I cut and stack my own every year, I love the work too though there is nothing mentally taxing while doing it. I do love the idea that I am heating my home with dead standing or freshly fallen trees from around my timber farm.
Very neat work. Is a 'bushchord' an official unit of measurement? I've not heard it before, but then on my typical English housing estate, we don't do a lot of timber storage.
Nice -- our stack isn't so neat, but since we only have a small woodstove I've been chainsawing and chopping logs into much smaller pieces for burning.
i think bc is making it illegal for new homes to be built with wood burning fireplaces and existing homes with wood burning fireplaces must be registered...nice pile you got!
@beermeplease In densely populated areas poorly designed wood burners cause significant pollution and health problems. Apparently this is a problem in the UK where energy prices are high and people install any old burner and then burn poor quality wood that hasn't been properly dried. Where they get the wood from is a mystery to me; it's not as if there is a lot of forest left in the UK and also most people don't have a lot of space to stack a couple of years worth of wood and the climate makes it hard to keep it dry.
You can still install wood burners here in Norway but they have to meet fairly stringent standards and most of the people who use them are outside the most densely populate areas. We have a ready supply of wood and more space to stack it to dry and on this side of the country, the east, the humidity is fairly low so keeping it dry is not so difficult.
@ninalanyon Yes it's not a clean energy source. Most woodstoves/burners are now much cleaner because they have a double burn system, but they are still a dirty energy source.
@jackrabbit10 I love the look of a woodpile; so much so my wife bought me a book about Scandinavian wood drying techiniques lol. The book is also about everything wood, chaninsaws, axes, woodstoves etc..
I doubt most know how much a cord of wood is on this site. Heck even that measurement has changed over decades. It change from 6x6x6 to 4x4x8 just so they could get more money per cord. 216 cubic feet to 128 cubic feet.
@JimboSaturn Nice. The furnace in this old farmhouse quit working in 1014 and I just s=installed the wood burning furnace until I complete the new home build. I am not putting a dime into a home I will tear down once the new one is moved into.
So, all I have is wood heat. I will have propane heat and a ductless heat pump system in the new home but primarily using a woodstove for heat in the new home too. I just love the wood burning heat with a couple cast iron kettles full of water sitting on top of the stove putting off steam heat for moisture in the air.
