Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => General Outdoor Furnace Discussion => Topic started by: 6pacmac on April 07, 2014, 06:36:19 PM
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... of wood. Well almost. I'm down to about 1/10 th of a cord. Anybody else down to the scraps wood wise? I gotta lot of catch up to do for next season :P
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... of wood. Well almost. I'm down to about 1/10 th of a cord. Anybody else down to the scraps wood wise? I gotta lot of catch up to do for next season :P
yup i am, unless i want to tap into next seasons wood..Probably will..I burn until almost Memorial weekend..Depend on the temps..
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Me too, Going to have to start with next years.
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Once the piles gone it's gone till next winter.
Have too much to do yet before planting starts. Just got the new motor in the skid steer tonight so haven't been cutting any wood anyways.
Staying warm enough here now not burning a lot of wood anyways, once it's gone I'll turn the nat gas back on to the furnace and let it get a little use.
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I have 4 cords left of next years wood. I had about 8 stacked but I burnt half of it. Time to get busy again!
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I have been knocking down dead trees, and gathering dead stuff off the ground, to finish out the season.
This was the first winter in a long time that I went out and cut wood in the snow. I had a fence row that needed cleaned up, so I took my garden tractor out there on top of my ridge and cleaned off the snow before I started dropping trees. I wound up with almost 10 cord of wood before I finished up, also took down some random cherry trees along a fence row. So I have about 15 cord stacked in my pile for next winter.
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Of the 8 cord I had for this year, I still have about a cord and half to go. With these warmer temps were finally receiving it takes 4 to 5 pieces of 4 inch diameter sized wood to go 12 hours so the usage has decreased substantially. Roger
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Nice setup JD Jim :thumbup:
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My original stack was gone in January. I way under-estimated the BTU value of the wood I had stacked. BIG TIME! But, that's the cool thing about burning a conventional stove. I'da been SCREWED if I had a gasser. I'm burning some seriously green stuff and still don't have any serious creosote! But, I've also got 10 cords ready for next winter. 10 cords of REAL BTU firewood. Last year the best stuff I had was 1.5 cords of Red Oak. Next year, the WORST stuff I have is Cherry!
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Me too..
I am down to burning dogwood. It is pretty good firewood. For some reason I had a die off of dogwoods in about five acres of woods that are in the cow pasture a couple of years ago. I don't know if the cows stomping around in there killed them or what.
It is about hard as a rock and holds fire well. Hated to see them die though, they were pretty in the spring. Some of them were six inch or bigger trees.
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Me too..
I am down to burning dogwood. It is pretty good firewood. For some reason I had a die off of dogwoods in about five acres of woods that are in the cow pasture a couple of years ago. I don't know if the cows stomping around in there killed them or what.
It is about hard as a rock and holds fire well. Hated to see them die though, they were pretty in the spring. Some of them were six inch or bigger trees.
Most likely, one part of of the woods the cows can get into is hard on the tulip poplars, rest of the trees seem to be alright.
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Dam, I have about 4 cord on the other side of the field but cant get to it now, guess it will have to wait until July or Aug to get split.
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It sure has been a hard winter on the wood pile. I'm down to scraps as well.
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I guess misery loves company. My wood pile is as low as it ever has been in spring. Still getting below freezing at night around here. Usually burn till June, maybe I will just go year around this year. The kids are getting big enough we use a rudiculas amount of hot water.
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Yeah I'm right with you guys, last row in the shed of this years stuff, temps are up here as of late and thanks for that! Will be shutting down as soon as things start to dry up but that will probably take just about all of what I have left for wood. Been a brutal winter, will be cutting wood late for next season, don't like being behind, happy spring to everyone!
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My first year with an OWB. Actually only online since mid January. I had a few cords but went through that and have been supplementing with pallets and scraps from work.
I have a bunch of dead ash on my property but could only get to a little bit of it this winter because of all the snow. Now it's too wet. Hopefully I can gather a bunch before the mosquitos get too bad.
Yep definitely down to the nitty gritty. Tonight I cut up some box elder that the County left when doing some clearing in the area.
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Hear yah about the wet, have over two dozen dead ash down, almost got the Polaris Ranger stuck in the woods the other day. Hopefully it drys out soon so I can at least get some of them out before I get busy with planting. Did get the new motor in the tracked skid steer so at least I'll have that to use when the time comes.
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I have a skid loader also mlappin, no tracks on mine though, they are nice when you can get in there. I actually plowed some snow to get to some trees but was surprised to find that under the snow the ground was still soft and had trouble getting to them anyway.
I'm hoping to get in there with a 4 wheeler and small trailer soon. It's along a river floodplain though.
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This winter took a real toll on my firewood. Down to the last few loaders worth for the house.
Today I cut and split ( with my processor ) some ash logs that were stack since October. Put a loader full inside the sugar camp to dry the snow melt off the bark and started burning it today to make syrup. Mix one or two dry pieces with 8 to 10 of these and away we go, burnt great for syrup. Once it was roaring just kept tossing it in.
My older neighbor, a farmer has told me that when they were growing up and wood became short his dad would send them out to cut down an ash tree, that it could be burnt green. They would not have had air tight stoves then anyways, so like my evaporator away it goes.
Bob
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I have a skid loader also mlappin, no tracks on mine though, they are nice when you can get in there. I actually plowed some snow to get to some trees but was surprised to find that under the snow the ground was still soft and had trouble getting to them anyway.
I'm hoping to get in there with a 4 wheeler and small trailer soon. It's along a river floodplain though.
After using the tracked one from everything from clearing scrap metal, to clearing fencerows, cutting wood, pushing snow and feeding the beef cattle in knee deep mud I'd never have a wheeled one. Only ever had it hung up once, the hired man was driving along a fresh trench and got to close, one track slipped in and she was all done, ain't gonna move when that track ain't even touching dirt. Floats across snow as well, I thought this winter if I drove several times up to the trees I wanted to drop I could walk in the track fairly easy, nope was still a slog thru it with a chainsaw as the skid steer didn't pack the snow enough to walk on.
Buying the skid steer is the cheap part, the attachments get salty. Have a grapple and rock bucket which I bought, a splitter and forks that I built and can borrow a hydraulic post hole digger for it anytime I want it. Looking at getting a hydraulic Bush Hog for the front next for cutting brush back in the woods and along fencerows.
Kinda like Harley Davidson stuff, the bike is cheap, the genuine HD chaps, boots, jacket, sunglasses, clothes, chrome, etc is where you need the second mortgage.
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Here in Nova Scotia, its been a brutal winter, worst one in 20 yrs,and we still have snow,however its melting now,i used about 12 cords I guess, not much left now,gotta start srownging for a lil wood property ,as I still have about three weeks yet to burn,anyhow hopefully after I install my mixn valves and a few other lil things ,the furnace will be alittle more efficient,maybe 9 next yr if im lucky,anyhow that's what we burned up here...thanks again for advice and good reading th epast few months,site is very addicting....wify makes fun of me all the time for lookin at this site too much,lol
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I have a skid loader also mlappin, no tracks on mine though, they are nice when you can get in there. I actually plowed some snow to get to some trees but was surprised to find that under the snow the ground was still soft and had trouble getting to them anyway.
I'm hoping to get in there with a 4 wheeler and small trailer soon. It's along a river floodplain though.
After using the tracked one from everything from clearing scrap metal, to clearing fencerows, cutting wood, pushing snow and feeding the beef cattle in knee deep mud I'd never have a wheeled one. Only ever had it hung up once, the hired man was driving along a fresh trench and got to close, one track slipped in and she was all done, ain't gonna move when that track ain't even touching dirt. Floats across snow as well, I thought this winter if I drove several times up to the trees I wanted to drop I could walk in the track fairly easy, nope was still a slog thru it with a chainsaw as the skid steer didn't pack the snow enough to walk on.
Buying the skid steer is the cheap part, the attachments get salty. Have a grapple and rock bucket which I bought, a splitter and forks that I built and can borrow a hydraulic post hole digger for it anytime I want it. Looking at getting a hydraulic Bush Hog for the front next for cutting brush back in the woods and along fencerows.
Kinda like Harley Davidson stuff, the bike is cheap, the genuine HD chaps, boots, jacket, sunglasses, clothes, chrome, etc is where you need the second mortgage.
Yep the attachments are what gets ya. I only have forks and a 6' bucket. Would love to have a grapple, and have been looking for a post hole auger. I have seen those steel tracks that kind of go around the existing tires, do you know if they are any good.
That splitter sounds very cool, any pics?
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Steel tracks help floatation in dirt but anything icy I would forget about it.
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Not totally out but down to junk wood semi green slab wood and all the dead branched from last summers storms sure glad the bitter cold is gone was using about a 3/4 of a cord every two weeks during that bitter cold snaps!
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Steel tracks help floatation in dirt but anything icy I would forget about it.
I would think steel tracks would be better than rubber on ice.
If its a sheet of ice I still prefer my rubber tracks over tires.
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Yep the attachments are what gets ya. I only have forks and a 6' bucket. Would love to have a grapple, and have been looking for a post hole auger. I have seen those steel tracks that kind of go around the existing tires, do you know if they are any good.
That splitter sounds very cool, any pics?
Neighbor has the steel tracks for his for over ten years and still uses em so I guess he likes em.
Logsplitter: http://s160.photobucket.com/user/Marty_Lappin/slideshow/Facebook/Logsplitter (http://s160.photobucket.com/user/Marty_Lappin/slideshow/Facebook/Logsplitter)
Working now on modifying the splitter so on easier stuff I have a four way splitter, get into the ugly stuff and raise the wedge so it's more like whats in the pictures now.
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I was beggining to worry about how much wood I would get cut this spring but then a guy at work said he had two big trees he was having cut down. I hauled 4 full trailer loads home and this is the pile I got from it. I'm guessing there's about 4 cords there? It's all cut to different lengths so it wont stack real good but I didn't even have to start my saw for all of this! He told me this was Chinese Elm but I really have no clue.
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Yep the attachments are what gets ya. I only have forks and a 6' bucket. Would love to have a grapple, and have been looking for a post hole auger. I have seen those steel tracks that kind of go around the existing tires, do you know if they are any good.
That splitter sounds very cool, any pics?
Neighbor has the steel tracks for his for over ten years and still uses em so I guess he likes em.
Logsplitter: http://s160.photobucket.com/user/Marty_Lappin/slideshow/Facebook/Logsplitter (http://s160.photobucket.com/user/Marty_Lappin/slideshow/Facebook/Logsplitter)
Working now on modifying the splitter so on easier stuff I have a four way splitter, get into the ugly stuff and raise the wedge so it's more like whats in the pictures now.
Thanks for the pics, Marty.
That is quite the splitter. I recently ran across the commercial version of that and the videos were pretty impressive. It showed it splitting and stacking into a huge pile all in one motion.
It doesn't look all that complicated to build either. I have a lot to do this year but it might make a great winter project when I get the OWB lines run to the pole barn workshop. I may wan't to contact you for advise when I think I may be ready to build one.
That Bobcat looks like a Tiger with those big wide tracks. I had the Gehl 6635 out this evening fixing the driveway but still can't get it to the woods.
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Thanks, I've been real happy with it, wouldn't change anything other than having a four way.
I either drag the logs out of the woods or carry them with the grapple. Cut em up then use the grapple to load my Uncles 5 yard dump truck. Bring that up and dump it in a pile, then start splitting. Place the splitter over the piece of wood, put just a little pressure on it pick it up then turn and split it over the pile.
I'll try to post some pictures of the four way when I'm done.
Didn't have that much in it, the 8x18.75 channel iron was drops from Alro Steel so a small discount, rest of the stuff I mostly already had.
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Yep the attachments are what gets ya. I only have forks and a 6' bucket. Would love to have a grapple, and have been looking for a post hole auger. I have seen those steel tracks that kind of go around the existing tires, do you know if they are any good.
That splitter sounds very cool, any pics?
Neighbor has the steel tracks for his for over ten years and still uses em so I guess he likes em. Nice setup. Looks like it would be real easy to use.
Logsplitter: http://s160.photobucket.com/user/Marty_Lappin/slideshow/Facebook/Logsplitter (http://s160.photobucket.com/user/Marty_Lappin/slideshow/Facebook/Logsplitter)
Working now on modifying the splitter so on easier stuff I have a four way splitter, get into the ugly stuff and raise the wedge so it's more like whats in the pictures now.