HOW MUCH FIREWOOD DO YOU BURN IN A YEAR??

[@richardwarren9402]

I cut wood off the farm, trees that fall or storm damage, we have a lot of sweet gum, hard to split, you have to slab it off, bought a wood splitter, made it much better, 66 now and splitting hammer to much on old man, friend of mine had a white oak blow down in a tornado, he let me cut it up for smoker wood. I got about 4 as you call it face cords of white oak, two face cords of cherry, all for smoking in my off set smoker I built. Then I got 14 face cords for my wood heater in my shop, as you I enjoy the exercise, keep the videos coming, I went back this afternoon and watched #1 or first video, Chris you are a natural, I love your honest approach and natural ability

[@InTheWoodyard]

That white oak is great smoker wood! Thanks for watching Richard! I make the videos just for you ....but a few others watch sometimes!

[@cliffjenkins6419]

Hi Chris,over here in HBNZ I burn five cord of mainly pine a year which is a lot by local standards but our house doesn't have any other heat source in it. Just a very good "box fire" I really don't like power bills and my main fitness thing nowdays is cutting and splitting firewood. Hope you and all your viewers have a great festive season. Cheers from Hawkes Bay New Zealand.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds like you’ve got a great setup! Keep cuttin’!

[@rickharris1870]

I burn 4-7 cord to heat our 120 year old farmhouse. Depends on the severity of the winter. This is my 48 year cutting, splitting and burning wood for heat. I'm in west central Minnesota where oak, ash, elm, boxelder and basswood grow. I love watching your channel. Keep up the good work!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks for watching and keep cuttin'....you have at least another 48 years to cut!

[@patrickmcguigan9462]

Hi Chris, I was wondering if you were still doing the video with all the pics and videos of our wood sheds and stuff we use on our firewood processes ? Love the channel !

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yes, some day I will, still sorting them out...I got thousands of pictures and hundreds of videos...way to much to handle!!! I have been working on sorting them out for some time now! Thanks for watching!

[@thehappening411]

Chris, as always thank you for all you do! I have yet another question. I am very close to having enough money to purchase either a dump trailer or a faster splitter (Eastonmade Ultra). Which of these pieces of equipment would you prioritize getting first? Sir, thank you!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yes, absolutely! Both!!! I bought a dump trailer first BUT if I was to do it over the first thin would be a faster bigger saw (s) second a faster splitter (ultra) and asap ....a dump trailer!

[@matthewhamrick1099]

Hey Chris, for a different video you may think about contacting a chimney sweep discuss cleaning, chimneys, hardwood, soft wood, wet, wood, dry wood consequences of not cleaning your chimney

[@DanielAtkinsFirewood]

Oh now there is a good idea. 😉👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, I already have .....we both have been so busy we have not had time to get together!!!!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup

[@whygimf1954]

4-5 cord a yr Oct- mid May. 1400 ft ranch in N. NH. Hard and Softwood. Oil burning forced air furnace and water heater. Yr round cost target for heat/elec is $130./mo.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds like you burn everything!!!

[@daledonais]

Hey Chris we have an older double wide and burn about 4-6 full cords a year in our older wood doctor outdoor boiler depending on the type of winter

[@InTheWoodyard]

That sounds great..wood heat is the best!

[@BoDean52]

What type of wood do you recommend for a wood fireplace not used for heat. We love Cherry but does a mix of Oak make sense too. Would love a video on that topic. Thanks!

[@iffykidmn8170]

Nothing wrong with Oak if you like less flame and more glowing coals, grab an arm load and try it everyone has their own preferences for different reasons.

[@InTheWoodyard]

The good thing is.....all wood burns! I burn faster burning wood in my fireplace...soft maple, ash, cherry, PINE, box elder, aspen (poplar), and some oak and hard maple too...it is all good!

[@InTheWoodyard]

I like a mix!

[@TylerStevens-h5l]

5 or 6 cord. Inside wood boiler. 4500 square foot heating area. 7 year old house.

[@InTheWoodyard]

You're living the dream!

[@rogercyr1551]

14 face cords, open concept house (loft bedroom), mix of elm, maple, oak, walnut, and ironwood. Winter overnight temps can go down to -30C/-22F. The place stays cozy with the big old Elmira stove that can handle 22" logs :)

[@thomasgreene5750]

Growing up in NH in the 1970s in a ~1900 sq ft house built around 1960, we used to burn 5 or 6 cords a year, mostly mixed hardwood, in a large, conventional wood stove plumbed into the main chimney. Filling it first thing in the morning and again after supper kept the house comfortable. We had back-up oil heat, but we hardly used it in the winter.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds great..ya can't beat wood heat!

[@larrylefebvre2237]

Hi Chris, I live in Northern Ontario where the winters are a little longer and colder. Our home was built in 1945 and the walls (2x4 roughcut) were probably filled with sawdust. I go through apprimately 16 face cords a year (9 poplar and 7 yellow birch). I cut, split and stack the wood I gather at the cottage and bring home. The woodstove was replaced 2 years ago with a more efficient model. Our home also has a high efficiency natural gas furnace and we keep the thermostat at 71F. My goal is to heat the house with having the furnace come on too often, because every time it comes on I see $$$ used for heat. Keep up the good videos. GNI

[@InTheWoodyard]

I think 16 face cords is pretty standard for a home like that, especially in a cold climate like yours. Keep cuttin'!

[@davidfurman8285]

i have a 1100 foot cabin pretty new and a good wood stove and I burn about 4 1/2 full cords but we measure by the face cord which i think is about 13 0r 14. I still cut my own wood but its getting harder every year. I’m 81 but i really like cutting wood. upstate NY and i cut anything but pine

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds like you are living the dream!!! Keep cuttin'!

[@neilmeyers5519]

50 year old chalet style house on 3 levels (the basement is finished) in central NC (not in the mtns). 2 wood burning inserts (basement and main level). 2300 sq ft total. 2 heat pumps serve as backup in the winter while primarily burning wood to heat the house. Averaging 3-4 full cords/yr of mainly oak (seasoned at least a year). Burning wood mid-Oct through mid-Apr (6 months).

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds like a great setup for burning wood!

[@jonathanwilliams3000]

Bought a Defiant wood stove last year. Had 2 cords of “ hardwood, mostly oak” so they said delivered and it lasted a little over a month. I don’t think it was 2 full cords nor “mostly oak” but I didn’t know any better. I worked from February to June getting wood and now I know exactly what I have. About 4-5 cords of mostly oak, some cherry and maple. We’ll see how long that lasts.

[@InTheWoodyard]

All good wood...when you cut it all yourself...the heat feels better!

[@davidedwards3734]

Wow!! New customer and should be very happy with the species of wood and the amount you delivered!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, they always are...thanks!

[@joelnitsche2979]

We burn 6 cord to keep our two story house heated. An old Country insert downstairs runs all winter and if it is really cold I fire up the really old Country insert upstairs too. I try to burn Doug fir here in western Washington. Sometimes some hemlock and red alder too. You inspire to keep after it Chris. Never stop moving 😉

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, keep cuttin'...I will not stop until I drop!

[@RVBob]

This is only my 3rd year heating with a wood stove. 1st winter was mild and combined with my learning curve I used approx 2 full cord. Last winter I used close to 3 cord. This year I'm not counting, I just take wood off my pile. Next winter all my wood is stacked and measured and I'll know exactly what I burned. I'm located in central PA an hour north of Harrisburg (or right down the street from Scheib if you watch him)

[@InTheWoodyard]

That sounds great.....Yup, I know SIR Donald Scheib real well...very nice guy!

[@kennyp507]

I burn for my main heat (by choice) and yes its around 3 - 3.5 full cords per season, I typically light the wood stove in November and it will stay running until the end of April or whenever the day time temps hit near 60 on a regular basis. I love my wood stove and really love the lifestyle it provides me, (makes me go out to find, cut, split and stack)

[@InTheWoodyard]

YOu could burn 365 just crank up the AC!!!! Keep cuttin'!

[@timbervisions]

We use about 2 full cords each winter for heating the house. I don't have a fire going all the time, but when it's below 25° F outside, there is a fire going. If it's much warmer than that it can get a bit too toasty in the house.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Warm is good!

[@MarkM-ke6cn]

I start every burn season (October) with 5cord of mostly pine/fir/spruce. Usually end the season (June) with a little to spare. 1000ish sqft house. Southern exposure. Idaho mountains. 4500' elevation.

[@InTheWoodyard]

That sounds great...can I move in with you? I love the mountains!

[@tim2truk162]

house built in 1868, I'm in upstate NY near the finger lakes area. 2400 square foot or so. only use downstairs got some insulation not a ton. on average 14 face cord a winter, it's all i use except maybe early in fall may use furnace to take edge off. thought about getting one of those newer stoves they say i could reduce my wood usage by 25%.... hmmm 5k for that big blaze king catalyst stove! it would manage the temps better but i got a big old Timberline stove that'll hold 23 inch pieces anyway you want to put them in, cross ways or forward to back doesn't matter. I buy logs and cut and split myself, besides my time doing that i get 3 winters worth of logs for 1200 bucks.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds like a good deal! Can't beat wood heat!

[@lga11863]

We burn just under 2 full cords a year in North GA. We have a insert and burn for supplemental heat and enjoyment. Also ordered the 1165v last month after watching your video with Tony. Can't wait!

[@InTheWoodyard]

With that splitter you will be burning more wood...because you will have so much fun cutting and splitting MORE WOOD!

[@iffykidmn8170]

No longer heat with wood, I always figured winter heating season to about a months difference between northern and southern Wisconsin. Brother from N Alabama was still running the A/C a week prior to coming to N Wisconsin for the deer opener so geographic location might have some bearing on the amount of wood burned as well.😜

[@InTheWoodyard]

That makes sense...especially when you're heating with wood and deer hunting .........which is way more important!!

[@wicked.mainah5994]

I burn about 10-14 full cords a year, from September to the end of April. Wood burning seasons are long here in Maine

[@BlackForestWoodStoving]

250lb of wood per day? Boiler? 3 wood stoves?

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very nice...wood heat is the best!

[@joearnett9884]

Depends on the winter here in Michigan I burn last year I burned seven cords of wood but normally if it's really cold close to 10 cords I have crappy windows I have six windows in my living room and I have two sliding glass doors and I have a 1953 house with a add-on in 1976 so this house is not insulated the greatest so that's why I burn a lot of wood. Awesome video

[@InTheWoodyard]

Seven cords...10 cords...that's a lot of wood!

[@noel3065]

In the 70's and 80's I had a basement under a mobile home and burnt about 13 full cords a year, it wasn't insulated at all. In 89 completed my house and put the same wood stove in the new basement and come down to 3 to 4 full cords a year. Oh the wood stove is a ben franklin insert for a fire place which I modified and still working to this day.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very nice...yup...insulation is a good thing!

[@hankjordan2602]

Outside Boiler 2000 sq foot house during the winter from December to April 4 and half cord, but I run my stove all year I have plenty of wood it free just have to work getting it in good exercise.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice...keep cuttin'!

[@Truthseeker21000]

I am in the UK and we burn enough to keep our little woodburner going most days, from October through to March, for 12 hours + aswell as our outdoor pizza oven which we use once or twice a month. I have never cared to measure how much we burn in a year as we have an abundance of firewood on the farm. We also cut up pallets to use as kindling for our employers and I keep aside all the remains to burn in our woodburner so that supplements about 1/5th of the wood we burn inside. We mainly burn for heat but also we appreciate the warm atmosphere the fire brings to the home.

[@InTheWoodyard]

That is awesome! Keep cuttin' ya can't beat wood fire for heat!

[@briangleason4435]

I'm in Iowa and go through around 3 full cords heating with wood in a Kuma Wood Stove. Got ash coming out my ears from taking down several neighbors groves. I will be finding out how long ash will last in log form as I figure it will store best that way and only have a few years worth split as I go. Any thoughts on how long ash will store in log form off the ground?

[@iffykidmn8170]

about the same length of time as if it was in firewood form exposed to the elements, dead standing would probably last longer.

[@briangleason4435]

@iffykidmn8170 thanks for the feedback. I have no clue because I've never tried it. But since smaller split wood dries a whole lot faster than large split, so in theory I figured it should take YEARS for logs? I've been wrong before.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Get it cut split and covered so the wood STAY dry and it should last years...think of it this way...how long does the wood furniture in your house last...or the wood frame 2x4 or 2x6 studs...how about the molding, doors, tables, chairs, beds, dressers???? it is out of the elements and dry and no sun...it lasts a long long time IF protected!

[@InTheWoodyard]

If you get it cut to length and split it will last longer...dry wood (without bark covering it on all sides is not a good home for bugs and moisture..it/they will leave.

[@BarkingMadLad]

Ontario, 10-14 full cords. Insulation could be a bit better. That's on a classic outdoor boiler. Bonus is it will burn anything including not fully seasoned pine. Split or unsplit.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, boilers do use more wood...mostly because people do burn anything including wet wood.....very inefficient .

[@hoosierlogger]

I burn between seven and eight cords of wood per year. I’m using an outdoor boiler heating a 14 x 20 wood shop, 28 x 32 garage, and 1800 square-foot house plus hot water.

[@InTheWoodyard]

That is a bunch of stuff to heat..keep cuttin'!

[@thefirewooddoctor]

In my big fire pit, I can easily burn a facecord in a 3-fay weekend burning binge.

[@atskooc]

I’m in NE Kansas. I’ll push about 5 cords through my wood stove during a cold winter. Been pretty mild so far this year.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very nice....wood heat is the best!

[@seastacker8582]

We don’t heat with it, but do have a big 4” culvert ring we have bonfires in. We burn 1-2 face cords of drinking wood a season here in SE Michigan. Most of what I have is the fallen box elder on our property, so it burns pretty fast.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Drinking wood is the most important kind of wood!!!

[@npast1]

Upstate NY, 15 degrees outside today, typical day. I burn about four full cords a season. I have centralized gas furnace too, so if it was only firewood, it would be more than four cords. My firewood insert is a high efficiency hybrid model with catalytic converter. During the day I often burn at medium setting because the family enjoys the view of the fire, but at night I fully close the damper, so it is mostly red coals and catalytic converter burning all night long. I don't mind burning pine occasionally either. Most people here are snobbish about firewood and only want hardwood, so pine is oftentimes almost free. I burn pine, but make sure that it is really really dry, it is good for getting the fire going because it burns fast and hot.

[@tim2truk162]

in the same area, want some willow?? LOL

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds like a great setup you have there!

[@gp4103]

This year a lot less so far. Several days in Dec with no stove needed. I have 5/6 cords split and dry and will probably be carrying over at least a cord at end of march if I'm lucky. Problem I have now is my pile of wood has no where to rotate to so I can split the new stuff and add it to the pile.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Wear weather is nice for sure...it is supposed to be 40s here..I am going tanning for a few days outside!

[@samuelvallejo1720]

Any idea why I can burn kiln dried birch beautifully but as soon as I put in a log of anything “seasoned” around 17% moisture. Fire just smolders and I have to leave the door cracked for it to fully catch fire? - morso squirrel wood stove

[@InTheWoodyard]

Maybe not enough draft...is your chimney clean???

[@chuckwagon7171]

I use About 2 full cords a season1k Sq ft house in north eastern Kentucky. I use some electric heat on the shoulder season but not much.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds like you have a good setup, nice size house to heat and pay taxes.....As little as possible!

[@Alstigen]

90 year old 3 floor house, well insulated. We burn between 5 and 6 cords for heat in the stove / oven on the first floor. Geothermal in the basement provides about half the heat and the stove the rest. We maintain much toastier indoor temps than we would without the stove. Stove is 38 years old, I put it in, and it works perfectly. We cook in the oven all the time. The wood is two year seasoned, fine split birch. Central Sweden 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds like you have a good system..keep cuttin'!

[@michaelbradley770]

I am on my 3rd season with my new indoor wood furnace and I am averaging 3 full cord a winter keeping the house at 70. My gas furnace has not been used since I installed this wood furnace. My house is 2200 square feet built in 1895 but had new insulation installed in the early 2000's

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice...keep cuttin'!

[@steveout6971]

I go through about 10 cubic metres per year purely for heating. A well stacked tote is about 1 cubic metre. My house is not well insulated and on a windy day/night you can feel the breeze coming in somewhere. Unfortunately the living room has a cathedral ceiling so most of the heat is up there. You can feel the temperature go up as you climb the stairs to the second floor.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Ya might want to insulate, seal off the air leaks and maybe a ceiling fan????

[@welderman1042]

I live in an old 1900 farmhouse there’s 1970’s newspaper if there is anything at all in the walls. Got a large outdoor boiler and I sell all the premium wood and I burn all the chunk wood so about 13 full cords of hardwood in a winter and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Yeah it’s a lot of work to feed it.

[@InTheWoodyard]

That is awesome...keep cuttin'!

[@Peachpickin1]

Northern NJ, HE insert in newer house but love burning wood so probably go through 4.5 full cords a winter.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very nice ....keep cuttin'!

[@ChrisLascari]

Most winters i burn 7-8 full cords, this year has been so warm I'm still on my wood alloted for November. 4300 sq ft, 56 year old house with bad insulation

[@InTheWoodyard]

That is a big old house with a lot of square feet to heat! Keep cuttin'!

[@ericschroederfotografia8248]

I heat my home with Ponderosa Pine, around 6 full cords per year. I’m from North Patagonia, Argentina 🇦🇷

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice...is that a native tree?

[@larryvankirk7423]

Not heating the house or cabin with wood but go through a face cord or so in the well insulated metal shop. Just heat the shop enough to take the chill off mornings when I’m working in there. I also burn the lumber scraps from woodworking projects in that stove. All the rest (2-3 cords) is burned in outdoor fire pits (drinking wood). GNI

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds like you are using wood just right!

[@kirkstrope676]

I burn between 8-10 full cord depending on the winter. I heat 1400sft house, attached 900sft garage, and half of a 2 story detached 2700sft barn that is my shop. I have a indoor +90% efficiency gasification wood boiler in my shop that has 1200 gallons of water storage. Hot water baseboard in the house and ceiling mounted hot water radiators in both the garage and shop. If it gets down to below 20f I will have one fire a day. If its warmer out and only need heat at say night time it will take as much as a week to lower the temp of the water storge to 140f when i have to build another fire. Stove holds about 200lbs of wood for a full load in the firebox, its a 3 foot circle and 40 inches deep. Whole stove is about 8'square on the face and about 12' long. takes it 2.5 hours to burn it all up and go out again. Stove has computer controlled draft doors and a 3 phase induction motor for forced draft that are all automatic. Once the fire is out the stove shuts everything down on its own and I have 1200 gallons of 230f water. water gets circulated through the shop and underground to loops for the house and garage as called for by all the programable thermostats. I like it as i don't have to ever feed the stove in the middle of the day like a wood stove or conventional wood boiler with out storage. I start up the draft toss an amazon box in the bottom toss it full of wood in 5 minutes hit the cardboard with a berzo torch and leave and go about my day. In 15 minutes its up to full temp and self regulates the burn temp with the self opening and closing draft doors and the fan speed on the 3phase draft motor. It burns as hot and as fast as it can heating the water storage until it runs out of wood and shuts down. I never open the stove while its burning so no smokey mess or anything inside my nice clean shop. Keeps things nice and clean. Since it is a gasification boiler it burns the smoke too so only thing out the chimney is water vapor after its up to temp and has been ripping for 20 minutes or so. Makes almost no ashes since it burns so hot and fast it burns up everything. I empty the ashes maybe once a month and brush out the internal tubes for the heat exchanger at the same I have 24 wood racks with tin roofs i made that i move with forks on my heavy equipment that are 4' Wide 5' Tall and 2 rows deep at 32" its more wood then i need to burn for a season. Each rack last me 6 fires. so anywhere from a week to 20 days when i empty a rack I replace it with a fresh one. i have room for 2 inside. So it has a week to sit inside warm up and dry some more before i burn it. They sit on platforms with casters under them so i can roll them around in the shop by hand if i need to.

[@pvwjr]

Wow, you should make a video of your setup. I would love to see it, sounds impressive.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds nice..keep cuttin'!

[@roger766]

Yes I heat with wood. Burn 5 cords a year. 2 years ahead. Oak, maple cherry primarily, mixed with all other hardwoods. Plus sell bundle wood.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very nice ....keep cuttin'!

[@mattshell7753]

Missouri Ozarks have a Vermont Casting wood burner in basement, more a fun deal but helps electric bills. Use cord and half. Oak/hickory..

[@InTheWoodyard]

That sounds great! Keep cuttin'!

[@Oldvideosfromtheinternet]

PNW, 1200 sq.ft 70-year old house, epa2020 wood stove. Heat with wood full time, but it's been a mild winter so far, only about a week of freeze. Have gone through 0.5 cord, on track to burn ~1.5 cords by the end of spring. Although, I have been super conservative with burning because that's all the wood I got right now. :( To be comfortable, I would like 3 cords a year. My goal is to have 10 cords on hand. I am saving up for a truck so I can start harvesting my own firewood. Cutting and splitting wood is such a joy, I wish it could be a bigger part of my everyday life.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds like you NEED a truck so you can live right and cut wood every day!! Go for it!

[@jeffpeters1014]

9 today at camp, 1 cord sometimes a little more. One cord at home for supplemental heating. We have an extra cord for backup.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good plan!

[@seanpuffer8436]

Do you still run AW32 in the ultra when splitting in winter temps? Or do you switch it over to automatic transmission fluid?

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, never have switched...ever..only changed the fluid once in 5 years.

[@cobra-mn745]

am in Central MN and used to burn about 8 cord of Poplar and oak a year, now burning about 12 cord of free Poplar/Aspin slabs in my outside boiler. Until it gets to 0°F I only fill it once a day, 0°-to -20°F twice a day and below -20° 3 times a day. I should point out I like my 75°F house temp

[@InTheWoodyard]

I like to be warm too!!! 75 is nice at 80 I can run around the house in my undies!

[@JonSalmonon]

Chris long time watcher first time responding. I have a outside boiler in a old farm house that was remodeled in 98. I burn 14 to 18 full cords. I burn anything from boxelder to oak and anything else. Ps boiler heats house,water and my shop and that's 18'x36. I'll start burning in Sept till April. Time near Cannon Falls Mn

[@InTheWoodyard]

That is a good bunch of wood but for a house and a shop...I would expect that!

[@coreyriley7160]

G’morning Chris. We have averaged 10 rickarankarowathirds per season. Our Pacific Energy stove is AWESOME. This is all free, dropped off tree service red oak. Good music episode again. GoodNightIrene

[@alfredutri4071]

Burned full time from 1977-93 in a basement add-on wood furnace. Ranch of 1700 sq.ft. in Milwaukee Co. and used 3-4 full cords of oak from Arbor Vitae, WI.Started selling wood in 1993 with the objective to see if selling the amount burned was more profitable than the savings from natural gas not used. Selling the wood was/is more profitable than burning it for heat.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, selling the wood is a good gig but it is a lot of work...but I like it!

[@annaaron3510]

No central furnace with a thermostst "set" at ~ 65 F . For 'away' or emergency heat, a propane "thru the wall" heater and a short oil filled baseboard electric for when gone for a short time in winter, or, if I need another hip 😢😢. So the stoves need to raise the delta from outside to inside to a comfort room temp of ~ 72 F. Two ( 2) Jotul Rangely wood stoves for the two parts of the 2000 ft² home we built in Downeast Maine. On a snowless year ( snow does insulate ) like last winter, we used near a full 8 cords of mixed species ( paper birch, red/soft maple, some ash, blowdown softwoods, some yellow birch, little beech and red oak, scrounged black locust from the Tree Feller ). The norm for us harvested off the back 40 is around 6 real cords/year. More BTW as we age or decide to walk around nude 😁 . Some mornings at zero dark hundred with outdoors in the singles, the temps inside may be in the high 50's, but back to comfort within an hour. Done this since 2000. There you go Chris and Co. Comments ?

[@InTheWoodyard]

If you want to chase you wife around the house naked ....ya gotta keep it over 80 at all times!!

[@annaaron3510]

@@InTheWoodyard No sweat !

[@Fowledcollective]

I’m in a 40 yr old bungalo. Been here for 3 years now and had the gas fireplace replaced with a wood stove. We burn roughly 9 face a winter. Mind you we do have a furnace for those colder days when the stove just can’t keep up.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very nice...keep cuttin'!

[@jeremytownes3881]

I burn 6 full cords in my outdoor boiler. It heats a 144 year old farm house 2100 square feet 2 story fairly drafty. Northeast Indiana

[@InTheWoodyard]

That's a good bunch of wood!

[@russellhazzard6936]

I plan to burn 3 face cords....but it is Florida. NW Florida in the winter is Fall in New England. A few warm days, a few cold and repeat.

[@InTheWoodyard]

It is not cold until it is below zero for weeks on end with wind....you do not have cold. I can send you some!!! Haaaaa! For free!

[@briannelson4493]

My wood room in my basement is 29feet long by 6feet wide and 8feet high, I will go through all of that and about 3 more cord. Old farmhouse that’s been reinsulated and vapor barrier installed. 2 by 4 walls newer windows. It’s 81 degrees in here this morning

[@iffykidmn8170]

Think the part I miss most heating with wood is adjusting the room temp with opening windows, the older I get the colder I get.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very nice...if you get it up to 85 the wife will wear little to no clothes...just sayin'!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, we call that ...Hot heat!

[@keithmueller2857]

I think we burn about 10- 12 full cords per year for heat and hot water with our outdoor wood boiler in south central Wi.

[@InTheWoodyard]

That sounds great...keep cuttin'!

[@adamgabel560]

In northwest Ohio I use the heat pump until it’s mid 30’s then heat with wood. our 2200 sq ft farmhouse goes through about 3.5 cord a year. When we burned exclusively it was 7 cord a year.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very nice...keep cuttin'!

[@robertblacksmith4355]

2-3 Full cords a year !Wife wont use the woodstove!& I work fulltime !

[@sandsock]

is it cheaper to get a new wife or buy heating oil. its either put a log in the stove or you have a decision to make.

[@robertblacksmith4355]

@@sandsock get rid of the wife would cost me $$$,$$$$!! my natural gas boiler is cheap to run!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Wood heat is the best...your wife might need lessons...or maybe get a new one.....haaaaaa!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, I agree!

[@InTheWoodyard]

They make new wives EVER day.......

[@novascotiagaragegrower3462]

I only burn at my offgrid recreational property. Between winter heating, camp fires, and maple syrup boiling in burn 5 to 6 full cords a year.

[@InTheWoodyard]

That is a nice bunch of wood for recreation! The syrup...now that is important stuff!!!!

[@Stihlalive044]

When we had cold winters years ago, I used to burn 5-6 cord of wood. Now I burn 1 cord of wood per year.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice...keep cuttin...the cold will eventually come back...according to scientists we has 7-11 ice ages....so....

[@hellinabucket3]

I live in Florida, without AC, and find it cold when it gets below 80 or so. I feed my baby bear about 2 - 4 cords a years as my only heat source. A face cord lasts about 2 weeks. I will be stoking it back up in a couple hours. The older I get, the less I like being cold.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, here anything over 60 is hot!! We have 5-6 months of -30-+30!!!

[@jessejones9830]

Thanks for the video Chris,did y'all here the sound of that dump? If that doesn't please him,then there's nothing anyone can do for him,he has now bought wood from the guy.lol

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, bowling pins!!! Thanks Jesse!

[@garyfox8170]

I have a Pacific Energy stove which over heats my 1200 sq ft house so windows are open all winter . I get my wood from a local farm owner who delivers 2 miles with his 80 year old tractor with manure wagon loaded with oak which holds about a cord and a half once a year. I don't start a fire till mid afternoon and let it go out at bed time. Gas bill $50 a month. In the summer he is a member of a Hotshot crew and travels to forest fires; splits wood off his farm in winter. Some years he doesn't split wood so I have to scramble to find wood. Wish there was a guy like you near me at Lake Wisconsin. I always need more wood.

[@InTheWoodyard]

I do deliver! For a small fee!

[@randykeech3557]

I am 100 percent wood heat and i wpuld say about 8 to 10 face cords per year. Old part of house need more insulation in attick. When it drops below minus 15C i got to feed i tje wood stove little more ofter.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, cold meands more wood!

[@sandsock]

8-10 cords with a old mill (fisher clone) . My mother burns maybe 5 with a jotul 500. 100% off grid heating. Central Ohio

[@josephheselberger4356]

I have a fisher momma bear stove in my basement love it.western ny.👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very nice!

[@haroldanderson2781]

That neighborhood looked nice. I’m betting you will get more word of mouth customers.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, that is how it works out for me a lot...one buys and all of a sudden I have 4-6 people around each other as customers!

[@WilleysFirewood]

We use 5 full cords per year here in Maine.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice...keep grandpa cuttin'...he is a machine!

[@jackiegammon2065]

Another old house here, I go through 8-10 cords each year. I live in Maine, so we heat our homes a good portion of the year...although, this climate change is certainly changing things a bit. Thanks for sharing!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very nice ....wood heat is the best!

[@jackiegammon2065]

@@InTheWoodyard It is, but coming off a cold stretch and keeping 2 stoves going... well, I'm dragging a bit. HA!

[@rickrob1277]

We’re in a 3 bedroom mobile home and use about 2-3 cords and a tote of off cuts(off cuts for spring and fall small fires) The best part is neighbours complaining about there 2-400 dollar power bills (electric heat up north in Canada) and our bill is usually under a hundred

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice job right there...keep cuttin'!

[@PicMartSkunkWerX]

3 full cords per year in the house, in a Jotul Oslo stove. Another 1 Full cord in the workshop, in an old Fisher GrandPa Bear stove. Another Full cord goes to my son's house in his smaller Jotul, and for my daughter's house, about a half cord. So, 5 cord per year is what I plan for family usage. Our fire pit is approx. 4 feet in diameter. It devours all of the branches, wind fall, old pallets, and undesirable species and odd shaped chunks.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Very nice...keep cuttin'!

[@billboyd7938]

I burn 5 to 7 cords a year depending on the weather. I mostly burn standing dead ash and cherry. I save Osage Orange and locust for real cold days. I have a US Stove furnace that is 20 or more years old.

[@InTheWoodyard]

That sounds great...keep cuttin'!

[@marshillmike]

Do any of your customers ever ask for a round or two as a base to split kindling, or a load of rounds so they can split their own wood? I have a geothermal heating system, but I'll burn two or three face cords each winter her in Western North Carolina in my wood stove. Once the temperature goes below freezing, I start burning and stop when it goes back over 40 degrees.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yes! I have given a few people a big old chunk of oak for a splitting base!

[@DocOfAllTrades]

I burn 3-5 cords depending on the severity of winter. October-April is our typical burn season.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice...keep cuttin'!

[@southin47639]

I burn from October to April. Im about 8 cords a year. Be safe and stay warm!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice keep cuttin'!

[@carl27890]

3-4 cords a year in a two bedroom apt that runs fulltime. Fir madrone and oak. I lose a lot of sleep from overheating but it’s better than being cold. I am not looking forward to burning my scrap wood in the coming seasons

[@InTheWoodyard]

Warm is good...more wood is the right amount!

[@upnorthknowledge]

With my old catalyst stove I would burn 4 1/2. I repplaced that with a Jotul reburn stove and now Im burning about 3 cord. This is in Maine winters that last over 7 months.

[@InTheWoodyard]

You must be insulated pretty well!

[@hend82]

I live in the Netherlands and mainly burn oak and beech to warm my house. Yearly I burn around 9m3 which is around 2.5 cords in cowboy units.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Haaaaa! Thanks...that is a new one...cowboy units!!! Maybe we can call them FREEDOM UNITS!!!

[@mrkorbel]

Chris-your FRV neighbor-burn 3-4 full cord of oak-keeps a 2000 sq ft ranch toasty Sept thru May-high efficiency wood stove

[@Firstgenerationfarmer27]

I go through with my wood stove and camp fires I go through 15 full cords a year that I do my self

[@InTheWoodyard]

That is awesome....keep cuttin'!

[@chadshumaker2789]

I heat with a wood boiler and for the 4k Sq ft I heat now (well insulated) I go through about 5 full cords per year. Of course how cold the winter is effects how much wood you go through.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, colder means more wood!

[@jasongallaher2501]

12-14 full cord heating 2 houses a garage and swimming pool.

[@InTheWoodyard]

That is a mess of wood...keep cuttin'!

[@jasongallaher2501]

@InTheWoodyard i used to sell about 200 cord a year. It was to the point where I needed to buy a bigger processor and get more property for storage. I was processing 3-4 triaxle loads a week plus my full time job. Wore myself out. Now I just cut for myself 12-14 cord is a breeze! Lol

[@kenrykert2503]

I burn about 3-4 full cords of cherry, oak, maple, and hickory that I process myself off my 13 acres in Western Michigan. We have a free standing Woodstock Soapstone Stove that heats our 1700 sq. ft. house nicely and is in use from October thru April.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Sounds to me like you are living the dream! Keep cuttin'!

[@billcoulter2666]

About four cord of mixed hardwood and about a cord to a cord and a half of white cedar,hemlock and cut offs from framing jobs!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice...keep cuttin'!

[@timothybrulotte4102]

I live in New Hampshire weather is similar to where You live. 3 bedroom 2300 Sq. ft we burn about 3.5 cords.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice, keep cuttin'!

[@brianrichmond8471]

I burn around 30 singles in an outdoor furnace heating an old farmhouse. Around sept 20- may 15. In Ontario

[@InTheWoodyard]

That sounds like nice warm place...more is the right amount of wood...keep cuttin'!

[@JesseLJohnson]

I heat my garage with wood. Usually somewhere from 4-6 face cords. Haven't been working nearly as much in the body shop anymore though so not using hardly any anymore. We used to burn up to 3 full cords but we also used to have 3-4 cars we were fixing at a time not doing much like we used to. I know some people around here that heat their house with wood and most people I know that have a house about the size of mine go through around 8 full cords. I know some people with small houses that are probably 1400 sq ft that only use 3-4 full cords. I have propane and kerosene heaters in my body shop too so the last few years we have mostly used those. They heat it up fast then kill them and it stays warm a while then kick them on again for a few min. Used to only use those early in the morning while I lit the fire but if we are only going to be out there a couple hours at a time don't really want to leave fires going in the unoccupied garage.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Burning wood is the most fun warmest most exercise heat you can have!!

[@Tommy-h4b]

Thank you very much for the video sor

[@InTheWoodyard]

You are welcome Tommy!

[@danbrophy3785]

6-7 cord in Vermont.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice...keep cuttin'!

[@jimdebarr5616]

I burn two to two and half cords each winter to heat the house .

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice, keep cuttin'!

[@garny3766]

10 full cords/yr. @3500sqft, 2 water heaters, forced air and in floor. No supplemental heat at all even in shoulder seasons. I can burn all year with my clone boiler to heat domestic HW if need be. Boiler burn efficiency doesn’t matter if it’s -40*f or 100*f. Only thing that changes is 2/day fires to 1 fire every 3-4 days. +17 years. #HY-C/Garn

[@InTheWoodyard]

Wow, you’re burning a lot of wood! But you have. great set up...keep cuttin'!

[@saltrock9642]

I’m in southeast Louisiana and live an 1800sqft log home and I burn 1.5 cords in the wood stove to heat my home. Then I burn the chunks in the fire pit. It gets a blustery 32deg sometimes 😂.

[@InTheWoodyard]

32 degrees is sun tan beach weather! -32 is more common here!

[@neilbush6190]

I burn 10 to14 face cords in 2 stoves. House is 40 years old and insulated fairly in upstate state New York

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice..wood heat is the best!