Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Sawyer Rob]

Mine does a good job of heating this house too,

I have it completely separate from my propane furnace so I can run either one, how ever I want.

It's not in the pict., but I hooked it to separate ductwork after the pict. was taken...

SR

 

[Oldpath05]

So it looks like you have a forced hot air furnace in the basement looking at the stairs etc. Growing up in the Lakes Region of NH my dad had obtained an old Sam Daniels wood forced hot air wood furnace and we burned about 12 cord of wood a winter. He had piped in a oil burner forced hot air furnace as well so that in the middle of the night it could take over if necessary. The house was over 200 years old at the time and it was an 11 room house and in the oldest parts it was a little breezy to say the least.

I just forgot to add one thing so I am doing an edit on this. The benefit of the hooking up the oil burner was that it was connected to the same central chimney. At one time we also had an additional wood stove hooked in to the same chimney as well upstairs. But the benefit of running the oil burner through the same chimney was that we never had any creosote so we never had to clean the chimney. At times we would burn some pretty wet wood as well.

I'd look inside that 200 year old house, probably still held together with square nails and wooden pegs, you have any pictures of it, is the old look ruin by vinyl?

No I dont have force air, I'm not sure what it's called, gravity air system I guess, the heat flows up through two 9"ish duct works, the register can get so hot wife has to keep the grand kids off. I keep getting mixed ideas on running a oil furnace through same chimney, it is what I'd like to do someday but I better ask the insurance company again before I do and get the OK in writhing.

 

[Molalla1]

Not everywhere in the West is it bone dry and on fire. Saw a small frog hopping through my garage the other night.

First rains came (over 1/2" two days ago; a couple more over the course of the next week). That put us over 61" of rain for this year. No chance of a dry well here!

Got all my wood crates stacked up in my woodshed. Stove was cleaned toward the end of the last heating season and will be good to get through half this upcoming year's season. Just replaced the gasket in the stove's door. Might be a record in being early: also includes two additional years' worth of wood cut, split and racked. Helped that this year I had two functional shoulders to work with (last year was slowed with my rotator cuff surgery).

I still would like to get my trailer with a couple of firewood crates out to the site of a tree downed last winter: get it sawed up before the blackberries overrun it.

Wood, but no tractor shown (how else did that wood get there?):
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Metal roof :thumbsup:

 

[Oldpath05]

Mine does a good job of heating this house too,

I have it completely separate from my propane furnace so I can run either one, how ever I want.

It's not in the pict., but I hooked it to separate ductwork after the pict. was taken...

SR

Nice I wouldn't have to bend over putting wood in that stove, just one duct straight up? The name on that stove rings a bell, my youngest daughter name, she gets married in a few weeks, if this video link still works, she did a news story last year for a VA news station on a aircraft carrier. Serving at Sea: Suiting up as a Sailor

 

[Gordon Gould]

gg must of run over his chainsaw or jumped ahead to snowplow season.

You jinxed me by saying that. I didn't run it over but...... - today I set the saw down and then winched in a hitch of firewood I cut from the edges of a brushy area. They were dropped in the opening and I had a grand time bunching the tops together and winching them in backwards thru the brush. Finally went to get the saw. No clue where it was. Looked all around the edge and near the tractor - no saw. Finally found it rolled up in the brush right where the hitch went thru. Chain Brake handle broke clean off - your fault, but it could have been worse.

gg

 

[Oldpath05]

You jinxed me by saying that. I didn't run it over but...... - today I set the saw down and then winched in a hitch of firewood I cut from the edges of a brushy area. They were dropped in the opening and I had a grand time bunching the tops together and winching them in backwards thru the brush. Finally went to get the saw. No clue where it was. Looked all around the edge and near the tractor - no saw. Finally found it rolled up in the brush right where the hitch went thru. Chain Brake handle broke clean off - your fault, but it could have been worse.

gg

Oh no gg thats sounds like something that could happen to me, it's to bad but gee thats a funny story, least its only the chain brake handle but might be a few $$ more then the saw handle, yup it could be worse could be a brand new saw!!! You going online to fine replacement or nearest saw shop or Gorilla Glue, thanks for posting and post some pictures when you replace or fix the handle, good luck....

 

[Oldpath05]

Son wants to start a roof on lumber deck but deck was never lined up with sawmill building, a slight engineering error from years ago. So we had to first clear off the lumber and restack it so's to move the deck in alignment, this is going to be another 4 week project. I know shooting forts are more important then a sawmill buildings but we cant stand sawing lumber on bare ground and like keeping it under cover...

Lumber deck adjustment - YouTube

 

[Gordon Gould]

Oh no gg thats sounds like something that could happen to me, it's to bad but gee thats a funny story, least its only the chain brake handle but might be a few $$ more then the saw handle, yup it could be worse could be a brand new saw!!! You going online to fine replacement or nearest saw shop or Gorilla Glue, thanks for posting and post some pictures when you replace or fix the handle, good luck....

Should be an easy fix. I like PartsTree.com - good diagrams, good stocking level, price as good or better than most, easy and quick. New handle in stock $32.



I see from your video you are good with precision work. That slid over nicely for you. Should have left the lumber on it so it would have been more of a challenge.

gg

 

[John_Mc]

Not just how dry it is but how hot you burn it . Dry wood that is damped down to a smolder will be building up creosote as well. Kind of like the new diesels, run em hot !

Exactly right. What causes creosote formation is burning a cold smoldery fire. That can be cause by burning wood that is too green (vaporizing that moisture sucks a LOT of heat out of the combustion chamber). It can also be caused by starving the fire for oxygen - choking off the air supply or closing a damper to restrict the air feed. As wood burns, it releases gasses. The gasses will not ignite below a certain temperature. They go up your chimney unburnt, wasting a significant about of BTUs. Some of it just exits the top of your chimney, some of it condenses on the sides of your flue, forming creosote. That cold, smoldery fire (whether from wet wood or from choking off the air supply) wastes BTUs, causes more pollution, and is the cause of creosote formation.

Modern wood stoves generally limit the ability to choke off the air, so there is less chance of causing this by simply choking things down (though it is still possible).

 

[John_Mc]

You jinxed me by saying that. I didn't run it over but...... - today I set the saw down and then winched in a hitch of firewood I cut from the edges of a brushy area. They were dropped in the opening and I had a grand time bunching the tops together and winching them in backwards thru the brush. Finally went to get the saw. No clue where it was. Looked all around the edge and near the tractor - no saw. Finally found it rolled up in the brush right where the hitch went thru. Chain Brake handle broke clean off - your fault, but it could have been worse.

gg

Good source for inexpensive parts: Chainsawr.com They have a huge supply of used but serviceable parts for a wide variety of saws. If I recall, they are up in your neck of the woods as well.