[richyrich7]

How much wood do you need to store for a log burner to take you through the winter ?? had a guess at about 4 cubic yards of logs.

[SnooziSuzi]

how big is the burner?  the larger the burner the more it will take, but if it's large it will be more economical as smaller one's tend to need more stocking up to keep them hot.

Don't know on the math of it all tho  :?

[agapanthus]

4 cubic yards of logs.

how many is that :?  :?  :?  :oops:

[richyrich7]

4 cubic yards of logs.

how many is that :?  :?  :?  :oops:

Lots    

It's a 7.5kw log burner Snoozi

[agapanthus]

4 cubic yards of logs.

how many is that :?  :?  :?  :oops:

Lots    

Cool!!!!!    

[Yorkie]

Cool!!!!!    

Surely that should be,

Hot!!!!!    

[Poolfield2]

Bad news is that when we were relying on wood as our only heat source used in an 8Kw woodburner, we used 1.25 tons in 6 weeks in the coldest part of the winter. We had 3 deliveries plus some from our demolition/renovation work in one winter.

A bonus is you get mighty warm cutting and heaving it around  

[Trillium]

We call them either face cords - 4ft high x 1 ft wide x 8 ft long  or
bush cords  4ft high x 4 ft wide x 8 ft long.

We use close to one bush cord a winter, but it's not our primary heating source. A friend has a wood burning furnace and uses 4-6 bush cords per winter. Yes, this is a lot of wood    All depends on how cold your winter is, and ours gets pretty cold for a long time.

[richyrich7]

I'll keep chopping then  

Fortunately it's not our only heatsource, but last year it more or less kept the whole house bearable if not warm, living room was just plain hot    mind you I think we must have got through a 100 broken pallets but they burn real fast.

[Poolfield2]

The pallets are scary, they pop and bang! Do you go skip dipping for wood?

We have been cutting up a fallen apple tree and a branch off a chestnut that came down in a storm recently and I have the 2 old metal oil tanks full of wood again. It's a good feeling knowing we have dry wood ready.

Our youngest son has just returned from Peru and has invited 6 friends to stay and they were cold so they've started on my wood pile already :shock:

[Trillium]

Pallets are usually soft wood which contain lots of resin which is what you hear popping, along with moisture. They also burn fast for that reason - they have their own accelerant    Big problem with skids and soft wood is that all that resin turns into creosote which gums up your chimney and requires frequent brushing to avoid chimney fires (and mega insurance rate hikes).
Richy, try to get some sort of fan system going when you're using your stove/burner to push the excessive heat out of that one room into others. First thing we did was to install ceiling fans, and also have a special heat-propelled fan that sits on the stove to push the heat around.

We use only hardwood which is over 1 yr dry; we get a good hot long burn out of it. Only softwood we use is startup kindling.

[matron]

We currently have approx 10 of the ton builders bags of logs for our 2 log burners but we are always on the look out for more. On Sunday we collected a beech tree trunk (just cut into trunk rounds) which we had 'won' on ebay. OH has made a log splitter that attaches to his mini digger and uses the hydrolics - just push a lever and it slices through the wood. Mind you, you won't need to light the log burner because the chopping will keep you warm.    

[Trillium]

It's true, matron, chopping wood heats you twice, sometimes three times    

[poultrygeist]

Something very primal about chopping wood too  :viking:

I've been stripped down to t shirt in the depths of winter before now after 10 minutes of sawing and chopping. All by hand. And then you go indoors and have to open a window to cool down while everyone else complains  :roll:

Rob

[Larkshall]

We call them either face cords - 4ft high x 1 ft wide x 8 ft long  or
bush cords  4ft high x 4 ft wide x 8 ft long.

We use close to one bush cord a winter, but it's not our primary heating source. A friend has a wood burning furnace and uses 4-6 bush cords per winter. Yes, this is a lot of wood    All depends on how cold your winter is, and ours gets pretty cold for a long time.

We just referred to "Cords", 4ft x 4ft x 8ft. 4 cu yds seems a bit over the top (nearly 23 cord), at prices these days it may be cheaper to use oil or gas. I don't think you would need that much. I have around 3 cord at present with another 5 or 6 cord available when I can extract it from the heap of brush, dirt and trees (about 12ft high and 50ft dia.). I shall have to learn to drive the 8ton Hitachi digger to pull it out. I have driven a 4 tonner but my mate sold that.

If you are using an open fire, don't burn wood on a firestool or bars. Always burn the wood on a bed of ash, this slows down the burning rate and produces a steady heat. I made a stainless steel pan to fit the hearth and hold the ashes. When it is cleaned out part of the ash is left in the pan.