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Curing and splitting wood for burning
Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher writes: | | Don't bother with the willow - it's trash. It won't keep going until | completely dry, and then it burns to nothing in next to no time. | | It will if its hot enough and ewortks well enough in a stove. | Its useable. Not brill, but useable. The OP referred to a grate, not a stove. It's ghastly in a grate. | How many tons of wood you you have? You can split wood with a couple | of hand axes, but buying a couple of wedges and a maul or club hammer | will probably cost you less than hiring a functional mechanical device. | Anything that works is likely to be large and heavy. | | Yes. You can split a ton in an afternoon , but thats a lot of work. And how much wood do YOU burn? :-) I would guess that few people would need to spend more than an hour every couple of weeks, even assuming they use wood for all heating. In winter, a couple of hours a week. I fill the back of an old off the road landrover with it. It makes a useful covered motorised wood shed. Probably around 1/2 ton if the wood is dense, less if its not. Except that this winter hasn't really BEEN a winter.. As to what you need for heating a whole house..well as a kid it was coal. A ton of coal did NOT last a winter, although we nearly always made it last a winter, and I still have the memories of near hypothermia and ICE *inside* the bedrooms, and perpetually feeling cold .. I guess it came to around a hundredweight every couple of days with about half the house kept at least above freezing. A ton of coal or wood is probably not far off 1000 liters of heating oil in terms of heat output. I can easily get through that in 6 weeks here if the weather is ultra cold. And its a much better insulated house than that 50's cavity brick one was. |
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