{"id":401,"date":"2018-12-07T21:34:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T02:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2019-01-14T13:32:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:32:31","slug":"wood-for-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Wood for the winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is our wood for the winter.\u00a0 The stack is 2 logs wide, 64 feet long and over 4 feet tall.\u00a0 I figure 8+ cords.\u00a0 That will give us heat and hot water all winter, get me started at maple syruping and have just a bit left over.\u00a0 We do have a propane backup furnace but we only used 25 gallons of propane last year, so we heat almost entirely with wood.\u00a0 How do you cut that much wood? – one load at a time.\u00a0 We switched homeowners insurance a couple of years ago and when I told them we heated with wood they sent a guy out for an inspection.\u00a0 I told him to let me show him the system and give him an explanation of the theory and application behind our system.\u00a0 When we were done he told me he was the expert on heating systems at his firm.\u00a0 He said he had learned more in the last 15 minutes than he ever knew, he had never seen anything like our system and I should teach a class.\u00a0 As an example last night the temperature got down to 23 degrees.\u00a0 When I added wood at 9:30 PM the thermostat is the dining room said it was 73 degrees in the house.\u00a0 When I added wood at 7:30 AM the thermostat in the dining room still said it was 73 degrees in the house and our showers with water heated by the furnace were scorching hot.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0An update – 1-14-2019\u00a0 When I added wood last night at 9:30 the house was 73 degrees.\u00a0 It was 9 degrees outside this morning at 7:30 when I added wood again.\u00a0 The house was 73 degrees.\u00a0 That is 10 hours and an 64 degree differential.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is our wood for the winter.\u00a0 The stack is 2 logs wide, 64 feet long and over 4 feet tall.\u00a0 I figure 8+ cords.\u00a0 That will give us heat and hot water all winter, get me started at maple syruping and have just a bit left over.\u00a0 We do have a propane backup furnace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t