Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => General Outdoor Furnace Discussion => Topic started by: coolidge on August 20, 2017, 02:05:37 PM
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http://www.wmur.com/article/farmers-almanac-calls-for-cold-snowy-winter-for-northeast/12006890
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They claimed the same for us last winter, weren’t even close.
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The pine trees around here have pine cones like bananas. Limbs are loaded and bent down.not sure what that means ?
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I was looking at my apple trees yesterday, this is the third year in a row with a branches breaking crop.
Haven't been up around the oaks yet.
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Well, I was spreading 2016 campaign promises the other day (steer and bull poo) and seen a hornets nest a long ways up an electrical tower.
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Well, I was spreading 2016 campaign promises the other day (steer and bull poo) and seen a hornets nest a long ways up an electrical tower.
My grandfather is a bee keeper and he swears by this. The higher up it is the colder it will be. Who knows but all the snow we were supposed to get this last winter ended up being rain this last spring. With the rainfall accumulation we got during the spring and early summer we would've gotten over 10 feet of snow. Either way I'm ready! Did I mention the geese are already flocking up and flying in V formation.
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Geese are flocking, acorns dropping, leaves turning. I'm ready for snowmobiling, 4 face cord of wood, need more.
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Well, I was spreading 2016 campaign promises the other day (steer and bull poo) and seen a hornets nest a long ways up an electrical tower.
My grandfather is a bee keeper and he swears by this. The higher up it is the colder it will be. Who knows but all the snow we were supposed to get this last winter ended up being rain this last spring. With the rainfall accumulation we got during the spring and early summer we would've gotten over 10 feet of snow. Either way I'm ready! Did I mention the geese are already flocking up and flying in V formation.
Yah, I’ve noticed geese here earlier than usual as well.
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I have 7 cords up on pallets drying since last June. This will be my first year with 1.5 year seasoned wood. I will be really interested to see how it burns. Last year my wood was seasoned 6 months. I burned 6.75 cords last winter and the winter before with 6 month seasoned wood. That was down from 12-13 cords of unseasoned wood that I used to burn in the old hardy h4. I split a piece of oak the other day which had the bark falling off, is dark gray/ black on the ends and very cracked. It metered at 35% mc on the fresh split!!!! The ends measured 22%. Wow! Even the maple was only down to only 25%. This was measured with the 4 prong meter that came with the g200. Its a nice meter but damn is it accurate? The wood all has the bark fall off and has that loud crack when banged togeather.
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Oak takes forever to season.
The supplied meter seems to read the same as a General meter I have. SO either it’s pretty accurate or both my meters are off the same amount which is possible just not probable.
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I too have a general meter. I should try that but I bet just like you it will be the same. I'll be interested to see how it burns this year being seasoned 1.5 years. I have no doubt I could heat this 220 year old 2800 sqft house with a g100 on <25% mc wood with 12 hour loading.
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Same here, pretty sure a G100 would do just my house, however if we get any -40 polar vortexes might be out loading it more than I would care for.
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Am hoping to load very little this year, last year was brutal.
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For you guys it was, I think we had one morning in December it was -13 but it was dead calm, so it didn’t feel anywhere near that cold. Rest of the winter was pretty mild, maybe only burned one tank of gas in the plow truck rest of the winter around the farm. Fed cows in the barn more than I have any other winter as the fields were just too sloppy most of the time.
I counted tonight, I have 2 cords in the large racks I’ve been building, have four of those, I have materials for at least 2 more, probably four more if I want to cut another auger truck up. Have 6 large tote cages filled, those hold a 1/3 of a cord each. Have four small ones filled, thats another cord, then I have all the plastic tanks screwed to pallets and thats roughly another cord and a half. So not quite 7 cords in racks or totes, haven’t made much of a dent in the pile either, its starting to cool off here and the wife asked me to get more cages ready, she doesn’t mind filling the cages, but much prefers the racks I build as you can step clear thru em, she won’t fill the plastic tubs though, she’s too short to reach bottom and got real tired of using a broom handle to scoot wood around ;D Personally I can chuck it in one of the plastic totes and rarely have to touch it again. Goes back to the days of loading trailers with square bales by myself, when the loft floor is 8 foot of the ground and then you have 15 or 20 layers of hay, you really don’t want to climb down every 5 or 10 bales, got pretty good at dropping them from a considerable height and having them land in place.
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Wasn't really the weather, it's the 20 cord I went through. Won't be long before I fire up to heat the shop.
I think i fired mid September last year.
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I'll be interested to see Coolidge if you nailed your issue with the floor, remind me what you found again with it?
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Too be honest I am not totally shure what I did was the problem, but everything pointed to it.
I did find some moisture between the slab and Insulation, thermal imaging showed much cooler slab temps in the back half of the slab
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Yeah, that's why I will be interested to see. I think it was because any water trapped between the slab and vapor barrier would dry quickly I would think with the heat of the slab unless it was constantly being replaced by more ground water.
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I have 7 cords up on pallets drying since last June. This will be my first year with 1.5 year seasoned wood. I will be really interested to see how it burns. Last year my wood was seasoned 6 months. I burned 6.75 cords last winter and the winter before with 6 month seasoned wood. That was down from 12-13 cords of unseasoned wood that I used to burn in the old hardy h4. I split a piece of oak the other day which had the bark falling off, is dark gray/ black on the ends and very cracked. It metered at 35% mc on the fresh split!!!! The ends measured 22%. Wow! Even the maple was only down to only 25%. This was measured with the 4 prong meter that came with the g200. Its a nice meter but damn is it accurate? The wood all has the bark fall off and has that loud crack when banged togeather.
The meter I have says the only way to get an accurate reading is to measure the moisture right away after a split on the split face of the log. This is the way I alsways try and take my readings now. If I don't I usually try and add about 10% moisture from the end of the log reading.