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09-08-2019, 07:39 AM #1Registered User
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Firewood length
So the new fireplace is 48" in the front and about 38" in the back. Thinking about getting 30" logs? Any reason not to do that? Should I be using standard 16" or 22"?
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09-08-2019, 07:42 AM #2
Firewood length
Ease of stacking, storing, drying, moving them around all makes me a 16” fan.
Uno mas
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09-08-2019, 07:48 AM #3Funky But Chic
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Well if you're buying wood 18" or 24" makes the math easier on a cord. Carrying a load of of 24" or 30" logs is gonna be heavy
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09-08-2019, 07:52 AM #4
Firewood length
Hand splitting for kindling another factor.
I need to splice for a wood stove and a smaller sauna stove too.
I’d be intimidated by 24”+Uno mas
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09-08-2019, 07:55 AM #5
Propane logs.
or use what ever they use at Burny man.watch out for snakes
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09-08-2019, 08:16 AM #6
Firewood length
Also sometimes it’s getting later in the evening and fire started to die but you want that inevitable one last beer and you want to extend the fire a bit. That 30” going to turn 1 more into 3 more.....
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09-08-2019, 08:30 AM #7
Log is sweet.....
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09-08-2019, 08:34 AM #8
Sounds like you're buying not cutting your own. In which case buy whatever you get the best deal on. I've never used long logs but I wonder if the the longer pieces burn as completely, especially if you don't take pains to kindle the whole length.
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09-08-2019, 09:07 AM #9
It’s really the girth that makes the difference
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09-08-2019, 09:12 AM #10Registered User
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09-08-2019, 09:28 AM #11
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09-08-2019, 10:37 AM #12
I buck at 18"
burns fully, fits in my stack/shed the best, easy to work with. for my application 18 best use of hand-splitting efforts. unbucked math good for for my truck and trailer (though i did once smash a 54" log off the side of my truck. different story).
If buying, +1 for best value.
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09-08-2019, 10:50 AM #13Funky But Chic
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I knew a guy who used to do that but he was stuffing long pieces into a stove made from an oildrum, probably a waste of wood cuz an oil drum stove isnt so efficent
a 30" piece of wood is gona weight almost twice as much as a 16" piece when you try and move it around to put on or deal with in the fire, for a fireplace its gona be a 2 hand job while bending over
you are seeking a solution to a problem that does not existLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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09-08-2019, 12:14 PM #15Registered User
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09-08-2019, 03:37 PM #18Registered User
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So the consensus is to buy standard size and run it double wide?
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09-08-2019, 03:42 PM #19Funky But Chic
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I follow your math....18" log by 21.33' long row at a 4' height equals a cord. OR 3 rows at 4' height but only 7.11' long per row works, too.
Wood buying tip- do the same maths as your wood guy.
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09-08-2019, 04:36 PM #21Funky But Chic
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128 is the only number that really matters
I don't know about decimals beyond .5 in my head though. But say a stacked row of 18" logs is 10 feet long by 5 feet high, that's 10 x 5 x 1.5 (18") = 75 cubic feet. If they were a foot it'd be 50 and if they were 2 feet it would be 100. That's how I've always thought about it at least. I mean the math works.
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09-08-2019, 05:07 PM #22
how many cubits is that?
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09-08-2019, 05:08 PM #23?
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09-08-2019, 05:15 PM #24Funky But Chic
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09-08-2019, 06:38 PM #25
The guys who sell firewood around here don't do math. If they were good at math they would have easier jobs. They throw a bunch of wood in a truck until it looks like a cord. Somehow when I get it all stacked and measure it, it comes out to a cord, or sometimes a little more.
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