My fellow wood burners!

[Mopar1973Man]

8 hours ago, AH64ID said:

With all the standing pine and fir we have up here that is fire kill it's very easy to cut/burn in the same year. It was seasoned standing up :-). 

 

Even the few green lodge pole I cut down are seasoned very quickly with the high heat and low humidity we get all summer. 

Most of the wood I get is standing dead and dry when I cut it down. Just like AH64ID example I've been wood out of the Poe Cabin Fire for years now. Most of wood is still standing and dry. Just lightly scorched. Nothing like what you are using in hardwood which hold water for long period. I cut down trees before and bucked them up and had them start popping and cracking by the time I get home. Softwoods season quickly.

Doesn't get any drier than this...

As for this fire year I've purchase from a log yard in New Meadows, ID and brought them back early in the year to season out in the yard. As for what in the shed is good and dry. My standard stove lighting method works just find.

Now any wood I split from this point on will NOT be loaded into the shed because now this damp or moist wood that will need a summer to cure out. I'll most likely stack it up in the yard and cover it for now.

Here try this on for size load your stove with normal size firewood, no kindling. Then light your weed burner rest it on the edge of the stove. Now fill the tea kettle with water. The fire will be lit in the time the tea kettle is filled. remember this in not kindling.  Now leave the air vents wide open for exactly 10 minutes and the pyrometer with be off the scale. The stack is now clean to the top and now I adjust the air shutters to just a hair past a 1/2 turn a piece which brings me back to about 600*F pyrometer.

5 minutes just went by and blower just kicked on.

If my wood wasn't seasoned you couldn't do this. Wet fire wood burns extremely cold, smoky, hard starting, etc. Even with kindling... Or in my case a weed burner.

Edited December 1, 2015 by Mopar1973Man

[Mopar1973Man]

I just ran across some of my "Creosote Makers" when bringing in my firewood today.

This little piece of wood with this thick layer of pitch will create some serious smoke and creosote.

As this is kind of after the initial black... But its still smoking hard after one little piece put in the fire.

[JAG1]

Oh' that's a good one. I've had some like that.

Is that snow I see? How much is on the ground?

[Mopar1973Man]

2-3 inches... Nothing to write home about....

[dorkweed]

First really COLD stretch here this year.  Even when we got all the snow here prior to Thanksgiving, it was at or just below 32*F.  Twas 16*F here this morning and only got up to about 28*F during the day.  The cold came in sometime on Wednesday....................can't say for sure, because I was working in Ocala, FL Tuesday thru Thursday.  I did finally switch on my NG furnace before leaving;  even though I had it set on 55*F.  Needless to say, when I got home Friday at around noon, my house was quite cool!!!  Here's what she's at now.............................

 

 

[dripley]

Wow 755* that's a wood stove DW!!!

[hex0rz]

Hahaha...

Good one.

I recently brushed the flue out, didn't get much to come out despite burning less seasoned wood. I was pretty happy about that.

Been burning a wheelbarrow full every two days. I just picked up a pallet load of north idaho energy logs Wednesday and stuck a couple in the stove with some wood last night. Wow Is all I can say.

Got home with the house at 56 and a couple hours later before going to bed the thermostat was at 64.

I also found out my fresh air kit is possibly connected to some ducting. Hoping it's not to the house ducting..