Whew, cook stove wood done

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 12:53 pm

Lot of spitting in that cook stove wood, glad to be done with it.
Now on to the big stuff, shot of the recent lumber pile too.

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 1:15 pm

You're way ahead of me, Pitchy. I know how much sweat that stack represents.
Not much I can do right now as we are in the 90s and chain saws may not be used after 10 a.m. because of the extreme fire danger.
Your lumber pile is to be admired as well -- covered, stickered and drying nicely.

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 1:56 pm

I like, seeing as I rely on wood for my heating (well, recently had a heat exchanger fitted but,,,,), mine is got in in spring, green but stacked on south facing wall so it's dry by september. Mostly birch.

Say, do them boards slide out to acces the fire wood?

N.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:15 pm

Thanks pards, we had the end open but it all wouldn`t fit so had to board up the end.
We can open it after we use some.
Bill thanks, it`s getting dry here now to and i`m going to start getting nervous about fire too.
At least it`s cool though it is 70 today, next week only 60 for highs.
We have a lot of big wood left over from last year so don`t have to much more to get u.
Gotta get ready for anything too come after the election, we will be warm

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:05 pm

I have all my wood in for this winter and almost all my wood stacked outside for next winter. I use wooden pallets laid out between two big maples in my back yard. I have 3 rows of 14" to 16" maple fire wood 4' tall by 30 feet long. Next fall I will put that in my garage I usually don't have much left by spring.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:19 pm

ya know how us winter people are, better safe than sorry.

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:52 pm

I know what you mean. I finished hauling in all the wood I had cut and split in the bush today and I didn't quite fill my 3 rows, I probably have enough, but I'll go back and cut another small one down just to be sure I have enough, hate looking for wood in the spring if I run out.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:11 pm

I gotta have ten cord of big wood for the outdoor stove, the cook stove is for spring and fall before we fire up the main stove.
But if the power goes then it`s the cook stove, the life saver, heat, cook and heat water.

Marvin S · Post by **Marvin S** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:26 pm

Looks like you got it going on. That used be how a man was judged by the size of his wood pile

ollogger · Post by **ollogger** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:35 pm

Yes sir thats a bunch of wood, I know for a fact that some years 10 full cord wouldnt
get ya thru the winter in the upper great lakes country

ollogger

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 6:47 pm

We`ve had some mild winters lately, most winters ten cord barely makes it.
Going to use the cook stove more this year, ya kinda get a good feeling with it.
21 years ago when we moved in this shack that`s the only heat we had, ya find out that they don`t hold a fire very long on dry wood.

Post by **Hobie** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 7:42 pm

I used to mix green and dry wood (mostly oak with some maple and locust) to maintain just the right burn rate and just look forward to timing a good scrub of the stove pipe with the warmest days. Here in VA, you can usually do that. Don't heat with wood now. Wish I did despite the work involved.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 8:01 pm

I won`t burn pine as it really soots things up, we burn dry popular, oak and birch.
Oak holds pretty good but the fire box is dern small in this cook stove.
I`m looking forward to lighting it up though, eggs on one is hard to beat.
This may be our last winter here so i`m going to try and enjoy it.

Malamute · Post by **Malamute** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:14 pm

Nice wood pile! Like the lumber too. I like working with rough cut.

I envy you guys back east with your hardwoods. Pine is about all we can get around here, other than some cottonwood. I've burned cottonwood, I don't care for the smell. The pine sure smells good though! I really like it on cool rainy nights, or the first snows when its wet, or last ones in the spring. The only other wood that smells as good to me was the juniper in Az

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:31 pm

Good! Your done! Now that have all of this free time, get over here and split mine up so I get back to the gunclub.

Your doing what white guys ought to do-------work

Looks nice Pitch! Ain't no grass growing under your azz.

---------------Sixgun

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 11:48 pm

Looks like you're ready for winter Pitchy!

pwl44m · Post by **pwl44m** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:52 am

Thats a chore I don't have anymore after moving. 3 Cords used to do Me very well. I burned Pine ,Cedar, Oak or whatever I could get My hands on. The Pine is what I cleaned My Chimney with, I didn't use it as Nite wood. A lot of People frown on using Green Oak for Nite Logs but it sure lasts all Nite, wake up in the morning and throw some dry wood in and U got a Fire.
U been a busy Boy. My Neighbors in the Hills had a wood cookstove. He cut what He called "cookwood". He would just cut the smaller limbs for that and when He got enough He didn't cut anything smaller than 3 inches, the rest went in the brush pile. Heck it was all Wood to Me and it burned so I cut it small too. I didn't cut twigs mind U.
I have a Propane Heater Here and I sure miss the Wood Heat. Although it was hard work cutting Firewood I enjoyed it.
Perry

M. M. Wright · Post by **M. M. Wright** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:25 am

We heat with wood too even though we have a ground source heat pump. Keeps the electric bill down and is much more dependable. I built this house with native lumber milled here and used 2x6 walls with wet blown cellulose insulation. It's about 3000 square feet and my highest bill for electricity this year was $130. Record average temp here so I'm proud of this set-up. I need to get some more wood in as I don't have a lot cut yet, just what's left over from last year. Plenty down and drying though. Sold a bunch of walnut a couple years ago and still working on those tops.

Wish I had a small band mill as the loggers cut out all the crotches and just left them. I know there is a bunch of good grain in there that someone would love to have for stocks.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:37 am

Thanks guys.
How rude of me not to post a picture of my little sweetheart.

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:42 am

Nice stove Pitchy

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:03 am

Thanks

We have quite a bit of outdoor stove wood left from last year.
The out door stove is forced air, built by a local guy years ago.
It works real good, keeps the room temp exact all winter.

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:10 am

Pitchy wrote:This may be our last winter here so i`m going to try and enjoy it.

What is with that????

jdad · Post by **jdad** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:16 am

When we lived in the Sierra's I had to put up wood also. One of our neighbors was the foreman for a big housing developer, in the foothills below. There were always "private" piles of felled Black Oak, for friends, to cut up.

I never minded the cutting and splitting, but boy did I hate the stacking.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:17 am

Old Time Hunter wrote:
Pitchy wrote:This may be our last winter here so i`m going to try and enjoy it.
What is with that????

Well one of two things, rapture or we are thinking of putting the place on the market and moving out west.

Check out this old waffle iron boys, first thing i`m gonna make on the stove.

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:25 am

Think I would clean the rust out of it first though.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:38 am

Old Time Hunter wrote:Think I would clean the rust out of it first though.

Naw i`ll just use WD as a cooking spray.

Birdman · Post by **Birdman** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:35 pm

That's a dandy stove and enough wood to cook all winter. I noticed you also have yur snow scoop in place next to the wood pile. How old is the stove?

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:42 am

Birdman wrote:That's a dandy stove and enough wood to cook all winter. I noticed you also have yur snow scoop in place next to the wood pile. How old is the stove?

I`m not sure how old it is, it`s not a repo so guessing it`s pretty old.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:18 am

Hmmmmm

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:32 am

Pitchy, my mouth is watering

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:33 am

Butter and maple syrup on mine please

walks with gun · Post by **walks with gun** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:59 am

Does that thing double as a bed warmer or bun warmer?

pwl44m · Post by **pwl44m** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:12 am

Pitchy !! Ur Cruel ! It looks like You have it seasoned well. Think I'll go make Myself some toast & eggs. Or I could have Pan Cake since I don't have a Waffle Iron.
Perry

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:36 pm

pwl44m wrote:Pitchy !! Ur Cruel ! It looks like You have it seasoned well. Think I'll go make Myself some toast & eggs. Or I could have Pan Cake since I don't have a Waffle Iron.
Perry

Oh don`t worry bro it wasn`t without trials and tribulations, burned a few and several stuck and i had to go the garage for the steel brush, but in the end we ate well.

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:41 pm

Is that the syrup warming up too I can see?

N

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:59 pm

Nath wrote:Is that the syrup warming up too I can see?

N

Paladin · Post by **Paladin** » Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:07 pm

Thanks for the post, some rather fond memories even with some of the blister I remember.

COSteve · Post by **COSteve** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 7:52 am

Even though we have central gas heat, we like a good fire to cheer the place up. Around here I find a mix of Pinon pine and Oak works well. Aspen is a total waste of time. As it's not our main heating source, we usually get by on 2-3 cords per season.

piller · Post by **piller** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:51 am

What do you use to split the wood? For that much, I assume you use a gasoline powered hydraulic splitter. I sure wouldn't want to split that much wood by swinging a splitting maul.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:39 pm

piller wrote:What do you use to split the wood? For that much, I assume you use a gasoline powered hydraulic splitter. I sure wouldn't want to split that much wood by swinging a splitting maul.

Yepper a hyd. wood splitter.

Lot of splitting alright.

WCF3030 · Post by **WCF3030** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:51 pm

Looks good.

I can certainly appreciate the work.
I've 5 cord done and 5 more to have done by the end of the month.