So, How Much You Burnt Since AS Got Hacked ?

[Icehouse]

Guess I've been burning about 3 weeks, might have burned not quit 1/2 cord of birch. Stihl working on next years or maybe 2 years from now birch, got to stay sawing so I don't forget how. Going to try and take pix of wood lot tomorrow and see if I can figure out how to get pix on here, looks easy now.

 

[pennsywoodburnr]

I would say I haven't even gone through a face cord yet. This is mostly due to the wife wanting to take the edge off of the house when we wake up in the morning before I head out scrounging, or in the evenings when I'm still at work and she wants it warmer than what the electric heater can keep up with. So basically.....it's whenever she wants! Burning just the weird, unidentifiable wood given to me by a friend. I figure I'll be getting into my primo oak in another month and a half.

 

[dingeryote]

Probably about 1/4 cord of half punky box elder here.

Welcome back, everyone.

Oh and Zog, nice Poulared you got there!

Steve,

Would that be the Nasty, filthy, wretched, Box elder you posted pics of murdering a while back?
If so, GOOD!!!
That's one less on the planet.

I got into a tangle of them in a windrow I have to clean out, and I'm shifting my hate for Sassafrass to Boxelder for a week or so.
There is just no purpose on earth for the things other than to breed stinkbugs and shelter poison Ivy.

 

[Steve NW WI]

Steve,

Would that be the Nasty, filthy, wretched, Box elder you posted pics of murdering a while back?
If so, GOOD!!!
That's one less on the planet.

I got into a tangle of them in a windrow I have to clean out, and I'm shifting my hate for Sassafrass to Boxelder for a week or so.
There is just no purpose on earth for the things other than to breed stinkbugs and shelter poison Ivy.

Yup. Got 2 more good sized ones (and not rotten like the last one) down at a friend's place. Didn't want em, but they came with the 2 big black locusts there. At least they make a loop of kinda dull semi chisel feel like race chain. I should sell the stuff to wannabe saw porters to use for showing off their work. At least I don't get too worked up about brushing, just cut off everything that doesn't look like a straight piece of firewood and throw it on the brush pile.

Once I get done there, I think it's back to my woods again. Pretty much caught up on "Wanna come take this down for me" wood right now.

 

[Iska3]

Keeping the OWB going 24/7 now but burning up a lot of that stuff that Steve doesn't like. Makes for a good daytime wood but that's about it. Nice to see the site up again...

 

[Iska3]

Huh! I'm listed as a New Member... Wish it was a YOUNG Member.... Now I know how Storm felt. ;-) (woohoo, I'm a new member ...... I feel like a virgin again)

 

[haveawoody]

Almost a month burning now for me.
Got to love this time of year though, all the uglies and crud wood piles decrease.
Just a short time ago you were wondering why you made those piles of crud wood early in the season and it being worth the effort.
About 1 cord of a giant next door neighbours poplar to go for me with the occasional bit of decent wood in that mix, think I will be still burning some in early spring.
Mid December crud wood gets replaced with good hardwood.
Second year in a row with poplar as shoulder wood and I must say it's nice clean burning wood, gopher for sure but clean gopher

 

[olyman]

been burning for a month...but all short and smalls, and junk wood. aint hit the good stuff yet...

 

[slowp]

An armload per day during Octubre. The woodstove got 10 days of rest whilst The Used Dog and I were in sunny Mid California wine country, or in traveling mode. Got home yesterday and the house temp was 48, outdoors was 49. I left the electric heat on at a very low setting in the kitchen and bathrooms. Don't know if it came on.

However, at the Napa GTG we burned a lot of firewood for a couple of nights. Nights were chilly, days were quite warm there. We are supposed to get a smiting tomorrow. It is November.

 

[colin.p]

I have burning pretty well steady since mid September. Gone through some of my crappy-punky silver maple, some ash/maple/oak to keep the crap burning and a pile of oak/maple flooring ends. My son does hardwood flooring and brings home the cut-offs. At the price of flooring now-a-days, I figure I have burned several thousand bucks worth of wood.

BTW, either my eyes have gone completely, or the smilies are darned near impossible to decipher.

 

[FLHX Storm]

I left the electric heat on at a very low setting in the kitchen and bathrooms. Don't know if it came on.

You'll know soon enough if the electric heat came on while you were away. It'll show on your electric bill! Get ready to sign away your next born!

 

[apn73]

I burn on and off through September and the early part of October, it just depends on the weather. I've been burning pretty steady over the last couple of weeks though, been a pretty cold late October and early November so far up here. I've burt going half a cord now, some uglies and shorts, but have tapped the good stuff too. Not worried, got plenty of wood to burn plus a pellet stove.

 

[steved]

I doubt we've burnt half of a face cord...mostly just burning at night to help the house hold heat until the next day. Looks like that'll be changing soon though...

 

[mking7]

This is the time of year I get jealous. I've run the air conditioner in the last week. No burning yet. I get on here and see others' wood stacks and try to cut and split to keep pace. But I burn so little in comparison that I'm probably 5 years ahead at this point.

 

[Dalmatian90]

What's worse...Hackers or Box Elder?

Been clearing up on the edge of the lower yard (field?) and I'm getting closer to a #@%$ Box Elder trunk I'll have to cut up soon to get it out of the way. I cut up the top last year that was blocking the driveway, now I'm cleaning up some multiflora rose growing over a pile of gravel I want to use to fix the driveway, and the trunk is on top of that. (OLD piles of gravel...I might not have been born yet when it was delivered...)

And I doubt I've gone through 1/4 cord yet...but probably close (darn inefficient stove)

 

[leftyz]

Been burning a lot of Ash, some soft maple and small rounds of hickory, I've probably already gone through 1/2 a cord or more total. We've been running the stove a lot. We had record low temps here in the last week, one night it got down to 16 degrees.

I bought a new saw on ebay, still hasn't got here but cant wait, its a Husky 460. Once it arrives I'll be going out and loading up on dead stuff.

 

[olyman]

Octubre. [/quote]
ok..........

 

[zogger]

Been burning a lot of Ash, some soft maple and small rounds of hickory, I've probably already gone through 1/2 a cord or more total. We've been running the stove a lot. We had record low temps here in the last week, one night it got down to 16 degrees.

I bought a new saw on ebay, still hasn't got here but cant wait, its a Husky 460. Once it arrives I'll be going out and loading up on dead stuff.

Congrats on new to you saw! Always big fun!

 

[slowp]

You'll know soon enough if the electric heat came on while you were away. It'll show on your electric bill! Get ready to sign away your next born!

Nope. We have socialist hydro power. In fact, I imagine it costs the same to heat with wood as it would to use the electric heat. Maybe more? Gots to factor in gas, time, saw, etc. vs cheaper rates than elsewhere. Besides, I turned off the water heater, which is also electric. That's why the aluminum industry was out here big time in the past--cheap and lots of it, electricity.

 

[slowp]

Octubre.

ok..........[/quote]

Si.