Plan the work, Work the plan - 3 Year Wood Schedule

Sounds like their plan is you

I agree with Midway, stop it now or it will never end. I will help people cut but they can do as I do, get ahead. I am out to 2018+ so can they if they want to.

Very true I've helped a friend css 2 cords each year for the past 2 years which he's run out both years and comes to me wanting me to let him have some of mine.... I would help anyone that needs help but there comes a point you start to think you're being taken advantage of

Does it help or hurt that many of y'all in the north east and upper midwest have had two relatively severe winters back to back?

I am on my second more mild than average winter in a row, trying to season every stick I can so I have the deepest reserve possible when I have a severe winter next.

What I don't get is by the time summer is rolling around and you still don't have more than enough for next year, THAT'S the time you need to be buying "seasoned" wood from dealers so it actually will be ready to burn in the coming winter. That's what I'd be telling my friend.

You're 100% right I'm 4-5 years ahead myself... It surprises me how many people don't actually think that way though.... I may run out once be if I can help it ( injury/sickness) I won't run again

I had five cords ready to go for this winter. Because the construction of my new house got so far behind schedule, I will not be burning any of it this year. After learning what I have from this forum, I realize that I am actually in a very good position for next winter. I plan to get at least another five cords this year, so I am already one year ahead. Thanks to my education here.

Poindexter said:

Does it help or hurt that many of y'all in the north east and upper midwest have had two relatively severe winters back to back?

I am on my second more mild than average winter in a row, trying to season every stick I can so I have the deepest reserve possible when I have a severe winter next.

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I don't know if I buy that excuse. If there were two bad winters then you would think that after the first one they would have learned their lesson and would have been ready the second year.
It sounds more like a pattern of behavior to me with some good friends.

You've become a firewood enabler. Word gets around, and you are scrounging yourself. Its nice to be able to give some wood to someone in need, but if they're heating with wood they have to step up and work on it in the summer. Grasshopper and the ant fable.

Had to look that up. Grass hopper and the ant short story.

I agree, last February I made a trip to help my BIL scrounge for wood to make it through spring. Then I decided to get a wood furnace, but determined I wasn't going to get myself in that situation. In the last 12 months I've css 3+ years supply of wood. BIL, however, is burning lots of propane again this year. No trip to help him scrounge this year.