Wednesday, June 10, 2009

firewood

Back when I was a kid I had to cut firewood all the time. We only had a wood stove. Most of our wood was Black Locus, which is actually considered a good burning wood. However, it doesn’t really split cleanly so much as it tears and shreds when you take an axe to it. That and the pitch all over it.
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  1. Samuel MancillJune 10, 2009 at 4:19 PM

    We had this big old Schrader fireplace that we replaced eventually with a smaller modern one of a brand I don’t remember. The new stove makes the same or more heat and burns half the wood, which is nice since I’m here, my brother is busy, and my parents are getting too old to deal with wood. We scavenge wood all over, some drift logs from nearby rivers, various friends in community who take down trees, and permits to go cut up leftovers from clear cuts. It’d be wonderful if it was all alder or fir, but there has been a lot of Spruce and Pine and that stuff is hard to split. Also, wet maple cut too thick splits cleanly but is so hard it’s difficult to get into it.
    And the unloading, my parents seem to think we need to move the woodpiles around the yard at least twice a year. We’d usually stock up 5-10 cords for the winter. Its unfortunately heavy.

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  2. Chopper DaveJune 10, 2009 at 4:21 PM

    ***The new stove makes the same or more heat and burns half the wood***

    I don’t believe you. My buddy Thermodynamics’ objects as well.

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  3. AnonymousJune 10, 2009 at 4:23 PM

    I'm pretty sure he means thermal efficiency, dave...

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  4. Samuel MancillJune 10, 2009 at 4:24 PM

    It’s smaller. Less wood fits in it. It circulates air somehow instead of vomiting it all out of the chimney. I suppose it makes half the heat in absolute amounts, just a higher percentage of it gets to the house compared to the old stove.

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  5. Adam MeyerJune 10, 2009 at 4:25 PM

    Same heat, more efficient distribution and circulation you bastard. :P

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  6. Samuel MancillJune 10, 2009 at 4:26 PM

    Yeah, dont argue with me, I’ll sic Adam on you. Also, I believe you have my apostrophe.

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  7. Adam MeyerJune 10, 2009 at 4:32 PM

    Ah, my parents have a nice franklin stove. Great for winter. I even enjoyed chopping wood. But I hated going into the forest to gather the firewood. All the loading and unloading. Ugh. We always had tons of oak and fir trees.

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  8. AnonymousJune 11, 2009 at 10:17 AM

    Wow, someone was very busy.

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