Working my ass off, my core is getting sore from swinging the maul. We have about 3 cords, but need about 8. Need 1.5 cords per month to play it safe and not fall short.
This is just one of your stacks, it is over four feet high, and 21 feet long, and almost 3.5 feet wide. One more row would be nice, but would cut down on the winter path.
Here is the other stack the kids and I have been working on. It’s five rows wide and about 20 feet long.
You can see the back side of the other stack
I need to get more tarps for the wood stacks. It would be amazing to have some wood sheds, but that always gets pushed back for one reason or another.
With the help of the kids, we will have plenty of heat for the winter.
I keep telling them the sooner we get this done the sooner we can screw around and go fishing. 🎣
Work hard, play harder!
Life in Alaska
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Woah! And I thought we had big piles of wood. Do you you use it for warmth only? Or some cooking? We had a gorgeous Dover stove but it had an irreparable crack and smoked like the proverbial chimney. I love having the warmth and the cooking facilities. Our current indoor fireplaces can't even boil water
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I wish I could get a cook stove that’s a wood burner. But in Alaska that isn’t feasible with the extreme temperatures we get.
We plan on getting a new stove this summer/fall. The one I want will have a built in ducting system, so I can blow hot air where it needs to go. Maybe I will even be able to move it to the middle of the house, maybe 🤞
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That would be amazing!
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I hope it will be 🤞
The wood stove we have is not efficient in anyway! It produces heat, but it is very old and is getting holes.
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That's a lot of wood! Our woodstove is super efficient, but then we got a cookstove for out in the shop to both keep the dogs warm and to cook on. We ended up going through more wood than we expected last year and that's never a good thing. Buying wood in the season is expensive! Lesson LEARNED!
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We have to be careful up here, there are shady people selling wet/green wood as seasoned wood. Last year we couldn’t cut any wood, it littaraly rained almost all freaking year. So the wood never dried. But someone got ahold of some wood from the fire that burned though Willow the first year we moved out here three years ago. It was some awesome wood too! We could throw in whole rounds, and they would burn a long time. Very nice for trips to town and over night!
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That's quite the pile of wood!
I suppose you don't have access to some of the better hard woods such as oak, it looks like some softwood types and some popple on the pile. Of course, it's a bit hard to tell from the pictures.
When I was still homesteading back in the 1990s, we had an outdoor water boiler wood stove that worked really well for heating the house. The only problem with one of those is that you need electricity to operate the the automatic air damper and the water pump, which runs continuously to circulate the water from the boiler to the house and back. Ours ate about 5 full cords per winter, including spring and fall. I ran the boiler most of the year because we had a heat exchanger to keep the domestic hot water hot. That worked really well, but had a slower recovery time if you used all the hot water. That was never much of a problem for us though.
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We have birch, cotton wood, alder, and spruce trees. They all make heat.
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