How much have you burned this year???

Normally by this time of year, I'm well into the 3rd full cord of wood.  Normally burn about 3 full cord per burning season.  As of now;  I'm probably at 1.75 full cords burned so far.  Twas mild in October and November until the blizzard just before Thanksgiving..................then it got mild....................Most of January was cold......................Febuary and had mild and cold........................March has been fairly mild.

I am a firm believer in the one trip thing, but that is out of the ordinary for me there. Liking it though.

I've actually kicked the electric heat on to help!

 

I dunno how you do w&f... walk outside and the eyeballs and nostrils get frozen and it makes you cough to breathe it in...

 

It's not even officially winter yet! I do recall the almanac saying it was going to be a cold year!

Edited December 17, 20168 yr by hex0rz

We are currently in the mid minus 20's actual temps with  minus 40-50 wind chill feels like temp through tomorrow then into the low 30's monday and tuesday, everyone will be wearing tank tops and flip flops by then, We were all laughing at work a couple days ago, it was negative 10 and dead calm and everyone thought it was a beautiful day lol. the wind is what does us in with the cold, one get used to the cold fairly fast but even a slight breeze is really killer and it gets worse the higher the humidity is with it.

 

This is my wifes vw tdi as she drove out of the yard this morning. and a screen shot of a friends weather station south of us.

 

+9*F and 81% humidty here at the house.

 

Looking at the highway cameras...

-5*F in McCall, ID.

-12*F in New Meadows, ID.

16 hours ago, Wild and Free said:

I need this delivered to my home

 

I wonder if they will cut it and split it too

Well we did it last night. set a new record low of minus 30 we actually saw minus 27 on my pickup thermometer on the way home from date night with the mrs. Have not see minus 30's since winter of 2008-2009 here myself. I was coming home from work and saw minus 36 with strong wind with the 05 cummins, was a cold trip home couldn't get it to make heat in the engine not to mention in the cab.

 

Well it got too hot on Saturday to keep painting the exterior of the house, so I switched to putting in my stove pipe for the wood stove in my shop. 

 

I need to put some firebrick in the stove, and clean it off so that it's not a table anymore but I'm ready to burn!

 

 

 

 

Edited July 9, 20186 yr by AH64ID

You just reminded me I've got a stove project for my house I need to move my stove in the basement and turn it so the blower is pointed towards the stairs up. I've always hated where the stove guy put it way too far from the wall and doesn't need 19 inches of air space for a double wall stove plus heat shield wall. 

I passed inspection, if you want to call it that, and am burning away! This is turning out to be a great little stove. 

 

+10°F outside when I lit the fire in the shop this morning. Shop is already 42° and rising quick, still only +15°F outside. 

 

 

Nice job you did, but I like the woodstove it looks nice.

 

 Taller chimneys like mine with two story pipe runs will have more problems than shorter ones. After having years of slow draft problems, I finally went up the roof with a pair of shears and cut the metal band off that running around The uprights holding the 'helmet' or cap. This almost doubled my draft and don't need to clean it so often. What a difference this made

Edited November 11, 20186 yr by JAG1

I’m curious to see how this does. 

 

I have 16’ of single wall and then 5’ of class A chimney pipe. When it’s 400° 12” above the stove it’s 180° where the single pipe ends. 

 

It won’t get choked down too much with the size of the shop, so that will help out with creosote production. 

I usually prime / preheat my tall pipe with some papers and cardboard letting it roar pretty good before building in the kindling and wood. Let it burn wide open until stove is full hot is good. Sometimes I forget to turn it down though 

13 minutes ago, AH64ID said:

I’m curious to see how this does. 

 

I have 16’ of single wall and then 5’ of class A chimney pipe. When it’s 400° 12” above the stove it’s 180° where the single pipe ends. 

 

It won’t get choked down too much with the size of the shop, so that will help out with creosote production. 

I used to have creosote build up like a paste in the ceiling support box even though I had the correct connection the way the pipe bells are supposed to point upward. It was right at the single wall to double walled insulated pipe transition Would condense right there and weep its way outside the pipe. After the band removal, no more problem. 

Mine only creosote the last 2 foot of chimney just above the roof. Even with chimney temps above 1,400 at 12 inches above the stove the chimney top is just too cold to even bother creosote. I've got 6 inch pipe stainless as a liner in the brick chimney.

That brick chimney helps keep the pipe warmer and creosote from condensing on the pipe walls.

That’s hot!

 

My thermometer only goes to 800° and I have yet to see over 600°. 

Man I love wood stoves and burning wood.  Life has me in a different world right now.  80* today and will cool into the mid 40’s tonight.  As it cools a little further hope to test the fireplace or maybe get an insert and skip the furnace.

13 hours ago, AH64ID said:

That’s hot!

 

My thermometer only goes to 800° and I have yet to see over 600°. 

 

Mine is a True Pyrometer flue temp not just pipe temp.

Gotcha. That would explain it. 

 

Thru all the reviews I read I decided to start with a surface mount instead of drilling a hole.