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A survey.
What part of your winter heat comes from wood ?
What kind do you use? How much in cords / year?
Harvest your own ?
Kind (s) of wood stoves or boilers/furnaces used ?
Here goes for Downeast coastal Maine near Acadia:
Heat 99% with wood (gas space backup for "pipe heating" when away in winter for more than a couple of days). :greenchainsaw:
Two parts of the house, one closed off--no plumbing-- when away in winter. Two cast iron stoves: Vermont Castings Encore Catalytic 2001. Jotul Oslo non-cat.
Cut 6-7 cords for firewood on our woodlot/year, along with TSI, some pulp, sawlogs.
Trees for firewood: paper birch, red maple, little red oak including 'dead' but burnable, some ash. little yellow locust and apple. Blowdown spruce, fir, cedar used for workshop, hot tub, sauna, odd summer fires.
That's it. Year round fun :monkey: work when the ground is not soaked or snow height over 1 foot or so. Sing, all together : " I'm a lumberjack, and I'm OK, I sleep all night, and I work all day......." Monty Python lyrics.
What part of your winter heat comes from wood ?
What kind do you use? How much in cords / year?
Harvest your own ?
Kind (s) of wood stoves or boilers/furnaces used ?
Here goes for Downeast coastal Maine near Acadia:
Heat 99% with wood (gas space backup for "pipe heating" when away in winter for more than a couple of days). :greenchainsaw:
Two parts of the house, one closed off--no plumbing-- when away in winter. Two cast iron stoves: Vermont Castings Encore Catalytic 2001. Jotul Oslo non-cat.
Cut 6-7 cords for firewood on our woodlot/year, along with TSI, some pulp, sawlogs.
Trees for firewood: paper birch, red maple, little red oak including 'dead' but burnable, some ash. little yellow locust and apple. Blowdown spruce, fir, cedar used for workshop, hot tub, sauna, odd summer fires.
That's it. Year round fun :monkey: work when the ground is not soaked or snow height over 1 foot or so. Sing, all together : " I'm a lumberjack, and I'm OK, I sleep all night, and I work all day......." Monty Python lyrics.