Yes,when mixing green wood,
I build a hot fire at the camp and burn out the creosote once in the fall.

I have burned wood my entire life. Western larch,douglas (red) fir and paper birch are considered the best firewood around here but I burn it all. I have a lot of cottonwood and ponderosa (bull) pine on my property so they are burnt a lot. We don't have any hardwoods. I have fairly hot fires so don't worry about creosote. Creosote is made worse by burning green wood or restricting the air by shutting down your stove so the fire just smolders. I clean my chimney once a year. If the house gets too hot we let the fire go out or open a window. The house got too hot on Thursday so didn't even start a fire yesterday. Why criticize how a man conducts his affairs? If you don't agree don't associate with him, if you don't like the house rules don't go to that house. JMO.

Yeah I only burn dry birch. Spruce and cottonwood burn too quickly, leave too much ash, and don't have the BTU's per cord that birch does. I would love to have access to some real hardwood

I keep 2-3 years ahead on my wood supply. I have three woodsheds and rotate from year to year. I keep about two weeks worth of wood on my deck so I don't have to trek to the woodshed at all hours.
When I open my door at today's temperature, a white cloud billows in. Lets say it takes me 5 seconds to go through the door and another 7 seconds to come back inside with an arm load of wood. In that time the temperature in my house will drop 2 degrees and take another 15-30 minutes to recover.

Firewood has a cost of $350 per cord and up......depending on the species. You don't leave any door open very long here. That's the reason most houses have an arctic entry....so there is no door open directly to the outside.

In the north here,there are usually stands of fire killed spruce on or near the trapline.This is the best firewood,as far as collecting.It has no bark is dry and sound(not rotten)and light to transport with the skidoo.And unlimited supply,there for the taking whenever needed,and splits beautifully.
I like to burn fire killed black spruce.
Fire killed pine is OK but has a lot of tar in it.It is good if you want to make some pine tar.

Artic room = mud room = "work man's entry" in the old farm houses. Interesting name to geography of households entry.

You live in weather conditions that would be considered extreme by most of us White. Here in southeast Pennsylvania I consider single digits pretty cold and we only see below zero a few times each winter if that. Maybe if we got as cold as you I'd start yelling at people to "CLOSE THE DOOR!"

Yep!

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I'm sure that's true Lug. Right now there is 111 degree difference between inside & outside.

You can always tel the putz that never cut, split,. hauled, and stacked a cord of firewood in his life by the way he loves to pile the wood on and just has to keep poking at it to make it burn faster. GRRRRRR!!

Sorry for not getting back sooner but I was busy playing in the outdoors. BIG THANKS to all those that stuck up fore me!

The point was that most people that burn wood for heat are a bit more easy going. A bit more self sufficient if you will.

I am sure it is a bit different in a place with no trees and the temps dip into the negatives. Like - whatever during the day.

Funny thing is, if I figured in what my employer pays me for the time that I spend getting firewood I would be better off heating with other sources. The fact is I like going out in the woods and getting firewood. I like going out and getting firewood. I enjoy the time.

But then again I am young and dumb.

I run two small businesses and don't always have time to process enough wood to heat at home all season. I'm also a miser and like to know how I can get the best bang for my buck.

My two heating options are fuel oil and wood, I have fuel-oil fired, forced air systems here at home and at camp as well as woodstoves at both places.

A cord of hardwood (mostly oak is what I buy) cost $200.00 delivered and gives me about 25,000,000 (twenty-five million) BTU's

A gallon of fuel oil gives about 139,000 BTU's so it would take about 180 gallons to equal a cord of wood. I just paid $2.70 per gallon for fuel oil at an apartment building I manage. That comes to $486.00, more than twice the amount of money for the same BTU's.

There is a bit of time and labor involved in moving the wood from where it is dumped in the driveway to where it is stacked on the porch. And there is extra work loading the fire three or four times a day and cleaning out the ashes once and a while. But, as I said above, I'm a miser, I'll do that relatively small amount of extra work to gain those savings.

I takes about five cords to heat my home during a normal heating season, that's $1,000.00 if I buy all my wood or $2,430.00 if I burn fuel oil for the heating season.

I burn wood in an outdoor burner.
This year i turned my water temp down some to see the result.
My blower on my furnace runs longer but the house stays at 70 easy enough.
I have been getting up to 24 hours on a full load.
My kids and i get wood in a loader. We go and cut one bucket or more at a time. Takes a little over an hour to fill the bucket.
One bucket lasts about a week. We don't split anything. Cut it and dump next to the burner. I'm not one of those guys that has to have a pretty wood pile.
We try and cut at least one load a week in the winter so our pile never gets to small. Better than cutting wood when it is 75 outside.
I still chew my kids out when they leave the door open. We prefer getting some exercise rather than paying the gas man.

Inspired by Lug, I just ran those same calculations.

I use about 5 cords of birch during a heating season.

If I bought my wood at $350/cord that equals $1750 per season

The equivalent BTU values of oil would cost me $4105 per season

Golly I love these kind of posts, it shows the difference in folks across the country.
I see that some wood is junk and oak is better. I give away the junk oak and locust that gets cut here to an elderly neighbor. Yall should burn a few cord of seasoned hedge (osage orange) and see how often the door or window get left open. All kidding aside, it would be nice if you norther folks had hedge to burn. It is hot and burns a long time, two good size sticks will keep my house warm all day. When Dad was still alive he would keep the stove filled. I remember coming in to check on him and it would be well over 100 degrees in the house. I never understood it cause he didn't handle heat well, but as long as he could see snow out the window it was cold in the house (in his mind). I even put a thermometer by his chair so he could see how hot it was, but he would still keep shoving hedge in the stove.

A logger friend of mine told me tamarack was his favorite as far as firewood goes. Said the same thing, it burns hot.

The trouble is tamarack doesn't get bigger than 3-4 inches diameter

Similar to that spindly black spruce? With the snow you guys have been getting, I wouldn't want to be trudging to a wood pile.

Between 5 feet of snow and 50 below it isn't something I look forward to!

So we would both pay about 140% more for fuel oil, interesting.

And my I note; Is a hundred years old in your region.

Note that the northern wood grows slower and the dark winter ring is much denser, there is a lot ore BTU's in it than southern wood.
Black Spruce from 60 *N vs 50*n has a differences of 10% more Btu's most numbers quoted are from southern equations.

Another equation that has not been made is the Membership in the Health Club, so take that off the wood guys and put it on the fuel tab guys. But add to the wood guys bill a tub of Absorbine Jr