1st Kansas City CL Scrounge

[Missouri Frontier]

Had a nice fire going this am at the farm…630am was 18 outside and had cooled off to 54 inside…a few logs and a pot of coffee later was toasty 72. Now home and a roaring fire in fireplace. Something about burn in wood!

You got that right wooddust. I'm running 12 hr loading schedule on silver maple. Yes silver maple! Tropical 76 degrees in the house. Wood heat beats forced air hands down. Props to my Blaze King too. Still too warm outside (13)to run hedge in the BK.

 

[ChrisRphotography]

Such a small world I'm in Mission and this is my first year burning wood I'm sold

 

[Wooddust]

Mizzou fans will be especially cold tonight…..fire up. Weagle weagle War Damn Eagle. Sorry y'all but glad to see Auburn pull it off….

 

[Missouri Frontier]

Mizzou fans will be especially cold tonight…..fire up. Weagle weagle War Damn Eagle. Sorry y'all but glad to see Auburn pull it off….

Dang wooddust and I thought I liked you too.

 

[Redlegs]

I was surprised to see this thread and all the KC wood burners. I know a lot of guys just west of you that burn, but few take it seriously like the folks on here. Way to represent the Midwest!

 

[chvymn99]

You got that right wooddust. I'm running 12 hr loading schedule on silver maple. Yes silver maple! Tropical 76 degrees in the house. Wood heat beats forced air hands down. Props to my Blaze King too. Still too warm outside (13)to run hedge in the BK.

Yea Love Me Some Hedge.... What time do you get from Hedge with the BK?

 

[Missouri Frontier]

Yea Love Me Some Hedge.... What time do you get from Hedge with the BK?

24 hrs on setting 1.5 which is about lower mid range. I'm guessing 30 hrs on low will be possible. During those 24 hrs the house temp didnt go below 74.Those numbers are usable heat numbers. My house is 1200sf and newly built from the ground up with sole source wood heat in mind. Very insulated. Not sure how it might perform for someone else

 

[Wooddust]

Dang wooddust and I thought I liked you too.

Hehheeehheeee….

 

[Wooddust]

Homemade bread and beef stew…wood fire….comfy tonight

 

[Redlegs]

Hedge is just awesome in my Osburn 2400 insert. I don't get the BK times, but I still love some hedge.

 

[Missouri Frontier]

Hedge is just awesome in my Osburn 2400 insert. I don't get the BK times, but I still love some hedge.

Heck yeah. Dense is better. Pretty much doesn't get more dense than hedge(besides my head). Funny too because when I first started burning everyone told me "never put a full load of hedge in a stove". The implication being I'd have some sort of China syndrom on my hands. Well my stove is still standing and I don't speak Chinese. So, I'm guessing the whole hedge melting down the stove thing must have been pre airtight stoves?

 

[Wooddust]

I love burning 2-3 year old hedge, 2-3 year old oak and 1-2 year old hickory. Hickory even with 9 months dry time burs super hot, hotter than oak. Hedge is my nighttime load up.

 

[chvymn99]

Heck yeah. Dense is better. Pretty much doesn't get more dense than hedge(besides my head). Funny too because when I first started burning everyone told me "never put a full load of hedge in a stove". The implication being I'd have some sort of China syndrom on my hands. Well my stove is still standing and I don't speak Chinese. So, I'm guessing the whole hedge melting down the stove thing must have been pre airtight stoves?

I've been told that too, but never had any problems with my NC13. Havent gotten more than a couple of pieces of hedge in the NC30 yet, still learning how to control it before letting her rip.

 

[Missouri Frontier]

I've been told that too, but never had any problems with my NC13. Havent gotten more than a couple of pieces of hedge in the NC30 yet, still learning how to control it before letting her rip.

Sounds like a good plan. I don't know how hedge would run in a secondary burn stove. I figure if you could choke it down enough it would be alright. With my stove I just load it set it and forget it. Lol. It must be a Ronco stove!

 

[Missouri Frontier]

Such a small world I'm in Mission and this is my first year burning wood I'm sold

Welcome Chris. Mission is a nice area. Glad you are here!

 

[Missouri Frontier]

I love burning 2-3 year old hedge, 2-3 year old oak and 1-2 year old hickory. Hickory even with 9 months dry time burs super hot, hotter than oak. Hedge is my nighttime load up.

Sounds like a perfect mix wooddust. There are plenty of fellow wood burners, that don't live around here, that would be dang jealous of that mix of hardwoods.

 

[brian89gp]

Sounds like a good plan. I don't know how hedge would run in a secondary burn stove. I figure if you could choke it down enough it would be alright. With my stove I just load it set it and forget it. Lol. It must be a Ronco stove!

I have a melted/warped liner and a stove with a warped top that says a packed full load of hedge in a stove with excessive draft (eg, normally hard to control) is a bad idea.

 

[Missouri Frontier]

I have a melted/warped liner and a stove with a warped top that says a packed full load of hedge in a stove with excessive draft (eg, normally hard to control) is a bad idea.

Hey Brian. Sorry to hear about your stove. My experience must be do to the air control on my Blaze King. Hedge works fine for me. It doesn't get extra hot. It just burns forever.

 

[brian89gp]

Hey Brian. Sorry to hear about your stove. My experience must be do to the air control on my Blaze King. Hedge works fine for me. It doesn't get extra hot. It just burns forever.

It undoubtedly takes a combo of environmental variables to happen and I just hit the jackpot. I have an internal insulated 40' liner on secondary burn stove that doesn't close all the way down which made it prone to the gates of hell burn if not careful. A dense fuel source just pushed it over the edge.

 

[Brick (ware)House]

Processed the scrounge on Monday and Tuesday. I think the yield may be over 2 cord but don't have it all stacked yet. One of my awesome neighbors borrowed a friend's splitter to use and spent 8 hours running it with me. Another neighbor was taking notes on the splitter so that he can fab one up for me as a winter welding project. They are good friends and great neighbors!

Started moving it inside by hand which is not going to be so fun. I think we need to take out some bricks in one of the window wells so we can just chuck it directly into the basement.

Being in the city, we had a lot of guys stop to see what we were working on. More than one commented that we were wasting our time with Elm and proceeded to explain how they ONLY burn hedge - didn't know there were so many wood snobs around!

 

[chvymn99]

Looks good... Now to get'er stacked & dried....

 

[Brick (ware)House]

Yeah, the splitter wedge was squeezing water out of the large rounds like a sponge!

 

[Wooddust]

Cant believe this years weather…..big change from yesterday!! Y'all staying warm?

 

[chvymn99]

Cant believe this years weather…..big change from yesterday!! Y'all staying warm?

Yep quite the change... got the 30 rockin' and rollin'. Hopefully all is good with you too....

 

[Missouri Frontier]

Ok boys, here comes the cold again. I've been making 76 in the house at 0 to 5 outside burning a combo of dry red oak and hedge. You've got to love the volume of dense hardwoods in these parts. We are blessed. Burn that wood, stay warm and stick your thumb in the eye of the energy companies!