Wednesday, January 15, 2025

I can't see a healthy stack of firewood without involuntarily thinking "wealth!"

 


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  1. the way my father-in-law saw it that might get you thru january. 'ol Bud liked to be prepared.

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  2. I'm no expert though I've been heating my home with firewood for 12 years, but why is so little of this split

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    1. my thought exactly. It ain't "Wealth" until it is split into useable sizes and seasoned properly.

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  3. The split stack is closer to the house.

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  4. Easier to split when dried out, something to do in winter months. Went thru 3 fireplace crates (with bottom screens to hold embers) when having a house with a fireplace, during a 13 year span.

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    1. Actually not always true. Green wood splits like a dream on super cold days.

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  5. Maybe his fireplace is big enough to handle those unspilt logs.

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  6. looks like conifer wood...uh..low fuel value and short burn. Bigger pieces last longer in the stove. Otherwise, you are fueling every 2 hours and forget over night. But you burn what is available. I had a mixture of hard and soft wood on my farm. Used the hardwood for over night. Best thing, but tough to find now, is coal. That is a good night fuel. but you better have cast iron grate and firebrick walls or it will warp the steel big time. Coal used to be easy and cheap to buy before all this climate hooey, and it was the cat's ass for overnight on those sub zero January nights. BTW...grin...I live in the tropics now with no heating....don't miss it.

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    1. Still using nut coal here,NE APPALACHIA. $240 a ton now. 7 years ago $90 a ton.
      Coal a plenty. Just way more $$$ to burn.
      Chris(CIII)

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  7. Looks about like the winter supply we use. It is wealth, true kind, non taxed to death, nobody got a hand in your wallet. Yeah its work, but you got to work for what you need no matter what, why work for a system designed specifically to relieve you of your wealth you create? Right? Lot of people do not know, the only place wealth comes from is from people who do that work and no place else, almost all accumulations of great wealth is obtained thru various schema created to get that wealth with having to create a penny of it to begin with. Something truly screwed up with that picture.

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  8. This wood looks like pine. When I lived in Pennsylvania and had tons of hard wood to burn, pine was considered garbage and most of us would not allow it in the house. It might be good for a campfire. Now that I live in Colorado, all that is available is pine. UGH!!!

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    1. Same thoughts in North Carolina about hardwood superiority. Pine means fat buildup of creosote in the chimney. To be avoided. Unless that’s all you got. 😃

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  9. White oak, black locust and osage orange are abundant in these parts. No one burns pine except to get the hardwood going.

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