gduvic
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Around twenty inches works great in my 1975 Energy King wood furnace.
How long do you cut your wood? POLL
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spydrmonkey
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16" all day long for me. My groundmen yelled up at me when I took it upon myself to fell a few foot longs down to them. It was kinda funny watching my ocd/perfectionalist helper get mad over the 4 inches missing.
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spydrmonkey
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Question to OP or anyone really. Do you find it easier to top the tree and have the ground men chop it up and while they do that cut it up as you climb down or just everyone have at it when the wood is all down?
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my fireplaces range in size from 36" to 54". the big ones can take 24" chunks or stix. I like smaller sized stix for the 36" fireplaces. smaller rooms. so the size I cut is somewhat also mood motivated. and trunk size, use as is, or split... I like and use a lot of the 12"-14" stix, too.
Erik B
ArboristSite Guru
I cut my wood to 12 inches. I can put a piece of 13 to 14 inch length if I put it in from corner to corner
I can fit 24" and try to go around 20" or so. Always end up with some shorties, or I will split the difference once i get close to the end of log and try to make them somewhat even length. I haven't had any yet that were too long and didn't fit...
JeffGu
Antagonist/Heckler
Groundies drag it out of LZ and start limbing/bucking when they're not lowering.
But one strike of the hand saw and its bang on, tried the paint,,found one of these (similar) in the bush works great.
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I remember attending a convention at the Kellogg Center at the University of New Hampshire. Using a wood fireplace, they heated the huge dining room in there that had at least a 30' ceiling and could seat 200 people. The logs were no less than 48" long and I believe they were likely closer to 60". Two men dropped them in, one at a time. There was no shortage of heat.
I wonder if it's still there. Anybody know?
I wonder if it's still there. Anybody know?
My large wood stove will fit up to 22" logs and has almost a 4 cubic foot firebox. But I usually cut most at 18" and some at 16"
sounds cool. wish i saw that.
> The logs were no less than 48" long and I believe they were likely closer to 60".
reminds me of visiting Henry Ford's home at Fair Lane, in Dearborn MI... 60" and larger, the 'stix' (logs) were placed in from behind the front hearth by house staff members. took two!....
I recall that fireplace in New Hampshire very well. It was about 1978 when I was there. Since then, the student union may have been renamed and is no longer the Kellogg center. I haven't been able to nail down a Pic to post here.
The table I sat at was about 30' away from the hearth, and the heat radiated out like a blast furnace. They accepted weekly deliveries of hardwood from some guy with a dump truck. A lot of it was brown and black birch. None was split, and if I remember right they said they paid $150 a load for it. I imagine that's over two cords in a load, but back then, $150 was a good chunk of change. In '77 I could buy unsplit green cordwood for $40 a pickup truck load in Connecticut.
Shagbark
ArboristSite Guru
I used to cut 22". Nothing more aggravating than your 22" log not fitting in your 24" splitter. 20" cures the estimation error and aggravation.
Gugi47
ArboristSite Hit Man
My stove take 22" but I cut 18"
Easy to load the 18"
Easy to load the 18"
My wife is a poll dancer, I never cut my wood.
Mives4510
ArboristSite Lurker
My owb can take 4 ft long logs. I did that last winter loading by hand...... Needless to say this year I built a log splitter and started cutting about 22in and splitting. Much easier to load owb now
Since I'm a scrounge I don't always get to pick sawed lengths but that doesn't keep me from dragin it home and workin it up. If I'm doing my own dropping/bucking I shoot for 18" but As long as it's not longer than my fire box I don't really pay much attention to tell the truth.
My stacks vary from 8"-24".....luckily I'm not anal retentive like some around here who feel the need to measure logs before they saw them as they'd loose there mind looking at my wood pile..
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My stacks vary from 8"-24".....luckily I'm not anal retentive like some around here who feel the need to measure logs before they saw them as they'd loose there mind looking at my wood pile..
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calebng15
Always lookin' for somthing to cut!
Well, looks like I'm in the normal range! I though I was a little short cutting 16in pieces. Looks like that is what most cut though!
I have to wonder if common truck bed sizes have anything to do with log length. My truck has a 6' bed and I like to make four rows of logs at about 18" apiece. Some guys have an 8' long bed and can get 6 rows at 16" apiece on it. The truck bed size may have more to do with log length than the target fireplace or stove. Any comments on that hypothesis?
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