Well, we have our wood stacked inside for the winter. This first area is in the garage. I measure about 97" X 63". That makes, by my calculation, about 1.3 face cords (plus some unstackable chunkwood on the floor). It is mostly Apple with some Ash.
And one cat that eats about 2 cords of catfood a week.
Next is the woodshop. I figure that this is about 3 cords. Ash, Hard Maple, and Cherry. Ignore the junk pile.
Another shot of the woodshop load.
In the basement, we have this hall. It is about 25' long and about 10' wide. That is a walk-in freezer with the white door. We don't use it. I figure we have about 7 cords down there. It is all Cherry, Hard Maple, Apple, and Ash. All of the wood has been bug bombed (so that we can store it inside without dealing with all of the spiders and stuff). There is a dehumidifier running in the basement storage area. That wood is really, really dry.
We have historically burned from about 8 to 10 cords per winter, depending upon how long the cold lasts and how cold it gets. We have a little more wood this time. On the other hand, we are having a larger woodstove installed right now. It is more efficient than the one we have now. Because it is bigger, I would think it would eat more wood. On the other hand, because it is so much more efficient, We'll have it choked off most of the time. The old stove ran with its air inlet damper wide open all of the time so that we could maximize its heat output. The bottom line is; I don't know how much wood this new stove will eat compared to the old one. I guess we'll see.
And one cat that eats about 2 cords of catfood a week.
Next is the woodshop. I figure that this is about 3 cords. Ash, Hard Maple, and Cherry. Ignore the junk pile.
Another shot of the woodshop load.
In the basement, we have this hall. It is about 25' long and about 10' wide. That is a walk-in freezer with the white door. We don't use it. I figure we have about 7 cords down there. It is all Cherry, Hard Maple, Apple, and Ash. All of the wood has been bug bombed (so that we can store it inside without dealing with all of the spiders and stuff). There is a dehumidifier running in the basement storage area. That wood is really, really dry.
We have historically burned from about 8 to 10 cords per winter, depending upon how long the cold lasts and how cold it gets. We have a little more wood this time. On the other hand, we are having a larger woodstove installed right now. It is more efficient than the one we have now. Because it is bigger, I would think it would eat more wood. On the other hand, because it is so much more efficient, We'll have it choked off most of the time. The old stove ran with its air inlet damper wide open all of the time so that we could maximize its heat output. The bottom line is; I don't know how much wood this new stove will eat compared to the old one. I guess we'll see.
3 comments:
Das a lot O wood!
I hope it's enough wood to get us thru the winter!
The neat thing about this year's wood is that we did it all. I felled the trees. We limbed them, bucked up the logs, split it into firewood, hauled it in, and stacked it. Every stick of it. It was a lot of work. The boys benefited from it in several ways. They made a few bucks doing it. They learned a little about stable stacking and what makes a sound structure. They got several physical workouts. In addition, we didn't spend 5 or 6 hundred bucks on firewood. With this new stove, we'll also knock our heating bill down. Our natural gas boiler will not come on as often if this stove puts out more heat than the old one (which it most certainly will). Oh, well. You have to find something to get excited about.
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