Heating your house

[AmericanTurf]

Don't let the liberals know!! Haha!!!! They will make a new tax on firewood heat! Sad but true.

 

[Bison]

Been burning wood only for the last 27 years, during the winter 24/7.
I burn about 8-9 cords a year,..have not swept the chimney in 3 years.
The furnace gets only used for backup.

 

[reynoldston]

Been burning wood only for the last 27 years, during the winter 24/7.
I burn about 8-9 cords a year,..have not swept the chimney in 3 years.
The furnace gets only used for backup.

Are you burning 8 to 9 full cords or face cords big differance? I am heating my house 24/7 with around 12 face cords. What type of unit are you heating with? 3 years without cleaning your chimney I would say you are pushing it for a chimney fire unless I am missing something here or are you useing a outside wood furnace.

 

[Bison]

Are you burning 8 to 9 full cords or face cords big differance? I am heating my house 24/7 with around 12 face cords. What type of unit are you heating with? 3 years without cleaning your chimney I would say you are pushing it for a chimney fire unless I am missing something here or are you useing a outside wood furnace.

Full cords, the house is 2200 ft single level.
i am using a cast iron Yotul 600 indoor woodstove.( this stove is hungry)
The firewood i use is beetle killed jackpine an burns clean as a wistle. i have only 1/2 an oil barrel of ashes per winter.
I check the chimney once in fall before fireseason and it is always clean.
To keep a clean chimney it helps to have a roaring hot fire for a few minutes at least once daily.

pic, at least 8 of these loads.
..the stove

 

[mowerguy]

Okay what is the difference between a full cord and a face cord? Or how do you measure each?

 

[Parkmower]

Okay what is the difference between a full cord and a face cord? Or how do you measure each?

I believe a full cord is two face cords.

 

[reynoldston]

A full cord is 8'X8'X4' , a face cord is 8'X4' by how ever long you cut the wood as a rule in inches. The average around where I live is 16 inches but I cut mine 19 inches.
It all dependents on how long of a peace of wood your stove will burn. Anyone one selling fire wood in this part of the country ( northern NY) sells hard wood and in face cords. Hard wood and soft wood doesn't mean anything as far as the hardness of the wood goes but the type of tree it comes from. Some pines can be hard (soft wood) and poplar is soft (hard wood).

 

[okiepc]

Here wood is measured in a rick, this is the best definition I have ever found about cord and rick.




A cord of wood equals 128 (4x4x8) cubic feet of wood (stacked tightly). The farmers almanac describes a cord as a stack of wood 4x4x8 with stacked to provide an occasional hole for a squirrel to pass through but not the cat chasing it. A cord of wood has a legal definition. Depending on local (state) laws, the stacking requirements may be codified.

A rick, rack, or face cord is only a part of a cord of wood, has no legal definition, and varies locally. A rick or rack is the amount of firewood stacked by 4' by 8' by one row of the length of the stick (thus if each stick is 24" then this rick would be 1/2 cord, but try 14" or 17"). A face cord is the same but the lengths of wood are such that several stacks will eventually add up to a cord (2 stacks of a 24" rick would equal 1 cord, as would 3 stacks of 16", 4 stacks of 12").

 

[reynoldston]

I guess I don't know all there is to know as to what a cord of wood is. When I sold my standing woods to a person that was selling fire wood he payed me by the pulp cord as to what ever that is? He was taking out the wood by the logs and then would run it through a fire wood processor.