gandgracing, how many times do you have to load your stove? I've been loading mine 3 times a day, it's not very cold out yet, I'm a little concerned when it gets below zero It's not going to burn all night. Although I'm burning soft wood right now, saving my birch and maple for when it gets cold. Does anyone have experience with the shaver165 in cold climates?Expected burn times etc.? Will birch and maple burn considerably longer than pine,poplar,cottonwood?
Yoda, try this link for BTU's in different woods
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/W/AE_wood_heat_value_BTU.htmlthree times a day may not be excessive if you are heating a large area...most foks around me (southern ontario canada) get by on two fill ups a day in the dead of winter
what you call "fill" and what others consider "fill" may be different things
and teh area you heat may be more or less
my house is a story and a half older (100 year) brick home although i have reinsulated and added on to the old shack a time or two it is what i would consider an average insulated home
now it comes in at about 1900 square feet with upstairs and a full basement we heat this to 72 all winter plus domestic hot water and a 30 x 40 is kept above freezing (around 50) we do this on 2 fill ups a day (my fill up is normally what doesn't spill out of a wheel barrow) and i burn mostly dead elm trees, dried 2 years that have around 20 million BTU per cord
here in Ontario the government heat aheet says it takes on average to heat an "older ontario home of average size" (not sure what average means) about 100,000,000 BTU a heat season if you look at white pine on the chart that would work out to about 10 cords a year..if youhad black locust it would only be about 5 cords
an if you compare your pine to birch and maple you will see there is quite a bit of difference in usable BTUs
i hope the link works and it helps you understand better the heat value in your wood