Not So Pro 3

[Sagebrush33]

Imagine if you lived in a really cold climate and had to use oil or propane! How much wood do you use? Conventional OWB burning fresh cut wood?

Your a Mainer ....beautiful state. I'm no stranger to Franklin Co. NY. Gets cold there for sure! Currently in the hilltops of CNY.
I'm used to cold climates. Probably why I prefer spring, fall, and summer over the winters.
Heated with an indoor, forced hot air wood furnace. About 2/3s of this house is crawl space with the kitchen having a separate space. This area has no insulation and the foundation is stacked stone. Kitchen was one cold mother f'er!!!
Moved in in beginning of Nov. Had little time to prepare for winter. Got a log truck load of semi seasoned and green logs ... cheap.
My buddy fed me about 10 pick up loads of maple and other cuts of oak not suitable for firewood splitting. Have a good pecentage of the logs still. Burned about 15 cord.

 

[Saw Collector]

View attachment 295903 The woods was good to me today. The ramps are past where they were last year at this time, the leaves have mostly died. The bulbs are swollen though(comments welcome) and delicious. Also found some morels and oysters. Made the best supper yet up here with the shrooms and some flavored brats.

Where do them sasages grow?

 

[Saw Collector]

Evenin those sweating swollen bulbs and those suffering from sweaty swollen bulbs alike.
Headin in for an overtime night. Daddy needs new class2 boots and some chains for unused unneeded saws.
Here is a pic of Cookies n Cream ice cream, chocolate drops and Hershey's sauce. For likes mostly.

Keep safe ay.

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That will send ya to the dunny I recon.

 

[Sagebrush33]

Where do them sasages grow?

Mastermind farms?

 

[Kiwioilboiler]

That will send ya to the dunny I recon.

Nope. Staple diet for me Steve. With bananas normally, but someone (me) hasn't been to the supermarket.

 

[Saw Collector]

Nope. Staple diet for me Steve. With bananas normally, but someone (me) hasn't been to the supermarket.

The dairy makes me itchy sometimes. I avoid it now mostly. Cheese on a burger about it.

 

[SpaceBus]

Your a Mainer ....beautiful state. I'm no stranger to Franklin Co. NY. Gets cold there for sure! Currently in the hilltops of CNY.
I'm used to cold climates. Probably why I prefer spring, fall, and summer over the winters.
Heated with an indoor, forced hot air wood furnace. About 2/3s of this house is crawl space with the kitchen having a separate space. This area has no insulation and the foundation is stacked stone. Kitchen was one cold mother f'er!!!
Moved in in beginning of Nov. Had little time to prepare for winter. Got a log truck load of semi seasoned and green logs ... cheap.
My buddy fed me about 10 pick up loads of maple and other cuts of oak not suitable for firewood splitting. Have a good pecentage of the logs still. Burned about 15 cord.

I almost spit out my coffee at 15 cords! I'm on a woodstove forum as well and guys with the largest available forced air wood furnaces still burn 4-6 cords a season, even in places that average below 20f in the winter. That house must have about zero insulation.

Our winters have been fairly mild, since moving here in fall 2018 and fixing up this busted ass 1200 sqft house we only burn four cords a winter, and that's wood with less than 20% water by weight. First winter we just used a small (just under 1 cubic foot of firebox volume) freestanding cast iron stove, but that stove has been tested at 83% efficiency. The house was built in 1976 with 2x6 framing, 1200sqft saltbox, somewhat insulated slab (no perimeter, just under the slab and that is questionable) and when we got here the insulation was soaking wet with rotten framing all over. We've replaced most of the first floor insulation with R23 rockwool, but some stud bays are still empty and most of the band joist area is also uninsulated, for now. The main living area, almost all of the downstairs sq footage, is just studs and insulation with a weather barrier on the outside of the sheathing and siding over that.

Last fall I installed a wood burning cookstove that also preheats the domestic hot water. It's a bit larger than the freestander, but it is not as efficient at heating the house. It can carry the heating load in the milder parts of spring and fall, but not in "real" winter.

Also, I'm not a "real" Mainer, but born in the mountains of VA and moved all around the world as an army brat ad then joined the army myself.

 

[SpaceBus]

The dairy makes me itchy sometimes. I avoid it now mostly. Cheese on a burger about it.

Weird question, but does milk also make you "phlegm-ey"? I never had problems with milk growing up, but as I hit about 11-12 it started giving me bowel distress and full of mucous/phlegm. Now I limit my dairy to cooking or goat milk. Some day I'd like to try donkey or camel milk, but hard to come by here.

 

[Mastermind]

Where do them sasages grow?

Kevin's hands.....duh.

Erebody knows dat.

 

[Sagebrush33]

That house must have about zero insulation.

Most of the second floor is insulated and the first floor is almost entirely insulated. R-13 in the walls....
Kitchen has no living space above and is fully insulated. Except for the floor. No modern windows, and they all need new felts.

I have an All Nighter mid sized stove that I haven't installed yet. It'll help. The furnace has to push the air through 40' or so of house before it hits the living room. Some of that air duct is in the crawlspace.

 

[Saw Collector]

Weird question, but does milk also make you "phlegm-ey"? I never had problems with milk growing up, but as I hit about 11-12 it started giving me bowel distress and full of mucous/phlegm. Now I limit my dairy to cooking or goat milk. Some day I'd like to try donkey or camel milk, but hard to come by here.

Yes it does. Sometimes I get hives. Its really only milk and cream. Cheese doesn't seem to effect me. Blood test says I have a milk allergy not dairy allergy but I limit all of it. Actually avoid milk all together. Lil cheese like I mentioned.

 

[Saw Collector]

Kevin's hands.....duh.

Erebody knows dat.

I've had my sausage grow in my hands once ir twice.

 

[41FanForLife]

Back at the Mary Jane farm. Humid as *f-word in this building. Hope you all have a good day and GFY.

 

[GCJenks204]

Morning All. Please send some of that heat this way. 28F and frost on the ground this morning.

 

[Mastermind]

Morning All. Please send some of that heat this way. 28F and frost on the ground this morning.

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I'd move.

 

[SpaceBus]

Most of the second floor is insulated and the first floor is almost entirely insulated. R-13 in the walls....
Kitchen has no living space above and is fully insulated. Except for the floor. No modern windows, and they all need new felts.

I have an All Nighter mid sized stove that I haven't installed yet. It'll help. The furnace has to push the air through 40' or so of house before it hits the living room. Some of that air duct is in the crawlspace.

Ah, uninsulated ducts/crawl space will do it too. There was a guy on the hearth forums that couldn't figure out why his brand new Kuuma VaporFire100 couldn't heat his house when an old Hot Blast did just fine. Turns out he also burned 10 cord a winter and ran that hot blast at full tilt with no insulation in the crawlspace and the ducts were uninsulated. Some of those old stoves have a higher max BTU output, but for a short period of time and burning a lot of wood to do so. That all Nighter will also be a hungry beast, but might work better than the forced air stove. I know EPA approved stuff isn't that popular around here, but I really love my modern stoves, and I bet you would too.

When we first moved into our house there was a gigantic Vermont Castings Defiant I sitting in the living room. It was entirely too much stove for our small house, but it would be at home in yours though. After buying our new EPA approved freestanding stove the wood consumption dropped by 30-50%, and that was in December before the real winter started. We knew the Defiant was too big when we moved into the house and needed to be replaced. I was convinced that the newer EPA stoves were not any better than antique stuff from the late 1800's. After many weeks of searching I gave in and we looked at some new stoves. Much like giving in and buying an HST tractor, I have no regrets about going with a modern stove.

That All Nighter will be lucky to hit 50% efficiency, the really old stuff might be knocking on the door of 35%. Even the EPA approved wood heating appliance list just has a dozen or so stoves rated at 75%, which are eligible for a 21% tax break. If I were in your shoes I would be insulating that ductwork and looking at the new Drolet Heat Commander or Kuuma VaporFire 100. A Blaze King Princess or King model stove would probably heat your entire house as well, but the King requires an 8" flue, and is one of the only stoves that requires such a large flue.

 

[SpaceBus]

Morning All. Please send some of that heat this way. 28F and frost on the ground this morning.

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Not as cold here, but I did light a fire in the cookstove this morning!

 

[SpaceBus]

Yes it does. Sometimes I get hives. Its really only milk and cream. Cheese doesn't seem to effect me. Blood test says I have a milk allergy not dairy allergy but I limit all of it. Actually avoid milk all together. Lil cheese like I mentioned.

I've never gotten hives, but otherwise that is my experience. For the last year or two I've switched to Coffee Mate instead of half and half or heavy cream in my coffee. One of these days I should probably get a lab test to see if I have an allergy or just can't digest it.

 

[Cat 525]

Good morning ope! Lots of flooding going on around here!

 

[dall]

Damn slackers