Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

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A little more “Snob Wood” for the holz hausen, sweet BTU’s!
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White oak and hickory is the highest btu of firewood. I save that for the lowest temps. Any kind of birch burns hot and quick to warm up a cold house. I burn skids cut up till December one good fire a night. I switch to split hardwood when the cold hits. I use two heat temp gauges one on the stove and one on the pipe. I regulate the temp & burn time in the stove and how much heat goes up the pipe.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rutland-Stove-Thermometer-Burn-Indicator-701/202218152
 
More BTU's.:rolleyes:
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Betcha you gotta empty the "spl-ash" pan more often than on the spruce lol

Never thought about that.
Might as well grab the softwood since you're getting the same weight it should be about the same BTUs anyway.
The great thing for me is I have what I call the chevy 350 of pellet stoves and it will eat about anything you feed it. I like to buy the bags that are damaged or returned, why not for half price or even sometimes a dollar a bag :dancing:. I only use a few bags a yr anymore. I bought 5 this yr and have burned what was left in the stove from last yr and 2.5 bags, we had a sitter here with the kids when we went to Niagara Falls so that made it easier on her/the kids to keep the house warm, small price to pay for a nice vacation for my wife and I :heart:.

We've got a fella around here selling mdf pellets , not sure how they burn or what comes out the stack .
 
We've got a fella around here selling mdf pellets , not sure how they burn or what comes out the stack .
Never heard of those.
Just grabbed me three big wheelbarrow loads of hardwood. When its this cold I am probably at the stove as much as you guys are with the spruce and pine because I have to manage the coals. The good thing is we all get to run saws and our homes are nice and toasty :havingarest:, except when you don't get up to fill the stove like I did this morning:sucks:. After working it pretty hard to maintain the temp this morning I managed to bring it back up to normal room temps.
 
That sure is a nice looking van :)
As they say down in Australia "that ain't no van":laughing:.
I saw this a couple weeks ago and was drooling over it :sweet:. Nate could even load logs on the roof rack. Steve were gonna need that tailgate lift :happybanana:.
I like these things, but if something goes wrong in the engine compartment :eek:.
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I'm pretty sure that the fella gets free mdf sawdust from a molding plant and presses his own pellets .
I know mdf burns real hot but the glue is not a good thing to burn .
Oh that mdf, that's nasty, but I'm sure my pellet stove would gobble it up lol.
 
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