticks forever. Bark slows drying.
On the diameter of the rounds. Small diameter stuff has a high percentage of sapwood which rots fast.
On how small you split. The bigger they are the slower they dry.
On stack location. Open area on top of a hill will dry better than a shaded area with stifled air movement.
On how much wind you are willing to address with your temporary covers, tarps, roofing sheets/panels.
There are more. We do what we can afford to do and what we are willing to do. I have been heating with wood for 38 years from an uncovered wood pile, on a hill top, that sits on the ground. I cut almost any wood that hits the ground or dies while still standing. I like the work and the heat. I have budgeted for material to build a 480 square foot wood shed when the weather breaks in the spring. LOL
I doubt any of the posters describing what they do with their wood are wanting to dictate what others do.
If I had to buy wood then yes I would probably waste time making nice pretty stacks and covers, but I can burn until the year 4000 and not run out of firewood. I drop trees and cut them up then push them in a pile with the grapple bucket and go back and get them a year or so later to bring to the house. Most of the time I fill the buckets or dump trailers and end up making another big pile by the house. Last week I actually did stack it up nice though.Yeah I know, and I worded that a bit more harshly than I intended to, in that we all tend to forget what others deal with in different parts of the globe, country, state on down the line.
Oh hell yes... some of us still smoke...
And the most amazing part.... we're still alive‼
Well, wait just a darn minute here. It ain't possible to smoke cigs unless you're alive.
Some people can smoke after they're dead, but once the ole stove gets a rollin' that goes away.
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