First year for me using my wood boiler at the cabin. Adding the days together, I spent about a month up there through the heating season with the stove going. The first 10 day stretch had lows in the -30's every night. Felt like I never stopped stoking the stove.
Burning mostly low BTU aspen from clean up jobs on our property boosted my consumption as did the fact that being unfamiliar with the stove I had split the wood too small to more of a "fireplace" size. The splits will be 3X larger this year and will also be cutting higher BTU species except for the remaining clean up wood.
Went through about 3 cords so I'd definitely want 12 cords to get through the winter if I lived there. Although when I did burn the limited hardwood I got almost 2-3 times as long of a burn time in cold weather.
Burning mostly low BTU aspen from clean up jobs on our property boosted my consumption as did the fact that being unfamiliar with the stove I had split the wood too small to more of a "fireplace" size. The splits will be 3X larger this year and will also be cutting higher BTU species except for the remaining clean up wood.
Went through about 3 cords so I'd definitely want 12 cords to get through the winter if I lived there. Although when I did burn the limited hardwood I got almost 2-3 times as long of a burn time in cold weather.