We've got a two story old farmhouse (2400sqft) in western Iowa with a living room wood stove for primary heat. We burn 3-4 full cords per year of free ash, elm, walnut, soft maple, and mulberry. We're saving $2000/year on electricity since switching to wood heat.
I appreciate that you took the time to address new people to your craft. At one time we were all pooping yellow in our diapers. Everyone has a story and a different experience level. Some were born into the logging heritage. Others could not find their butts with both hands. Some learn as babies, others might be senior citizens, but they all have the drive to learn. Be proud of who you are and what you know, but never forget where you came from. Thank You Chris for paying it forward. I will be 64 this year and I was not to proud to ask an eleven year old to tutor me on how to use a chromebook.
He's pretty darn good at offering some perspectives that others don't or won't consider. He very well may be on his way to becoming the Tom Snyder of the Wood Yard World
@Two Beards When I retired, I hung up the pager, phone, portable radio, and my watch. If I had a fax machine, I am sure it would have been unplugged. The third graders in the school system here are all given chromebooks at the start of the school year. Everything is digital. I commend any senior who endures the frustration of the digital age.
NE Texas, 1957 pier and beam three bedroom frame house, maybe 1500 square feet, poor insulation and drafty, nice Franklin wood stove (2'x2'x1.5'), burning red oak and hickory. Over the last 15 years, I have averaged about one full cord per year. It really needs to be 45 degrees before starting a fire, or it will get too hot in the house.
@@InTheWoodyard Yeah, we are fortunate to have enough trees on the property that we never have to cut green wood. Just by harvesting the few trees that die each year on the 22 acres, we have plenty to burn, and still leave brushpiles for the woodland critters. Since we avoid firing up the stove unless it gets down to the mid 40's outside, we save a lot of wood. It's just easier to put on a sweater to stay warm, as we have incidental heat sources such as PCs, TVs, propane water heater, and cooking to help keep the inside temps comfortable. We had a number of trees blow down in storms recently, so we have a bumper crop of firewood to process. We are thinking of maybe selling some. That is why we have been watching your content. Great info and very entertaining.
This is why I love this channel...entertaining and lots of info. Here's my 2 cents, We just put in a wood stove in our 2 story 1200sqft home and the stove is a new Lopi Rockport "high efficiency" with a catalytic combuster and re-burn tubes. It's supposed to get a 8 hour burn time but the best we ever got was maybe 7 hours with a packed stove choked down for overnight. We typically used it 12-15 hours all winter, we'd only let it die down over night and we went through about 4 cords and it wasn't a very cold winter around here. We burned mostly Maple and Ash and found once the stove was good and hot with a good bed of coals a normal piece of wood (4"x4") would last about 45 minutes to maybe 1 hour before we'd have to put another piece on. One thing we did that helped us with dispersing the heat was we put this dual 10" little window fan in our bedroom upstairs and exhausted it out and it kept the house very consistent with maybe a 2-3 degree difference between down stairs and upstairs and without it running the down stairs got way too hot. We also noticed when it was windy, specially in the high 30's to low 40's and rain we used a lot more wood to keep it the same temp. as a 20-30 degree day without wind/rain. I have a question for the more experienced...our wood was mostly right around the 20% moisture range and the top of our stove pipe (at the roof) is black from the cap down about a foot. Is that normal discoloration or creosote build up. Thanks
Hey Chris! It was great meeting the new wood cats this morn! :)). Really appreciate you putting this video together for us! I enjoyed you sharing this topic and it got me thinking that yes! there is definitely a lot to consider for that one question 💯👍. I appreciate you reaching out to hear from us subscribers. For myself, I haven’t burned wood for over 20yrs now for home heating.. but when I was in my younger years, we did for apx 20yrs back then and that was the only source we had then…. I recall we used to Order truck loads every year either in tree length or 8’ logs (I think that was the length but could be mistaken).. we would also go about an hour away an cut and buck up rounds that we would bring back in the 1/2 ton as well as we had some other property we could access with some big older hardwoods on it that were starting to die off back then or were dead standing.. we then would process with dads olde saw (we had a John Deere 65EV then, which was actually made by ECHO) an a neighbors rented splitter we used mostly every year that was wore right out an the olde Briggs likely had atleast 1 million hrs on it lol! We then would stack it all to season, then put it down the chute to the basement for winter to be restacked.. I’m guessing that we had 4-5 full cords in there an that got us through the winters here many years ago up in central NB. House was average size split entry type. Anyways that’s about all I can offer for experience that I can remember… I really miss doing wood… I miss every aspect of it! I’m taking steps now to try to get back into it… your channel has been a really great motivator for me over this past while and I really wanted to thank you for that! You do a really great job at your business and it’s super awesome that you have invited us all along on your journey with you! Like I said I’ll always be checking out your videos daily! Truly my #1 channel on UA-cam I watch the most! Thanks again Chris! We’ll see you tomorrow! GNI! Andrew from NB, Canada :)
G’morning Fellow Firewood Fanatics. In East Central Minnesota, we use 8-10 facecords in our 2020 epa wood stove. 2000 sq ft split level. Our gas furnace will run in the morning when it’s single digits. We get 94.672% of our heat from wood. Burn white/red oak and white ash. 24/7 from mid October to mid April. GoodNightIrene
Here’s an answer for ya from southwest michigan. We burn outside fire pit for fun and I supply my parents with camping firewood. We also have a solo stove which I cut smaller pieces for. We go thru about 2 cord. Ash, maple, and oak…….
Hi Chris, I always look forward to your videos. We have a Lopi fireplace insert. It is rated 76 percent efficiency. We keep heat at 67-68 degrees. Our house is 2400 sq. Ft. I burn about 6 full cords a year. We burn popular and balsam during day hours with damper open and birch, maple ,ash, ironwood and oak at night with damper closed. I also burn 2-3 full chords in fire pit and 4-5 full chords in insulated garage. We live in far northern Minnesota. We have never had any problems burning balsam in our fireplace. Just make sure it is dry and bark less is better. Thanks for all your videos. Hope to meet you some time.
Indeed Chris, it varies greatly- in the 3 1/2 yrs in NW Arizona chino valley. We were very new to buying and burning wood. Thanks to you we get off the counch/ internet and bought logs and started processing our own wood stores. We'd been burning 3-4 cords of wood in a large wood stove for heating our whole house (approx 3200sqft). This year we have burned 6 cords and on our way to 7 cords as temps during the day have been just relatively cold and normally we burn at night and 5-6 pcs in the morning and then we let it go out. Most of our wood had been pine and elm or shaggy bark juniper. This year we got a bunch of Oak and I got bit!! it heats much better last way longer than pine or juniper. if I can get more I will but there's not a ton of it around here. and I truly have learned a ton of greats hacks and your show is very educational!! Thank you for doing what you do!! I use a bunch of your splitting techniques.
Hi Chris, up here in Northern Ontario, Canada, I have been heating the house (built in 1945 and about 1000 square feet one level) for over 20 years. Since being retired, I am at home more often in the winter, now go through about 6 full cords of mainly poplar and yellow birch (no pine) in my woodstove.
Hi Chris, I always enjoy hearing how much wood people use to heat their home. We're in South Central Indiana and heat our 1,434 SF with 2 wood stoves. A Vermont Castings Encore on the main floor and a smaller wood stove, heating about 600 sf in the basement. We burn mostly Ash, some oak, maple, hickory, and beach. We average about 2 full cords a year. All my wood is dried for at least 2 years and kept in a barn. I currently have 5 years' worth of firewood and cutting and stacking more. Over 50 years of heating with wood and still loving every single fire I build. We also enjoy summer campfires and cookouts. At 71, I still love bucking logs and splitting firewood. Great exercise and therapeutic ! I really enjoyed reading all the comments, except the guy bitching about the cats. Great video, Chris! Be safe, and have a blessed Easter.
Southwest suburbs of Chitcago. Like you Chris, I’m in town. Firewood is for fire pit in the backyard or the fireplace in the family room. We go through about a face cord per year and it’s mostly ash but we’ll burn any type of wood we can get our hands on.
I’m 20 minutes from the Canadian border in the thumb of Michigan. I burn a lot of ash in the house. Just a wood stove insert. I have barrel stove in the garage. It can take up 2.5 feet pieces. We probably burn about 15 to 20 facecords a year minimum. Cousin Jason
My house is about two thousand square feet two floors basement not included, January 2022 when I install a good wood stove that’s how I’m been heating my house since then, Northern Rhode Island winters are cold some not so much, I’m going through about 5 full cords, mixed wood! I buy 3 out of 5 from a relative of mine, $200 dollars each the other three I collect from my job. I don’t regret a big the money I safe on oil, I’m so thankful for what I learn and will learn more from you!
The new darker cat is a tortie (tortoiseshell fur). Very sweet cats, and 99% of them are female. We rescued a young one last fall that was hanging around the deer camp. VERY sweet girl!! Keep up the cat content---I LOVE it. Real men love cats!! (and dogs)
Hey everyone, Washington state here, we have a 2k sqft rambler, we use our secondary air wood stove for our heat all winter long (October-March) and we go through about 2-3 cords a year depending on the winter we have. We primarily burn a mix of Doug fir, alder and maple with some yellow birch mixed in. My wife likes to keep the house hot so we burn a little more than most would in our area because of that. But happy wife happy life! Keep up the great videos Chris!
No problem with the cats, as a matter of fact I believe they were there first and you invaded their space and routines😉. Have a great Easter, Chris and family!
North Central Michigan(Grayling Area) 1600sq ft. Outdoor boiler. Try to burn dry hardwood only and go through 5 to 7 full cords a year depending on weather
Good Morning I go with the three times more rule. If you are doing a job, plan on it taking three times more time. If you are budgeting something, figure three times more than your balk park figure. Wood, three times more. It does not cost much to feed and if tacked properly. it will not spoil. Plus that will save you from paying three times more on your next order Cute cats and I hope you find the perfect beavers.
I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains in SWest Va and this winter I only burnt about two cords but last winter I went through about five. Just the difference in the winters as this winter was very mild. I have a house that’s around 2500 sq.ft. and i burn mostly Red/White Oak w/a little Locust and Hickory
We live 100 miles north of Greenbay WI . 3 bedroom ranch fair to poor insulation and windows. 70s vintage Humble forced air furnace . 9 to 12 FACECORDS per year to keep the house around the mid 70s. Sauna , garage , smoker and oversized fire pit 3 to 5 facecords. Mix of redoak, hard and soft maple birch , poplar and some soft woods that may have gotten in the way.
Good morning Chris. Another great video! I'm in Bradford County in upstate PA. Our house is about 3500 sq.ft. and my workshop is about 400 sq.ft. We heat with a Central Boiler outdoor furnace. I burn anything and everything. Primarily mixed hardwoods and some pine. You can't burn pine alone because it won't hold a spark when the draft is closed. Depending on the severity of the winter, 10-12 cords of wood is what we use. Started my firewood business last year so I'm able to burn a lot of the cookies and other non-saleable wood and debris that come off the processor. Basically heating for "free" so to speak. Have a great day! Mitch
We're in northern Missouri and use wood for augmentation. Our stove is fairly high efficiency. We have a ~1600 sq/ft earth bermed, south-facing house and we burn ~4 face cords per year. The wood we're burning is a mixture of black walnut, white oak, osage orange, and locust. I gather it from our property and it's all down or dead standing. I'm finishing up insulating my shop and have installed a home made stove which is not going to be very efficient I don't imagine. I expect I'll burn at least 2 additional full cords of wood next year to heat the shop. Great stuff, Chris!
North Idaho, Wood stove in 1500 sf house, 4-5-6 cords. I've noticed an increase since I retired and I am at home more. 3000 sf workshop, large wood stove, 4 to 5 cords, only heat occasionally. It's all seasoned softwood, mainly Douglas Fir, Western Larch, Grand Fir. I mix in a little wet or half seasoned wood sometimes to stretch the supply out. A basic rule would be about 4 cords per 1000 sf of house in the northern tier states, regular wood stove burning 24/7. Any less would require starting new fires multiple times per day.
I am in northeast Kansas and I heat with wood. I go through about 2 cords a year in my wood stove. I always burn dry seasoned hardwoods and my house is very insulated and tight. Mostly oak and locust with some elm and hackberry. Love your channel and watch all the time.
I used to have a Vermont casting wood stove. Very good heater and quite efficient. 2 story 3 bedroom house. I would burn about 15-20 facecord of wood a year. It was southeast Michigan. North Oakland county. Mixed wood. Ash oak maple. My house now I don’t have a wood stove but do have a chimney cut off at the roof. So I will need to cut open the roof and add to the chimney about 6’. Then put in a wood stove or small wood furnace. 1200 cubic foot house.
Thoughts and prayers going out to those families of the fallen Law Enforcement Officers and those closest to them. From the Barron County Incident on Saturday afternoon.
Northern VT here. We have a 2100 sq/ft colonial built in 2003, with a Vermont Castings Defiant wood stove. We use about 4 full cords a year as primary heat. Oak, Hard Maple and Ash are the woods I tend to have the most of.
Hi Chris, I've heated my homes in southern Minnesota with wood since 1997, but I installed my current system in October 2012. I have a Central Boiler eClassic 2400 plus I burn some wood in a fireplace insert in my basement. I have a 2 story house built in 2006 with about 1400 square feet per floor plus full basement. We keep the house temperature at 70° F and heat our water with the outdoor burner during the heating season. I also heat my 40ft X 45ft shop and keep that temperature around 55° F. The shop is insulated and has 12 foot sidewalls. I primarily burn red elm, ash, red oak and some sugar maple with some other hardwoods mixed in. I go through about 15 cords of seasoned wood per year. As you mentioned, burning high moisture wood and lower quality wood increases the quantity. I prefer a wood mix, but don't mind burning all ash if I have a lot of it.
Great video. Great information. Southeast Tennessee. 2000 sf. Natural Gas heat pump. I don’t cut wood. I don’t burn wood. I just really enjoy this channel!!!
I figured once you got all those fancy new bowls you would come out one monday morning and have more cats. We burn 6 cords of Ash and mixed hardwoods here in the Philly area. We have a woodstove we run 24/7 all winter in about 2,500 square feet of poorly insulated farm house. It helps a lot but doesn't get the whole house. With the Ash Borer going crazy around here ( like you have ) if you can't find free firewood you ain't looking. Good explanation of the btu value and volume of different species of wood.
Don’t have wood, don’t burn wood. I am just nosy about cutting, splitting and stacking wood and love watching you do all those with the wood cats. 😮😮😮😊😊😊😊
We live in northern New England and heat 2500 sf house with a newer high efficiency Jotel wood stove. The only month of the year that we haven’t had a fire to at least take the chill out of the basement is July. We buy 6 cords of log length at a time and cut/split ourselves, typically maple, ash, beech and yellow birch and in the shoulder seasons a short fire with fir or spruce. Plus whatever comes down on our property in storms. The stove is awesome, really efficient- we burn about 5 cords a year but the house is also fairly well insulated.
U.K based. Use a log burner in sitting room to supplement and to minimise the use of our mains gas central heating. Use about 4 face cords a year burning mainly in the evening and weekends. All mixed hardwood which is mainly ash, beech, oak, birch and cherry.
Hi Chris, I live in a 1,100 sq.ft. house in SW Minnesota. I heat the house with a 41 yr. old Reliant Volcano II wood furnace with a fan with thermostat. I will probably use 7 1/2 to 8 cords of wood in this heating season. We also have a small LP gas space heater for extra heat & when we are gone for periods of time. I cut,split, stack, move the wood to a wood shed & to the basement with help from my wife. This is my 41st year of heating with wood. It has worn me down but saved me a bunch of money.
Also the house a 2 store over 100 yrs. old & NOT insulated well. Chris, I’m scheduled for hip replacement the 19th of April. Maybe to much wood hauling!
I burn 1 cord a year in a Pacific Energy Stove only below 50° between 3 p.m. & 9 p.m. with a door and window open keeps temp. about 74° - 77° . close up the house and holds temp. above 65° until 5 a.m. than furnace takes over till sun comes up for the daytime temp of 70°.
In RI we do about 8 full cord of white oak, red oak, ash, soft maple, shag bark hickory mix in a 2300sqf cape. Heat source is an indoor wood boiler which radiates heat in the basement and warms the first level floors. It heats the baseboard forced hot water system as well as the hot water.
If you're going for the record, I know of a big ol' 3 story uninsulated frame house that uses 9 cords per winter. I've asked, but nobody will tell me, what's the prize?
I know of someone who has idk what size house but its a 3 bed trailer house, it has a fireplace and that's what's they use all year round to heat with, located o n NE Montana they use about 5-6 cords of poplar and cottonwood trees
I'm in Southern Illinois, about an hour or so south of St. Louis right next to the Mississippi. When we were heating with wood, we had an indoor wood furnace supplimented with a gas furnace. We would average about 3 1/2 cords per year with the War Department keeping the house at nothing less than 80°F inside, some years a little less, some years a little more. Our insurance company made us remove the indoor wood furnace, they were convinced that it was going to cause the house to burn down. We had some "heated" discussions on this issue... but as always, big money wins. We took our wood burner out and now heat with high efficency gas for the past 5 years. I started cutting wood again this year and am planning on selling... starting to think about getting a high efficiency boiler also. The gas heat just isn't the same as the wood heat... not by a long shot. So far I've got 4+ cords cut split and stacked, and probably 3+ cords that need to be split and stacked. My problem is turning out to be getting wood... I need a supplier, LOL
6-8 full cord a year. 2800 sq ft tri level home built in 1976. NW corner of Oregon. 100% seasoned douglas fir. Two wood stove inserts in brick fireplaces.
I have a proposal. To answer that question probably requires the answer to about 60 or 70 questions. As a group or group of subscribers let us put together a list of questions. Your Son can compile the questions into a list. First question: Sole source of heat? Second question: Stove (what type/size)? Boiler (ditto). Fireplace? Third question: Does your spouse add wood or start a fire if alone? Fourth question: Do you want a warm house, cool house? For example my spouse wants 80F as much as possible. That takes more wood, but our climate allows that to be possible. 65 more questions. Final thought. I process my own free wood. If I had to burn wood that I was "buying" I would have to have gas or electric heat because buying wood would be more expensive in my area. So many variables. Good video.
Northern Minnesota here. Live in an old 3 Bedroom trailer. Have older Central boiler classic. Burn about 11 full cords. Prefer Tamarack when I can get it. Start my boiler around October first and shut it down around the middle of May.
I cut all my own wood and sell a small bit here in NE Kansas. I burn about 8 or 9 full cords in my wood stove - burn 24-7 from End of September through April, sill burning now to supplement electric furnace for nights when the outside temperature gets below comfortable. I keep my house about 75 degrees Fahrenheit and most of the heat is from wood burning. I burn mostly Osage Orange (hedge), but oak, hickory, locust, and some hackberry as I get them to cut.
This winter in Ohio I burnt 5 to 6 cords of wood . A house and garage . I have a 10 cord woodshed which I segregate the wood . I use 32 degrees as the deciding factor what I burn . Always use more cherry maple than oak hickory and locust . But that's in a mild winter . Bet there a lot of long comments on this !
We burn a full cord or 2 in the fire pit up at the cabin. We do cook most meals over the wood fire. Because of that, the fire is usually going all weekend. We have had a lot of trees die off in the last few years , so I throw more on just to get rid of it. I try to save the oak for cooking. But have alot of oak now. I cut 4 to 5 cords of fire wood of oak, plus have a dozen logs that are waiting to be sawed into boards from storm damage.
In so cal, we use 1/4 cord hardwood in fireplace and outside firepit in total. Mom's homestead in N Minnesota was a big deal. 3 story house, burner in basement, pipe to each floor. Plus all cooking for 9 people wood stove. Total annual oak (came from our woods) consumption was 13 cords.
Central Illinois, 3 bedroom ranch (not well insulated, built in 1962), Pacific Energy insert (about 70% efficient )in basement. Burn about 4 cords of mixed hardwoods - oak, locust, mulberry, ash, cherry or whatever I can get my hands on. Keeps basement very toasty, main part of house comfortable and far bedrooms upstairs a bit chilly. Natural gas furnace is my backup heat and with the mild winter we had, only ran about 10 hours or less. Usually doesn’t kick on until outside temps get to mid 20s or less. Good videos, keep up the good work!
Hey Chris, you did a great job of discussing this topic and you addressed several questions and variables that directly impact the amount of wood a person uses during a full heating season. However, I would like to know how much wood you are going to need in your new wood yard to meet sales demands for next season. Do you have a goal for the number of cords that you want to have ready to sell for this fall? If so, how many cords do you think you will need to supply your customers? Any rough estimates? Thanks for another visit to the new wood yard and enjoy the warmer weather.
That is a great question and my goal is pretty simple...as much wood as I can produce as fast as I can for as long as I can. I can sell as much as I can produce and if I don't it is like money (wood) in the bank for next year. Thanks for watching!
So in central NY not NYC, I have a central boiler 4030 in our 14x70 mobil home we go through 15 face cord, 5 full cord a year of ash, maple, cherry, some mix or not so good wood willow ext. We also have an indoor wood stove in the garage 14x40 we go through another 5 face cord or more depending on what we have going on that year.
We burn about 10 full cords a year in a outdoor boiler. We live in west central Wisconsin. Half oak and the rest is anything I get for free. We heat about 2000 square foot house and a 26 x 24 shop. We also enjoy you interacting we the cats. Keep up the good work
Northern Maine 3400 sqft built to Canadian tree hugger eco blah blah highly insulated. Large stove in main part of house and fireplace in living room. Heat about 80% of the season with wood. 3-4cds mixed hardwood. Thanks for the content Chris! Inspired me to start a side hustle with my son (15) and we’ve got 34 cords put up this winter
Very nice! You and you son will do well and he will learn a lot about hard work, running a business and how to deal with people...all great life skills!
We have heated our house in western Connecticut for forty years. 1200 sq. ft., 1956 ranch house. Very efficient Woodstock Soapstone stove, we use 3-4 full cords of wood a year.
Subscriber here/lives in from Liverpool, UK. Winter is -5C on average (23F) Nov- March. Got rid of the central heating and now run two multi fuel burners (Heta 45). Go through 6-10 builders bags (90cm X 90cm X 90cm) of kiln dried hardwood each winter.
I heat our home completely with wood, 2 high-efficiency woodstoves, one is 8kw, the other 4.5kw. Our house is in north-east England, a 'normal' 1930s semi-detached 3-bedroom solid-walled house. Don't know the area of the house but our houses in the UK are a lot smaller than over in the USA. Also, we don't get our wood in cords. Those who do buy, usually get a 'tonne bag' which is about 0.6 or 0,7 of a cubic metre. If filled with gravel, or sand, it weighs 1000 kg, but filled with seasoned hardwood logs, thrown in, you're looking at maybe 350 to 450kg. I don't buy wood. I'm a green and have a load carrying bike and go and find my own wood. I use a battery chainsaw which charges off my solar panels, and loppers and pruning saw. I do tree jobs for people, and bring home the material for stacking and drying, and the smaller stuff gets shredded in an electric shredder for composting. I also scavenge, finding bits and bobs of wood - sometimes hauled out of rivers, sometimes in skips or dumpsters. I have absolutely no idea how much we go through! All I know is I like my drying piles to be full, and I only use the stuff which has been air-drying for a year or two. i burn anything - recently found a fallen poplar in the park, so dismembered that. I love hawthorn, apple, cherry, birch, but will burn anything. The UK has loads of Leylandii, planted in the 70s and 80s as quick-growing hedges, and they sometimes grow into huge monsters.... they have really sticky resin, but once dry, burn absolutely fine. They're seen as a nuisance tree and are always getting cut down. So, that's my story. Fully wood-warmed since my late teens when a huge mushroom trip made me fall in love with the Earth and start to despise fossil-fuel-powered society.
Sounds like you have a good system! But if just a few other people in your area were like you, you would have to buy all your wood because the competition would be stiff! Your bike tires are made from oil and most of the roads you ride on and all plastic you use plus many other things you use like electricity from fossil fuel. I am for ALL fuel/power sources we have available! Keep cuttin'!
Central MN. 5000 sq ft old farm house. I burn 7-8 full cords on a Central Boiler 760. Keep my thermostat in the low 70's. Usually 2-3 cords of a lower btu mix like box elder, basswood, silver maple. Than 4-5 cords of a solid hardwood. Ash, elm, burr oak, red oak, and the king of them all...hard maple. All is scrounged for free.
Hey Chris. I live in upstate ny in a 180 year old house that we have tightened up as best as we can. I used about 12 facecord of mixed hardwoods this year.We have a new Drolet wood stove ( which I highly suggest) that is easy on the wood and is easier to control the heat then the older models. We kept the house at about 72 all winter.
Southern Illinois . 7-10 full cords.I live in a 1950s home with a forced air wood furnace in a room attached to the house. I burn a mix of atleast 1 year dried Red&White Oak,Ash,Hickory when I can get it.
Southwest Missouri 40x40 shop heats with only wood. 2k sq ft ranch burning wood during wake hours and propane at night. 5.5 cords total. All hardwood, mostly oak.
Northern Ohio. 3500 sq ft house. About 4 cords a year to heat house with 1970’s all nighter wood stove. Something I’ve noticed over years…. High btu rated woods over fire my stove easily so I assume a lot of heat goes also goes out the chimney. Soft maples and some other lesser btu woods fire stove just fine. My point…. No need to be wood snob, I burn whatever blows down throughout the year, dies, or tree service provided. I am no expert but I love wood heat and In The Woodyard!
East Tennessee here south of the Smokies in the Cherokee National Forest 1460 Sq feet and only heat with wood..1.5-2 cords per year depending on weather... Oh and yes I'm a oak snob...😂😂 Goodnight Irene
I have an Energy King wood indoor furnace. I have had it for 15 years. It is my third wood furnace. It has held up well but it is the most inefficient furnace that I have ever had. My old furnace would use about 6 cords a year but the company had gone out of business by the time I needed a new furnace. The Energy King uses at least 10 cords a year. Thank goodness I live in the middle of 45 acres of mature forest and have plenty of wood to cut. I have never had to cut a live tree because one acre of woods produces 1 cord of wood a year by natural selection. through dying and storm damage. I havn't paid to heat my house since 1981. It costs me money to heat with wood, but I love cutting wood and it is good exercise and I have to clean up the down trees anyway. I live in SE Ohio, and most of my wood is hickory. I have a little of everything on my land. We have oak, hickory , soft maple, tulip poplar, cherry, locust, sassafras, red elm, beech. A real mix but probably 2/3 hickory. Used to have a lot of Ash, which was my favorite all around wood. AMEN on the govt. regulation.
@@InTheWoodyard Love the cats and I would have a Tundra over any truck out there. I lost mine in a wreck last spring when I was T-boned and can't afford to replace it on my retirement. I have put over 380,000 miles on 3 different Toyota trucks. If you take care of them, they will take care of you. More than I can say for Dodge or Chevy. Ford would be my second choice but by a large margin. Keep doing what you are doing.
Here in southwest Virginia high in the mountains 3000 feet plus above sea level. My house was built in 2009 very well insulated, my exterior walls are 2x6. I have a Vermont Castings stove. Never really kept track of how much wood in a year I burn. We do use wood as our main source of heat. Just a educated guess I believe we burn on average of three full cords per year. All of the wood is mixed hardwood. Oak maple ash cherry locust. Our house is just over 1300 square feet and when it does get to hot we open the door to the garage and sometimes crack a window.
Been cutting and burning with wood for 50 years. Live in the foothills of the Oregon Cascades. Finally stopped snowing a couple days ago. We typically burn 4 to 5 cords of wood a year to heat. We burn doug fir and tamarack as well as maple , alder, bitter cherry and chinquapin . We cut our wood on USFS land and our own land. We have 2 large woodsheds and have a 4-5 year supply. Guess we're just a couple of wood maggots. 🔥
Been heating my home 37 years with 2 stoves in upstate new york. I use 12 to 15 face cords a season .maple cherry hickory ash and some hemlock and box elder among other not desireables .
Hi Chris, Good topic. Central Wisconsin here. Our home is 1200 sq. ft. Hubby and I suppliment our gas furnace heat (night) with a wood burning stove (day) and use about 2 1/2 cords a year. We use pine for kindling and hardwood (mostly oak) for burning. ~ 😺The new dark colored kitty looks like a tortie. We own one ourselves...well, she owns us! Watch out, torties have an attitude, or should I say "catitude".😺 Blessings and Happy Easter!
I found a discussion comparing Torties (Tortoise Shell) and Calico cats - "If a cat with a tri-colored coat comes to mind (most commonly white, orange, and black), you’re actually thinking of a calico cat! " So, Some might call it a Tortie, some might call it a Calico. I would leave the final call to AnnMarie - since she is paying for most of the food.
Maine... 3200 SF house, although the top floor I do not heat... I like to sleep in the cold. House is 123 year old house, so still insulating it, and older woodstove. I burn nothing but seasoned wood, and this year went through 8 !/2 cords and am out. I typically burn oak, birch, maple, cherry , ash and save the oak for the colder months of the year.I wish that I lived closer to you Chris, I'd be buying wood right now as well HA!
I definitely do, and it's always a work in progress with an older house. I also catch a lot of wind here, and my wood dries pretty quickly. In fact, I stacked a cord of green oak last April 3, and it was dry just a couple of weeks ago. ...and of course it is pretty much all gone.
North Ms, this is the first winter burning only wood in this house. So I’m hoping it’s same as Last house was around 2 cords for whole year.. but it’s seasoned oak. Or some form of hard wood!
from South Central Nebraska we have a 24 hundred square foot home ...upstairs and the basement.... we have a fire place and an outside wood burner for really cold periods. Normally the the fire place with over head fans going heats very well. We burn a lot of ash now but have used elm, mulberry, etc...our home is very well insulated. My wife likes it a bit cooler then I do...LOL so she gets her way. we go through about a face cord in the outside wood burner when needed and abut cord of split dry wood in the fire place.
West michigan, 3 miles from the big lake. I use about 9-10 cords of oak/hard maple/beech a year in an inefficient woodstove insert to heat 4200 sq foot house
Great discussion, Chris! I go through 2-3 cords of oak a year heating our house 24/7 with a Blaze King Princess fireplace insert in western NC. We load it up in the evening and don't touch it till the next evening unless it gets down in the teens. If it's in the teens or lower we'll add a couple of splits in the afternoon. Love the efficiency of our Blaze King insert!
Mid state NC, 1700 sq ft, use freestanding wood stove in basement to supplement heat pump, oak most desired, cooler days use the lighter wood. Average winter 2.5 ish cords
Central Canada, use wood to supplement the heat, burn in a wood stove and fireplace insert, house about 2000sq ft, burn hard wood, maple cherry ash. Use about 4 full cord, or 12 face cords. Some years a little less. Love the channel, watch daily!
We've got a two story old farmhouse (2400sqft) in western Iowa with a living room wood stove for primary heat. We burn 3-4 full cords per year of free ash, elm, walnut, soft maple, and mulberry. We're saving $2000/year on electricity since switching to wood heat.
That is great and wood heat is the best!
The simple answer is always more, it’s like bacon you can never have too much bacon
Truer words have rarely been spoken.
Well said, Steve 😁👍
Chocolate. But then should it be milk, dark or , bakers,
Ha! Yup, I agree!
yup!
I appreciate that you took the time to address new people to your craft.
At one time we were all pooping yellow in our diapers. Everyone has a story and a different experience level.
Some were born into the logging heritage. Others could not find their butts with both hands.
Some learn as babies, others might be senior citizens, but they all have the drive to learn.
Be proud of who you are and what you know, but never forget where you came from.
Thank You Chris for paying it forward.
I will be 64 this year and I was not to proud to ask an eleven year old to tutor me on how to use a chromebook.
He's pretty darn good at offering some perspectives that others don't or won't consider.
He very well may be on his way to becoming the Tom Snyder of the Wood Yard World
Yup, we can all learn something from everyone else!
Thanks Jean, I just listen to others questions and ask how can the answer help others.
@Two Beards When I retired, I hung up the pager, phone, portable radio, and my watch. If I had a fax machine, I am sure it would have been unplugged. The third graders in the school system here are all given chromebooks at the start of the school year. Everything is digital. I commend any senior who endures the frustration of the digital age.
Just love how you take care of the Cats Chris
Thanks Lisa!
Great explanation Chris to the question as always!
Thanks Lisa!
Chris I hope that you and your family have a Blessed Easter weekend .
We are all together right now! Thanks Tim!
What an Awesome Channel!!! I listen to Chris everyday!
Awesome, thank you Bryan!
NE Texas, 1957 pier and beam three bedroom frame house, maybe 1500 square feet, poor insulation and drafty, nice Franklin wood stove (2'x2'x1.5'), burning red oak and hickory. Over the last 15 years, I have averaged about one full cord per year. It really needs to be 45 degrees before starting a fire, or it will get too hot in the house.
Wow, that is not much wood but great that you have oak and hickory!
@@InTheWoodyard Yeah, we are fortunate to have enough trees on the property that we never have to cut green wood. Just by harvesting the few trees that die each year on the 22 acres, we have plenty to burn, and still leave brushpiles for the woodland critters.
Since we avoid firing up the stove unless it gets down to the mid 40's outside, we save a lot of wood. It's just easier to put on a sweater to stay warm, as we have incidental heat sources such as PCs, TVs, propane water heater, and cooking to help keep the inside temps comfortable.
We had a number of trees blow down in storms recently, so we have a bumper crop of firewood to process. We are thinking of maybe selling some. That is why we have been watching your content. Great info and very entertaining.
This is why I love this channel...entertaining and lots of info. Here's my 2 cents, We just put in a wood stove in our 2 story 1200sqft home and the stove is a new Lopi Rockport "high efficiency" with a catalytic combuster and re-burn tubes. It's supposed to get a 8 hour burn time but the best we ever got was maybe 7 hours with a packed stove choked down for overnight. We typically used it 12-15 hours all winter, we'd only let it die down over night and we went through about 4 cords and it wasn't a very cold winter around here. We burned mostly Maple and Ash and found once the stove was good and hot with a good bed of coals a normal piece of wood (4"x4") would last about 45 minutes to maybe 1 hour before we'd have to put another piece on. One thing we did that helped us with dispersing the heat was we put this dual 10" little window fan in our bedroom upstairs and exhausted it out and it kept the house very consistent with maybe a 2-3 degree difference between down stairs and upstairs and without it running the down stairs got way too hot. We also noticed when it was windy, specially in the high 30's to low 40's and rain we used a lot more wood to keep it the same temp. as a 20-30 degree day without wind/rain. I have a question for the more experienced...our wood was mostly right around the 20% moisture range and the top of our stove pipe (at the roof) is black from the cap down about a foot. Is that normal discoloration or creosote build up. Thanks
Yup, wind AND cold will make you use more wood! Clean you chimney and cap at least once a year!!!
Hey Chris!
It was great meeting the new wood cats this morn! :)). Really appreciate you putting this video together for us! I enjoyed you sharing this topic and it got me thinking that yes! there is definitely a lot to consider for that one question 💯👍. I appreciate you reaching out to hear from us subscribers. For myself, I haven’t burned wood for over 20yrs now for home heating.. but when I was in my younger years, we did for apx 20yrs back then and that was the only source we had then…. I recall we used to Order truck loads every year either in tree length or 8’ logs (I think that was the length but could be mistaken).. we would also go about an hour away an cut and buck up rounds that we would bring back in the 1/2 ton as well as we had some other property we could access with some big older hardwoods on it that were starting to die off back then or were dead standing.. we then would process with dads olde saw (we had a John Deere 65EV then, which was actually made by ECHO) an a neighbors rented splitter we used mostly every year that was wore right out an the olde Briggs likely had atleast 1 million hrs on it lol! We then would stack it all to season, then put it down the chute to the basement for winter to be restacked.. I’m guessing that we had 4-5 full cords in there an that got us through the winters here many years ago up in central NB. House was average size split entry type. Anyways that’s about all I can offer for experience that I can remember… I really miss doing wood… I miss every aspect of it! I’m taking steps now to try to get back into it… your channel has been a really great motivator for me over this past while and I really wanted to thank you for that! You do a really great job at your business and it’s super awesome that you have invited us all along on your journey with you! Like I said I’ll always be checking out your videos daily! Truly my #1 channel on UA-cam I watch the most! Thanks again Chris! We’ll see you tomorrow! GNI! Andrew from NB, Canada :)
Thanks so much Andrew for the stroll down memory lane with your wood making history! See you tomorrow!
G’morning Fellow Firewood Fanatics. In East Central Minnesota, we use 8-10 facecords in our 2020 epa wood stove. 2000 sq ft split level. Our gas furnace will run in the morning when it’s single digits. We get 94.672% of our heat from wood. Burn white/red oak and white ash.
24/7 from mid October to mid April. GoodNightIrene
Are you sure it is not 94.673%? That would be betterer.
Here’s an answer for ya from southwest michigan. We burn outside fire pit for fun and I supply my parents with camping firewood. We also have a solo stove which I cut smaller pieces for. We go thru about 2 cord. Ash, maple, and oak…….
Nice of you to help out the parents!
Good morning Chris I use about 3 to 4 face cords it helps with the heating bill
Sounds great Tim!
Hi Chris, I always look forward to your videos. We have a Lopi fireplace insert. It is rated 76 percent efficiency. We keep heat at 67-68 degrees. Our house is 2400 sq. Ft. I burn about 6 full cords a year. We burn popular and balsam during day hours with damper open and birch, maple ,ash, ironwood and oak at night with damper closed. I also burn 2-3 full chords in fire pit and 4-5 full chords in insulated garage. We live in far northern Minnesota. We have never had any problems burning balsam in our fireplace. Just make sure it is dry and bark less is better. Thanks for all your videos. Hope to meet you some time.
Yup, all wood burns! I love northern Minnesota!
Indeed Chris, it varies greatly- in the 3 1/2 yrs in NW Arizona chino valley. We were very new to buying and burning wood. Thanks to you we get off the counch/ internet and bought logs and started processing our own wood stores. We'd been burning 3-4 cords of wood in a large wood stove for heating our whole house (approx 3200sqft). This year we have burned 6 cords and on our way to 7 cords as temps during the day have been just relatively cold and normally we burn at night and 5-6 pcs in the morning and then we let it go out. Most of our wood had been pine and elm or shaggy bark juniper. This year we got a bunch of Oak and I got bit!! it heats much better last way longer than pine or juniper. if I can get more I will but there's not a ton of it around here. and I truly have learned a ton of greats hacks and your show is very educational!! Thank you for doing what you do!! I use a bunch of your splitting techniques.
Thanks so much for watching and your wood information!!
I couldn’t agree more with your two sense of the day!!!
Thanks Rian!
Hi Chris, up here in Northern Ontario, Canada, I have been heating the house (built in 1945 and about 1000 square feet one level) for over 20 years. Since being retired, I am at home more often in the winter, now go through about 6 full cords of mainly poplar and yellow birch (no pine) in my woodstove.
Nice, that poplar burns nice but fast and the yellow birch is great long burn firewood good combo!
Good Saturday Mornin Woodhounds!!
Hello Greg!!!
Hi Chris, I always enjoy hearing how much wood people use to heat their home. We're in South Central Indiana and heat our 1,434 SF with 2 wood stoves. A Vermont Castings Encore on the main floor and a smaller wood stove, heating about 600 sf in the basement. We burn mostly Ash, some oak, maple, hickory, and beach. We average about 2 full cords a year. All my wood is dried for at least 2 years and kept in a barn. I currently have 5 years' worth of firewood and cutting and stacking more. Over 50 years of heating with wood and still loving every single fire I build. We also enjoy summer campfires and cookouts. At 71, I still love bucking logs and splitting firewood. Great exercise and therapeutic !
I really enjoyed reading all the comments, except the guy bitching about the cats.
Great video, Chris! Be safe, and have a blessed Easter.
Thanks so much for the firewood info! Keep cutting!
Great question and great answer. I agree.
Thanks!!
Great info. Good job!
Thanks!
Southwest suburbs of Chitcago. Like you Chris, I’m in town. Firewood is for fire pit in the backyard or the fireplace in the family room. We go through about a face cord per year and it’s mostly ash but we’ll burn any type of wood we can get our hands on.
Yup, all wood burns!
3 1/2 cords for 1800sf in CT. Stove is a fireplace insert burning mostly premium hardwoods.
Thanks for the info!
I’m 20 minutes from the Canadian border in the thumb of Michigan. I burn a lot of ash in the house. Just a wood stove insert. I have barrel stove in the garage. It can take up 2.5 feet pieces. We probably burn about 15 to 20 facecords a year minimum. Cousin Jason
Thanks for the info Jason, keep cuttin'!
My house is about two thousand square feet two floors basement not included, January 2022 when I install a good wood stove that’s how I’m been heating my house since then, Northern Rhode Island winters are cold some not so much, I’m going through about 5 full cords, mixed wood! I buy 3 out of 5 from a relative of mine, $200 dollars each the other three I collect from my job. I don’t regret a big the money I safe on oil, I’m so thankful for what I learn and will learn more from you!
That is awesome! Thanks for the info Hileberto!
The new darker cat is a tortie (tortoiseshell fur). Very sweet cats, and 99% of them are female. We rescued a young one last fall that was hanging around the deer camp. VERY sweet girl!! Keep up the cat content---I LOVE it. Real men love cats!! (and dogs)
Thanks so much Paul, the torties name is Skidmark.
Wife says the “ugly” one is a tortoise shell and a girl kitty. If it is a boy with those colors it’s rare!
I live in the Shenandoah valley of VA in a 900 square foot ranch two bedrooms. I use about two cords a year to comfortably heat the house.
Nice, small house is good for small wood piles!
Hey everyone, Washington state here, we have a 2k sqft rambler, we use our secondary air wood stove for our heat all winter long (October-March) and we go through about 2-3 cords a year depending on the winter we have. We primarily burn a mix of Doug fir, alder and maple with some yellow birch mixed in. My wife likes to keep the house hot so we burn a little more than most would in our area because of that. But happy wife happy life! Keep up the great videos Chris!
Yup, keep the boss/wife happy!
No problem with the cats, as a matter of fact I believe they were there first and you invaded their space and routines😉. Have a great Easter, Chris and family!
Very true! But I do feed them!
North Central Michigan(Grayling Area) 1600sq ft. Outdoor boiler. Try to burn dry hardwood only and go through 5 to 7 full cords a year depending on weather
Nice, thanks for the info Fish man!
More wood is good!
Good Morning
I go with the three times more rule.
If you are doing a job, plan on it taking three times more time.
If you are budgeting something, figure three times more than your balk park figure.
Wood, three times more. It does not cost much to feed and if tacked properly. it will not spoil. Plus that will save you from paying three times more on your next order
Cute cats and I hope you find the perfect beavers.
Yup, good plan Ann Marie, more is usually better! Thanks, say the cats!
I live in the Blue Ridge Mountains in SWest Va and this winter I only burnt about two cords but last winter I went through about five. Just the difference in the winters as this winter was very mild. I have a house that’s around 2500 sq.ft. and i burn mostly Red/White Oak w/a little Locust and Hickory
Yup,. it was a mild winter for most this past year!
@@InTheWoodyard we only had a few small snows and except for Christmas ( the temps Christmas morning was -28 w/wind chill) we stayed in the 20’s-50’s!
We live 100 miles north of Greenbay WI . 3 bedroom ranch fair to poor insulation and windows. 70s vintage Humble forced air furnace . 9 to 12 FACECORDS per year to keep the house around the mid 70s.
Sauna , garage , smoker and oversized fire pit 3 to 5 facecords.
Mix of redoak, hard and soft maple birch , poplar and some soft woods that may have gotten in the way.
That is actually not a lot of wood fro the house, sounds good that you will what ever wood is available! All wood burns!
Good morning Chris. Another great video!
I'm in Bradford County in upstate PA.
Our house is about 3500 sq.ft. and my workshop is about 400 sq.ft.
We heat with a Central Boiler outdoor furnace.
I burn anything and everything. Primarily mixed hardwoods and some pine. You can't burn pine alone because it won't hold a spark when the draft is closed.
Depending on the severity of the winter, 10-12 cords of wood is what we use.
Started my firewood business last year so I'm able to burn a lot of the cookies and other non-saleable wood and debris that come off the processor. Basically heating for "free" so to speak.
Have a great day!
Mitch
Thanks for the input Mitch!!
I'm new to firewood and i appreciate this video.
Thanks for watching!
We're in northern Missouri and use wood for augmentation. Our stove is fairly high efficiency. We have a ~1600 sq/ft earth bermed, south-facing house and we burn ~4 face cords per year. The wood we're burning is a mixture of black walnut, white oak, osage orange, and locust. I gather it from our property and it's all down or dead standing. I'm finishing up insulating my shop and have installed a home made stove which is not going to be very efficient I don't imagine. I expect I'll burn at least 2 additional full cords of wood next year to heat the shop. Great stuff, Chris!
Sounds like you have a great set up! Keep cuttin'!
North Idaho, Wood stove in 1500 sf house, 4-5-6 cords. I've noticed an increase since I retired and I am at home more. 3000 sf workshop, large wood stove, 4 to 5 cords, only heat occasionally. It's all seasoned softwood, mainly Douglas Fir, Western Larch, Grand Fir. I mix in a little wet or half seasoned wood sometimes to stretch the supply out. A basic rule would be about 4 cords per 1000 sf of house in the northern tier states, regular wood stove burning 24/7. Any less would require starting new fires multiple times per day.
Thanks for the great info!!
Central New Hampshire. Burn 3-4 full cords dry hardwood for heating. 1,000 Sq ft semi insulated, we keep it warm, around 75.
That sounds great!
8 cord to feed the outdoor boiler at the house an never enuf to supply the customers wanting clean small wood
Exactly! Thanks so much, more wood is always the mission!
I am in northeast Kansas and I heat with wood. I go through about 2 cords a year in my wood stove. I always burn dry seasoned hardwoods and my house is very insulated and tight. Mostly oak and locust with some elm and hackberry. Love your channel and watch all the time.
Thanks for sharing Scott!
I used to have a Vermont casting wood stove. Very good heater and quite efficient. 2 story 3 bedroom house. I would burn about 15-20 facecord of wood a year. It was southeast Michigan. North Oakland county. Mixed wood. Ash oak maple.
My house now I don’t have a wood stove but do have a chimney cut off at the roof. So I will need to cut open the roof and add to the chimney about 6’. Then put in a wood stove or small wood furnace. 1200 cubic foot house.
Nice, it sounds like you have work to do!
Thoughts and prayers going out to those families of the fallen
Law Enforcement Officers
and those closest to them.
From the Barron County Incident on Saturday afternoon.
Northern VT here. We have a 2100 sq/ft colonial built in 2003, with a Vermont Castings Defiant wood stove. We use about 4 full cords a year as primary heat. Oak, Hard Maple and Ash are the woods I tend to have the most of.
Nice wood selection to burn.
Hi Chris, I've heated my homes in southern Minnesota with wood since 1997, but I installed my current system in October 2012. I have a Central Boiler eClassic 2400 plus I burn some wood in a fireplace insert in my basement. I have a 2 story house built in 2006 with about 1400 square feet per floor plus full basement. We keep the house temperature at 70° F and heat our water with the outdoor burner during the heating season. I also heat my 40ft X 45ft shop and keep that temperature around 55° F. The shop is insulated and has 12 foot sidewalls. I primarily burn red elm, ash, red oak and some sugar maple with some other hardwoods mixed in. I go through about 15 cords of seasoned wood per year. As you mentioned, burning high moisture wood and lower quality wood increases the quantity. I prefer a wood mix, but don't mind burning all ash if I have a lot of it.
It sounds like you have a great system going there! Keep cuttin'!
I live in Pittsburgh and average 3 full cords of hardwood each year. Roughly 2 face cords for summer camping. Great topic tofay
Thanks for sharing Marti!
Great video. Great information. Southeast Tennessee. 2000 sf. Natural Gas heat pump. I don’t cut wood. I don’t burn wood. I just really enjoy this channel!!!
Thanks for watching Brian!!
I figured once you got all those fancy new bowls you would come out one monday morning and have more cats.
We burn 6 cords of Ash and mixed hardwoods here in the Philly area. We have a woodstove we run 24/7 all winter in about 2,500 square feet of poorly insulated farm house. It helps a lot but doesn't get the whole house. With the Ash Borer going crazy around here ( like you have ) if you can't find free firewood you ain't looking.
Good explanation of the btu value and volume of different species of wood.
Thanks so much Sodman!
Don’t have wood, don’t burn wood. I am just nosy about cutting, splitting and stacking wood and love watching you do all those with the wood cats. 😮😮😮😊😊😊😊
Cool, thanks Mr. Mudder!!!
We live in northern New England and heat 2500 sf house with a newer high efficiency Jotel wood stove. The only month of the year that we haven’t had a fire to at least take the chill out of the basement is July. We buy 6 cords of log length at a time and cut/split ourselves, typically maple, ash, beech and yellow birch and in the shoulder seasons a short fire with fir or spruce. Plus whatever comes down on our property in storms. The stove is awesome, really efficient- we burn about 5 cords a year but the house is also fairly well insulated.
Sounds like you have a great set up! Keep cuttin'!
Masonry stoves for heating a home are pretty amazing. The amount of wood need is a whole lot less than boiler or conventional wood stoves.
Good point!
U.K based. Use a log burner in sitting room to supplement and to minimise the use of our mains gas central heating. Use about 4 face cords a year burning mainly in the evening and weekends. All mixed hardwood which is mainly ash, beech, oak, birch and cherry.
Very nice, wood heat is awesome!
Hi Chris, I live in a 1,100 sq.ft. house in SW Minnesota. I heat the house with a 41 yr. old Reliant Volcano II wood furnace with a fan with thermostat. I will probably use 7 1/2 to 8 cords of wood in this heating season. We also have a small LP gas space heater for extra heat & when we are gone for periods of time. I cut,split, stack, move the wood to a wood shed & to the basement with help from my wife. This is my 41st year of heating with wood. It has worn me down but saved me a bunch of money.
The make of the wood furnace is Defiant not Reliant. It was made in Michigan I think.
Thanks for sharing your info, just think of all the exercise you have gotten over the years keeping you in super model shape!
Also the house a 2 store over 100 yrs. old & NOT insulated well. Chris, I’m scheduled for hip replacement the 19th of April. Maybe to much wood hauling!
I burn 1 cord a year in a Pacific Energy Stove only below 50° between 3 p.m. & 9 p.m. with a door and window open keeps temp. about 74° - 77° . close up the house and holds temp. above 65° until 5 a.m. than furnace takes over till sun comes up for the daytime temp of 70°.
It's nice to have a couple heat sources!
In RI we do about 8 full cord of white oak, red oak, ash, soft maple, shag bark hickory mix in a 2300sqf cape. Heat source is an indoor wood boiler which radiates heat in the basement and warms the first level floors. It heats the baseboard forced hot water system as well as the hot water.
That is a bunch of wood, sounds great! Keep cuttin'!
If you're going for the record, I know of a big ol' 3 story uninsulated frame house that uses 9 cords per winter. I've asked, but nobody will tell me, what's the prize?
@@heymakerphd1982 ?
I know of someone who has idk what size house but its a 3 bed trailer house, it has a fireplace and that's what's they use all year round to heat with, located o n NE Montana they use about 5-6 cords of poplar and cottonwood trees
Yup, all wood burns!
I'm in Southern Illinois, about an hour or so south of St. Louis right next to the Mississippi. When we were heating with wood, we had an indoor wood furnace supplimented with a gas furnace. We would average about 3 1/2 cords per year with the War Department keeping the house at nothing less than 80°F inside, some years a little less, some years a little more. Our insurance company made us remove the indoor wood furnace, they were convinced that it was going to cause the house to burn down. We had some "heated" discussions on this issue... but as always, big money wins. We took our wood burner out and now heat with high efficency gas for the past 5 years. I started cutting wood again this year and am planning on selling... starting to think about getting a high efficiency boiler also. The gas heat just isn't the same as the wood heat... not by a long shot. So far I've got 4+ cords cut split and stacked, and probably 3+ cords that need to be split and stacked. My problem is turning out to be getting wood... I need a supplier, LOL
That is to bad that the insurance company did that, I have heard of other that had the same issue.
6-8 full cord a year. 2800 sq ft tri level home built in 1976. NW corner of Oregon. 100% seasoned douglas fir. Two wood stove inserts in brick fireplaces.
Sounds nice!
I have a proposal. To answer that question probably requires the answer to about 60 or 70 questions. As a group or group of subscribers let us put together a list of questions. Your Son can compile the questions into a list. First question: Sole source of heat? Second question: Stove (what type/size)? Boiler (ditto). Fireplace? Third question: Does your spouse add wood or start a fire if alone? Fourth question: Do you want a warm house, cool house? For example my spouse wants 80F as much as possible. That takes more wood, but our climate allows that to be possible. 65 more questions. Final thought. I process my own free wood. If I had to burn wood that I was "buying" I would have to have gas or electric heat because buying wood would be more expensive in my area. So many variables. Good video.
Yup, those are some good questions and there are a lot more for sure!!!
Morning Chris. Enjoy your Beaver Trapping with Ken and be safe!👍
Yup, thanks for watching Al!
Northern Minnesota here. Live in an old 3 Bedroom trailer. Have older Central boiler classic. Burn about 11 full cords. Prefer Tamarack when I can get it. Start my boiler around October first and shut it down around the middle of May.
I would guess that your place is not insulated very well??? That is a lot of wood for a small space.
I cut all my own wood and sell a small bit here in NE Kansas. I burn about 8 or 9 full cords in my wood stove - burn 24-7 from End of September through April, sill burning now to supplement electric furnace for nights when the outside temperature gets below comfortable. I keep my house about 75 degrees Fahrenheit and most of the heat is from wood burning. I burn mostly Osage Orange (hedge), but oak, hickory, locust, and some hackberry as I get them to cut.
Yup, that Osage orange is great stuff!
I had to watch this twice... I got distracted by the cats. They're awesome and steal the show!! LOL😁
Thanks for watching, that is what matters to the UA-cam gods, more watch time!
This winter in Ohio I burnt 5 to 6 cords of wood . A house and garage . I have a 10 cord woodshed which I segregate the wood . I use 32 degrees as the deciding factor what I burn . Always use more cherry maple than oak hickory and locust . But that's in a mild winter .
Bet there a lot of long comments on this !
Yup, that sounds like a nice amount of wood. And yes everyone has great input!
We burn a full cord or 2 in the fire pit up at the cabin. We do cook most meals over the wood fire. Because of that, the fire is usually going all weekend. We have had a lot of trees die off in the last few years , so I throw more on just to get rid of it. I try to save the oak for cooking. But have alot of oak now. I cut 4 to 5 cords of fire wood of oak, plus have a dozen logs that are waiting to be sawed into boards from storm damage.
Sounds great, cooking on wood is cool!
In so cal, we use 1/4 cord hardwood in fireplace and outside firepit in total.
Mom's homestead in N Minnesota was a big deal. 3 story house, burner in basement, pipe to each floor. Plus all cooking for 9 people wood stove. Total annual oak (came from our woods) consumption was 13 cords.
Wow, so you have made a bunch of wood over the years!!!
@@InTheWoodyard later became a lineman for electric company, retired 30 years later. Had my share of splinters. 🙃
Us here in Canada, we've burnt anywhere from 8-11 face cord. Depending on the winter. Plus a bungalow we're heating
Plus we're using a wood stove
Nice! Keep cutting!
Central Illinois, 3 bedroom ranch (not well insulated, built in 1962), Pacific Energy insert (about 70% efficient )in basement. Burn about 4 cords of mixed hardwoods - oak, locust, mulberry, ash, cherry or whatever I can get my hands on. Keeps basement very toasty, main part of house comfortable and far bedrooms upstairs a bit chilly. Natural gas furnace is my backup heat and with the mild winter we had, only ran about 10 hours or less. Usually doesn’t kick on until outside temps get to mid 20s or less.
Good videos, keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for the input Tim!
Hey Chris, you did a great job of discussing this topic and you addressed several questions and variables that directly impact the amount of wood a person uses during a full heating season. However, I would like to know how much wood you are going to need in your new wood yard to meet sales demands for next season. Do you have a goal for the number of cords that you want to have ready to sell for this fall? If so, how many cords do you think you will need to supply your customers? Any rough estimates? Thanks for another visit to the new wood yard and enjoy the warmer weather.
he is going to need at least one more cord than what he sells so he has seed stock for the following year.
That is a great question and my goal is pretty simple...as much wood as I can produce as fast as I can for as long as I can. I can sell as much as I can produce and if I don't it is like money (wood) in the bank for next year. Thanks for watching!
Exactly!!!
Great discussion on this topic, Chris 👍🏼
Thanks!
So in central NY not NYC, I have a central boiler 4030 in our 14x70 mobil home we go through 15 face cord, 5 full cord a year of ash, maple, cherry, some mix or not so good wood willow ext. We also have an indoor wood stove in the garage 14x40 we go through another 5 face cord or more depending on what we have going on that year.
That sounds great, nice of you to separate the locations! Ha!!!
Cats love to photo bomb your posts .
Yes they sure do!
We burn about 10 full cords a year in a outdoor boiler. We live in west central Wisconsin. Half oak and the rest is anything I get for free. We heat about 2000 square foot house and a 26 x 24 shop. We also enjoy you interacting we the cats. Keep up the good work
Good stuff Jon, that's a bunch of wood!!
Northern Maine
3400 sqft built to Canadian tree hugger eco blah blah highly insulated. Large stove in main part of house and fireplace in living room. Heat about 80% of the season with wood. 3-4cds mixed hardwood.
Thanks for the content Chris! Inspired me to start a side hustle with my son (15) and we’ve got 34 cords put up this winter
Very nice! You and you son will do well and he will learn a lot about hard work, running a business and how to deal with people...all great life skills!
We have heated our house in western Connecticut for forty years. 1200 sq. ft., 1956 ranch house. Very efficient Woodstock Soapstone stove, we use 3-4 full cords of wood a year.
Very nice Mark, thanks!!
Subscriber here/lives in from Liverpool, UK. Winter is -5C on average (23F) Nov- March.
Got rid of the central heating and now run two multi fuel burners (Heta 45).
Go through 6-10 builders bags (90cm X 90cm X 90cm) of kiln dried hardwood each winter.
Nice! What kind of wood do you get??
@@InTheWoodyard tend to use ash, birch and oak mix. I often buy a few small bags of softwood to cut up into kindling.
I heat our home completely with wood, 2 high-efficiency woodstoves, one is 8kw, the other 4.5kw. Our house is in north-east England, a 'normal' 1930s semi-detached 3-bedroom solid-walled house. Don't know the area of the house but our houses in the UK are a lot smaller than over in the USA. Also, we don't get our wood in cords. Those who do buy, usually get a 'tonne bag' which is about 0.6 or 0,7 of a cubic metre. If filled with gravel, or sand, it weighs 1000 kg, but filled with seasoned hardwood logs, thrown in, you're looking at maybe 350 to 450kg.
I don't buy wood. I'm a green and have a load carrying bike and go and find my own wood. I use a battery chainsaw which charges off my solar panels, and loppers and pruning saw. I do tree jobs for people, and bring home the material for stacking and drying, and the smaller stuff gets shredded in an electric shredder for composting. I also scavenge, finding bits and bobs of wood - sometimes hauled out of rivers, sometimes in skips or dumpsters. I have absolutely no idea how much we go through! All I know is I like my drying piles to be full, and I only use the stuff which has been air-drying for a year or two. i burn anything - recently found a fallen poplar in the park, so dismembered that. I love hawthorn, apple, cherry, birch, but will burn anything. The UK has loads of Leylandii, planted in the 70s and 80s as quick-growing hedges, and they sometimes grow into huge monsters.... they have really sticky resin, but once dry, burn absolutely fine. They're seen as a nuisance tree and are always getting cut down.
So, that's my story. Fully wood-warmed since my late teens when a huge mushroom trip made me fall in love with the Earth and start to despise fossil-fuel-powered society.
Sounds like you have a good system! But if just a few other people in your area were like you, you would have to buy all your wood because the competition would be stiff! Your bike tires are made from oil and most of the roads you ride on and all plastic you use plus many other things you use like electricity from fossil fuel. I am for ALL fuel/power sources we have available! Keep cuttin'!
Central MN. 5000 sq ft old farm house. I burn 7-8 full cords on a Central Boiler 760. Keep my thermostat in the low 70's. Usually 2-3 cords of a lower btu mix like box elder, basswood, silver maple. Than 4-5 cords of a solid hardwood. Ash, elm, burr oak, red oak, and the king of them all...hard maple. All is scrounged for free.
That sounds great, keep cuttin'!
Hey Chris. I live in upstate ny in a 180 year old house that we have tightened up as best as we can. I used about 12 facecord of mixed hardwoods this year.We have a new Drolet wood stove ( which I highly suggest) that is easy on the wood and is easier to control the heat then the older models. We kept the house at about 72 all winter.
Thanks for sharing!
Southern Illinois . 7-10 full cords.I live in a 1950s home with a forced air wood furnace in a room attached to the house. I burn a mix of atleast 1 year dried Red&White Oak,Ash,Hickory when I can get it.
That is a bunch of wood! Sounds good!
Keep up the good content.
Southwest Missouri
40x40 shop heats with only wood.
2k sq ft ranch burning wood during wake hours and propane at night.
5.5 cords total. All hardwood, mostly oak.
Thanks for the input!
Northern Ohio. 3500 sq ft house. About 4 cords a year to heat house with 1970’s all nighter wood stove. Something I’ve noticed over years…. High btu rated woods over fire my stove easily so I assume a lot of heat goes also goes out the chimney. Soft maples and some other lesser btu woods fire stove just fine. My point…. No need to be wood snob, I burn whatever blows down throughout the year, dies, or tree service provided. I am no expert but I love wood heat and In The Woodyard!
Thanks so much for the info!
East Tennessee here south of the Smokies in the Cherokee National Forest 1460 Sq feet and only heat with wood..1.5-2 cords per year depending on weather...
Oh and yes I'm a oak snob...😂😂
Goodnight Irene
If you are going to be a snob oak is a good choice!!! Keep cuttin'!
I have an Energy King wood indoor furnace. I have had it for 15 years. It is my third wood furnace. It has held up well but it is the most inefficient furnace that I have ever had. My old furnace would use about 6 cords a year but the company had gone out of business by the time I needed a new furnace. The Energy King uses at least 10 cords a year. Thank goodness I live in the middle of 45 acres of mature forest and have plenty of wood to cut. I have never had to cut a live tree because one acre of woods produces 1 cord of wood a year by natural selection. through dying and storm damage. I havn't paid to heat my house since 1981. It costs me money to heat with wood, but I love cutting wood and it is good exercise and I have to clean up the down trees anyway. I live in SE Ohio, and most of my wood is hickory. I have a little of everything on my land. We have oak, hickory , soft maple, tulip poplar, cherry, locust, sassafras, red elm, beech. A real mix but probably 2/3 hickory. Used to have a lot of Ash, which was my favorite all around wood. AMEN on the govt. regulation.
Sounds like you have a great set up and woods! Keep cuttin'!
@@InTheWoodyard Love the cats and I would have a Tundra over any truck out there. I lost mine in a wreck last spring when I was T-boned and can't afford to replace it on my retirement. I have put over 380,000 miles on 3 different Toyota trucks. If you take care of them, they will take care of you. More than I can say for Dodge or Chevy. Ford would be my second choice but by a large margin. Keep doing what you are doing.
Here in southwest Virginia high in the mountains 3000 feet plus above sea level. My house was built in 2009 very well insulated, my exterior walls are 2x6. I have a Vermont Castings stove. Never really kept track of how much wood in a year I burn. We do use wood as our main source of heat. Just a educated guess I believe we burn on average of three full cords per year. All of the wood is mixed hardwood. Oak maple ash cherry locust. Our house is just over 1300 square feet and when it does get to hot we open the door to the garage and sometimes crack a window.
That sounds awesome!!! Great!
Big Stone Gap? Wise county??? Wife’s family is from there.
Been cutting and burning with wood for 50 years. Live in the foothills of the Oregon Cascades. Finally stopped snowing a couple days ago. We typically burn 4 to 5 cords of wood a year to heat. We burn doug fir and tamarack as well as maple , alder, bitter cherry and chinquapin . We cut our wood on USFS land and our own land. We have 2 large woodsheds and have a 4-5 year supply. Guess we're just a couple of wood maggots. 🔥
Sounds like you have a great system!
Been heating my home 37 years with 2 stoves in upstate new york. I use 12 to 15 face cords a season .maple cherry hickory ash and some hemlock and box elder among other not desireables .
You have burned a bunch of wood over the years!
Hi Chris, Good topic. Central Wisconsin here. Our home is 1200 sq. ft. Hubby and I suppliment our gas furnace heat (night) with a wood burning stove (day) and use about 2 1/2 cords a year. We use pine for kindling and hardwood (mostly oak) for burning. ~ 😺The new dark colored kitty looks like a tortie. We own one ourselves...well, she owns us! Watch out, torties have an attitude, or should I say "catitude".😺 Blessings and Happy Easter!
That cat DOES have an attitude! Haaa! It's name is "Skidmark"
@@InTheWoodyard 😂👍
I found a discussion comparing Torties (Tortoise Shell) and Calico cats - "If a cat with a tri-colored coat comes to mind (most commonly white, orange, and black), you’re actually thinking of a calico cat! " So, Some might call it a Tortie, some might call it a Calico. I would leave the final call to AnnMarie - since she is paying for most of the food.
@annmariekowalski7505 - Your name came up for an answer
Upstate NY. Central boiler, 2600 Sq ft. Mixed hardwood. 10 to 12 full cord a year. Good video, as always.
Nice! Keep cuttin'!
Maine... 3200 SF house, although the top floor I do not heat... I like to sleep in the cold. House is 123 year old house, so still insulating it, and older woodstove. I burn nothing but seasoned wood, and this year went through 8 !/2 cords and am out. I typically burn oak, birch, maple, cherry , ash and save the oak for the colder months of the year.I wish that I lived closer to you Chris, I'd be buying wood right now as well HA!
Very nice! Sounds like you need more insulation!
I definitely do, and it's always a work in progress with an older house. I also catch a lot of wind here, and my wood dries pretty quickly. In fact, I stacked a cord of green oak last April 3, and it was dry just a couple of weeks ago. ...and of course it is pretty much all gone.
Can never have enough firewood.
3000 sqft home with a hot air wood furnace and use approx 5 cords of hardwood. Southwest Nova Scotia.
Very nice, thanks for the info!
North Ms, this is the first winter burning only wood in this house. So I’m hoping it’s same as Last house was around 2 cords for whole year.. but it’s seasoned oak. Or some form of hard wood!
sounds good!
from South Central Nebraska we have a 24 hundred square foot home ...upstairs and the basement.... we have a fire place and an outside wood burner for really cold periods. Normally the the fire place with over head fans going heats very well. We burn a lot of ash now but have used elm, mulberry, etc...our home is very well insulated. My wife likes it a bit cooler then I do...LOL so she gets her way. we go through about a face cord in the outside wood burner when needed and abut cord of split dry wood in the fire place.
That sounds great, just keep the boss, I mean your wife, happy!
Here in NE Kansas we heat the house with a wood burning furnace (Fire Chief) and go through about 2 full cords for the winter. Mostly hedge.
Nice! That hedge is awesome firewood! Some day I want to bow deer hunt in Kansas!
@@InTheWoodyard We certainly have enough deer for you. I’ve been hit twice. 2 different cars about 200 yards difference.
Single wide trailer house in South East Montana 5 to 6 normal year bad year maybe 10. We're limited in trees maple, cottonwood, and pine.
All wood burns, keep cuttin'!
West michigan, 3 miles from the big lake. I use about 9-10 cords of oak/hard maple/beech a year in an inefficient woodstove insert to heat 4200 sq foot house
Big house = big wood pile!!! You need to get cuttin' and keep cuttin'!
Great discussion, Chris!
I go through 2-3 cords of oak a year heating our house 24/7 with a Blaze King Princess fireplace insert in western NC.
We load it up in the evening and don't touch it till the next evening unless it gets down in the teens. If it's in the teens or lower we'll add a couple of splits in the afternoon. Love the efficiency of our Blaze King insert!
That sounds great, keep cuttin'!
Northeast Kansas. Wood stove. We start burning in October and usually have a few fires in April. We go through 5-6 cords a year.
That sounds great, keep cuttin'!
@@InTheWoodyard got a pickup load of hedge and honey locust today.
Mid state NC, 1700 sq ft, use freestanding wood stove in basement to supplement heat pump, oak most desired, cooler days use the lighter wood. Average winter 2.5 ish cords
Nice to have a couple heat sources.
Central Canada, use wood to supplement the heat, burn in a wood stove and fireplace insert, house about 2000sq ft, burn hard wood, maple cherry ash. Use about 4 full cord, or 12 face cords. Some years a little less. Love the channel, watch daily!
Thanks so much CHIPPY!