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Trying burning hedge (Osage Orange) and you'll quickly see why! It burns so hot it can damage light duty fireplaces. Osage Orange thrives on abuse and grows whe
by exabrial 4y ago
Trying burning hedge (Osage Orange) and you'll quickly see why! It burns so hot it can damage light duty fireplaces. Osage Orange thrives on abuse and grows wherever it can in the midwest.
There are extremely efficient wood systems available that automatically throttle up/down, you set with a thermostat, and only need to be fed another bundle [edit] of wood once every few days. The ashes are automatically kicked to a can that you empty once a month. It's quite extraordinary how far these systems have come.
- dwater 4y agoI am guess that’s a typo because a cord of wood is 128 cubic feet, which would be a real big furnace.
- exabrial 4y agoYou’re correct, I meant a bundle every few days. A cord lasts some people an entire season.
- lostlogin 4y agoI had never heard of a cord as being a unit of measure. It’s 3.6 cubic metres in my units, which is easily a season for me (in a much more mild climate). A cord is apparently the length of a piece of string. That’s the second ridiculous unit of measure I’ve encountered today - shoe sizes are incremented by in barleycorns.
- exabrial 4y agoCord is used all over the us/Canada, not sure if it’s European