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Kolohe
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You don’t have any trees around you, but solar’s a bad option?
I live in a valley that doesn't see the sun for about 1/3 to 1/2 the year.
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I live in a valley that doesn't see the sun for about 1/3 to 1/2 the year.
Screamfeeder
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Yeah...but 80 (even 8-10) cords of wood a day is pretty much impossible unless you're trying to heat a stadium.
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Kolohe
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It was an extreme exaggeration with a number so high that I thought the exaggeration was obvious enough to avoid dumb questions.
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Screamfeeder
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Man I've seen dudes calling those bundles you buy at the store "cords" so I was just checking.
What kind of wood is it? You have a choice of hard vs soft because I know some stoves will output much better heat with different kinds.
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Kolohe
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I have Carhart boxers on, a gun under the desk and a can of chew with a splash of whiskey in my pocket. I know what a cord of wood is....
The wood I got for Christmas is pine, pretty sure it's ponderosa pine. I could only find one place in town that would let me come and load up my car myself and this is all I saw at the lot. No idea what else is available around here.
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Eastern or Northern Idaho. Boise area is overun with Cali/Wash/Ore people fleeing the messes they created. Eastern Idaho you get the Tetons and as a plus a front row seat to the planet's most epic explosion if the Yellowstone caldera ever pops.
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Kiroy
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Softwood like pine is great kindling and it burns hotter but unless you want to do a chimney sweep half way through the season I'd be a little weary of burning strait softwood due to the supposed extra creosote buildup - some old timers say that's a myth though. We have oak coming out our ass up here so that's all we burn.
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Creosote buildup is a real thing. I kept my stacks pretty clean...or so I thought. One day it all lit and took off. I closed it down and tossed all the fire safety sticks I had in there and it was still woofing 02 through the stack. My house was log oiled, and the oil on the wall near the stove melted. My house definitely would have burned right to the ground if I didn't have all those safety sticks. Not a myth!
Kiroy
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oh I know it's real - it's just does softwood add more at a significantly higher rate than hardwood? A lot of people say yes, some say no.
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Kolohe
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I swept chimneys for a winter to put myself through EMT school, so I got to see both sides of chimney fires (I actually got sent out to fix one that I responded to my first shift doing a ride-along with the fire department). All of the damage that the fire department did/does is to make sure the embers haven't gotten into the walls or attic, but the fire itself is pretty easy to put out with a couple of "chimney bombs". We would take the dry chem used in fire extinguishers and fill up ziplock bags or rubber gloves with it and chuck them down the chimney to put it out. 2 to 4 of them did it every time. No idea how well that would work if you didn't want to get up on the roof. Never tried tossing one in from inside.
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Western 1/3 of WY is incredibly expensive and a fair number of liberals. The eastern 2/3 you most likely would not want to live there where 50mph winds are just a "breezy day" 24 hours a day.
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Borzak
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You can look up btu's for various woods. Hickory is near the top for woods readiably available and various oaks. Pine varies a lot, longleaf pine can very very bad to burn in a fireplace. It used to be tapped to drain for turpentine. Where "lighter pine" comes from and some of it can be too damn hot to put in a fireplace. I order by the chord split and such and it's normally a mix of red and white oak and hickory. Whatever the cutter got to that day.
I've never burned pine other than small pieces of lighter pine to get it going, very small pieces. It can and will pop a lot and I never liked the smell. Woods out west, no idea. Here in the land of pine you can't buy pine that is split etc...it's hauled off for pulpwood for a reason. The chart doesn't have the 4 types of southern yellow pine available in the southeast for a reason. Nobody burns it, except in piles on a logging site.
Getting a chrod of hophornbeam would be a biblical like undertaking lol.
I've never burned pine other than small pieces of lighter pine to get it going, very small pieces. It can and will pop a lot and I never liked the smell. Woods out west, no idea. Here in the land of pine you can't buy pine that is split etc...it's hauled off for pulpwood for a reason. The chart doesn't have the 4 types of southern yellow pine available in the southeast for a reason. Nobody burns it, except in piles on a logging site.
Getting a chrod of hophornbeam would be a biblical like undertaking lol.
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Jesus, I didn't know Ironwood was primo for the woodstove. That shit is all over the west Maui mountains. We used to shut down work for 2 days a year and just mow down all of the areas along the footpath where it was popping up again. All of the Hawaiians would take the kiawe home for BBQs and stuff, but I know multiple coworkers had family that lived upcountry and had woodstoves, but never saw anyone take ironwood home.You can look up btu's for various woods. Hickory is near the top for woods readiably available and various oaks. Pine varies a lot, longleaf pine can very very bad to burn in a fireplace. It used to be tapped to drain for turpentine. Where "lighter pine" comes from and some of it can be too damn hot to put in a fireplace. I order by the chord split and such and it's normally a mix of red and white oak and hickory. Whatever the cutter got to that day.
I've never burned pine other than small pieces of lighter pine to get it going, very small pieces. It can and will pop a lot and I never liked the smell. Woods out west, no idea. Here in the land of pine you can't buy pine that is split etc...it's hauled off for pulpwood for a reason. The chart doesn't have the 4 types of southern yellow pine available in the southeast for a reason. Nobody burns it, except in piles on a logging site.
Getting a chrod of hophornbeam would be a biblical like undertaking lol.
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Out west we don't have access to a lot of hardwood unless you're on the coast. Pine isn't the greatest firewood but there's an infinite supply right out my back door. The only real hardwood that grows here is Ash and there's way less of it than pine.
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Lanx
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you probably have too much winterizing on your plate your first move in year, imo replace the windows during warmer weather and just use this for the winter
edit, you don't even have to use the blow dryer to be honest, that just makes it more "window looking" so it doesn't look like you have plastic over the windows, but does create a very strong barrier
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