Winter Sunrise
 

Since this is the first day of winter, and it has been snowing a bit, also the world has not come to an end yet, I took this photo this morning it ain't real good but every day I can see a sunrise I feel blessed! gary

Gary, you are truly blessed and may those blessings continue for a hundred years.

Looks real good to me! Happy Holidays!!

Looks great to me, looks alot like the sunrise I saw this morning. But mine didn't have any trees infront of it.:whistle:

Gary, Thanks for a great photo. For me a sunrise or sunset through the starkness of barren tree's is one of the most beautiful views mother nature offers.

Similar to here today. This is as much sun as I get this time of year, and for less than 30 minutes. Sure is nice and wintry though. Perfect for Christmas. And warm too at +1deg. It's been -40 for some time so this feels like a heat wave. This is one of the flying squirrels that come to my feeder nightly to sup on peanut butter. They are soo cool!

boy what a sunrise...looks like you gota lotta snow there..i see you still burning that wood you split a while back...nice little squirl i figured they would hibernate in that cold climite..bout every thing likes peanut butter including me.... charlie

Rich, I see two buildings one is the main house is the other a work shop, No wonder you get so much wood in! I only burn 5-6 cords, but that is in a fireplace which sucks the heat out of the rest of the house, Do you have a pot belly stove, and do you burn more than a tractor trailer load each year? I see you get your wood in early up there! Merry Xmas Gary

The small log bldg is just a storage shed we built with the left over tips from the house logs. Big mistake because it's in the spot where I'd like to build a garage so I may have to move it. I only burn about 3 cords of wood per year; that pile on the pad will last me at least 2 yrs. I have a Riteway 2000 stove in the house, and a spare in the shed. Good old large box woodstove made in Minnesota many years ago. They were too efficient so were of course regulated out of existence.

Those are full cords, not face cords, I assume

Full; face cords is a pretty useless term really....

please explain phrase face cord...charlie

Charlie - Perhaps it's a Michigan thing. It's a stack of 16" or 18" firewood that is 4' high by 8' long

a face cord is just that - the face of a cord of wood


4' tall 8' long and as deep as the guy selling to you wants to cut it - altough around 16 to 18 is about normal

same height and length - a lot less depth than a full cord

i guess in mississippi that a face cord wood be 2 foot by 16 foot.thats what i had to do when i was a boy cutting wood for people...you boys getting gipped or getting a good deal when selling....i like the idea of face cord if i ever go to selling wood again... charlie

shoulda said it was 2 wide by 4 foot high and 16 foot long...yep i like that term face cord.... charlie

Your measure makes up a 'full cord' of wood Charlie. 128 cubic feet of wood is a full cord no matter how the pile measures.

A "face cord" here in New England is 1/3 of a cord and as Rich said, it is a pretty useless term when it comes to buying or selling firewood. I've never heard of anyone selling firewood by the face cord.

"Face cord" is the only way residential firewood is sold in Mich. Commercial amounts (a true cord) is referred to as a "Logger's cord"

Wow... so if I burn 3 1/2 cords per heating season I would need to order 11 face cords if I lived in your neck of the woods.

Around here I simply order a "grapple load" which amounts to about 7 - 8 cords but they guarantee 7. That would last me two seasons.

im learning a lot of new terms here a grapple load and a face cord... charlie

I paid $60/face cord, delivered, for really good maple. What are prices in your area?

$600 for a grapple load (tree lengths) or $240 for a cord cut to stove length and split.

Sounds like that works out to about $80/face cord. The cedar ticks here work cheaper than your supplier

If I actually got the 14cords that the logger said he had on the truck, I paid $125/cord for my load last spring.

Yeah, but isn't that Alaskan wood what we call "gofur wood"? (Put a piece on the fire and go for more) because it's poor firewood - low BTU content, high ash?

its about a 125 for a full cord of oak or hickory in my neck of the woods... charlie

Hope those squirles are not alergic to peanut butter!! So many of our younger generation are paralized by these controled substances. David