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BowEd:
Many other things contribute to being efficient burning wood such as properly insulated homes/good windows.Makes for a cooler house in the summer too.I heat 1800 square feet so I could say normally in this paticular house to be enough that 1.5 cords per 900 square feet per year will get me by for a normal winter where I live now.Remembering that every winter is not the same though too.It helps knowing how much wood to split up as I don't like to split up more than 1 year in advance amount of wood.Now that's not a concern with only osage as it does'nt rot but for other whitewoods it does.A person needs to have at least a 1/4" thick stove walls with a firebrick lined box to burn osage only alone as it burns very very hot and coals up a very long time also.I'd say it's the next thing to burning coal really.A nice medium is to burn it with whitewoods.My whitewoods are hickory/oak/and elm which ever is handiest.
I keep a total of 6 cords of wood ready to burn come september normally.My stove wood is on rotation.One stack side by side to the other.Each side is 3 cords.1 half 1 year or 3 cords.New wood or another 3 cords is replaced into the previous year to keep the rotation going while letting it dry for a year before using it then.Another precaution is accomplished doing things this way that if by some unlucky senario that I get injured I have a years worth of firewood ready leaving me enough time to heal up.A pic of what I mean.I call the stacking a rick rack style.It'll stand on it's own and not bow the fencing side walls any and get more then enough proper air flow through out the year to season properly.I may have drifted this subject to the camp fire thread....lol,but am happy with and willing to share the way I do things here.

A cord is 128 cubic feet.4'by4'by8'

gfugal:

--- Quote from: BowEd on January 29, 2018, 12:44:38 pm ---
A cord is 128 cubic feet.4'by4'by8'

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Looks like a beacon of minas tirith from Lord of The Rings (yes my youth and nerdiness is showing).

Would be a shame if if it went up in flames  ::) >:D (=)

Springbuck:
"OK but then your not here to help me take it out of the bush  :D"

Well, I hope you know I am not really scolding you.  I do get jealous at times.  I'll never be able to buy a stave unless it's a board, and, honestly, I never get around to the wood I do have anymore.  But, I'm still jealous every time people talk about osage, mulberry, oceanspray, yew, hickory, etc....

And I would help you, but it's a long way from here to your house.

Springbuck:

--- Quote from: gfugal on January 29, 2018, 12:05:04 pm ---Who knew there was so much to burning wood haha. You learn all sorts of things on this site. Sounds like crap wood is crap wood, even for burning, which is a shame, unless you just want a fast hot fire.

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Yeah, with my tree business, every time I cut a black locust, neighbors come out of the woodwork to haul the logs away for me because that stuff burn like coal.  But a decent stave from a tree grown in the open and riddled with borer holes is about one in every 8th tree or so, and I rarely work on locusts.    Same with the Gambel's and bonneville oak, and the canyon maples.  There is about one good stave on every MOUNTAIN for those woods.

Marc St Louis:
Actually I don't have to worry about the roof catching fire anytime since it's a metal roof.  This year is a snow poor year though with less than a foot on the ground right now.  Wind can whip heat out of a house pretty fast that's for sure but a good snow cover on the ground actually helps to keep heat in the house, I kind of miss it for that.  Hardly get creosote in my chimney with this new system we have, very efficient.  Wouldn't be able to keep a house warm without insulation up here, never mind the fact that it's part of the building code.  It's no problem keeping a house warm during the day but the nights are too long to use anything else but the densest wood we have up here.  I have 3 woodsheds for the house and 1 for the shop.  After 40+ years of heating with wood my motto is it's always best to be prepared
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I'm going to move this to Around The Campfire

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