How many cords per season?

I use 3 full cords. No fake cords. SE Wyoming.

3-4 full cords 2000 sq ft colonial outside of Rochester NY. Burn full time with a quad IR. Burn mostly soft maple, Ash, black cherry apple and whatever else I can scrounge. Usually gone three weeks out of the burning season.

2-4 full cords. 128 cubic feet of reasonably split and stacked wood per cord. This heats our high ceiling, 2200 sq foot, partially subterranean ranch house. I have insulated it very well.

First year with our stove and it was mild. We are heating solely with a non-cat stove and also used a kerosene heater for the really cold nights (teens and below).
NC mountains and have burned about 2 full cord... Mixed hardwoods & house temps varied from the 60's to the 70's, depending on the rooms.

4 cords, not banana cords, but cords. The 128 cubic feet kind. Every year for 100% of our heat in my 1700 SF 1963 built house with no central heat.

Our burning season is 9 months long. I am burning now and will be burning through may.

4 cords avg Long Island 5 last year it was very cold.

LowbanksArcher said:

Wood stove owners,on average, how much wood do you burn per season(face cords)? And in what State/Province?

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Rideau Lakes Ontario ...Burned 12 face cords 4 real cords in an old BIS 1986 vintage fireplace, Upgrading to a BIS Panorama next week so hoping for more effiency next year.

LowbanksArcher said:

Wood stove owners,on average, how much wood do you burn per season(face cords)? And in what State/Province?

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What's a face cord?

Wait, are you a wood dealer trying to get new customers or something????

The thread title asks for cords
the poll title asks for face cords
the choices were back to cords

I use 4 - 8 real bonafide cords so that's what I voted: 4-8 cords.

Just burning nights and all day and night on the weekends, central furnace set between 65 and 68 but when inserts going house in low to mid 70s, I went through 2 regular cords of oak. All oak. Couple pieces of poplar to get stove going from cold then red and white oak.

2 tons of coal and wood from a couple of pallets. This would have been a good year to have a cord on hand as a very mild winter and coal is a bit tough for me if the weather keeps changing every day. 60 during the day and 35 at night is a bit tough. Next year will see how good I can get playing the coal limbo with how low can you go and not go out. Draft can get pretty iffy with 90F 1 foot from stove on stack pipe and 60F outside. Maybe the smart move is to buy a dozen or two packs of bio bricks for the 35 degree nights. If wood coal or oil I have to buy it and coal is up to 335 a ton wood 200 a cord and fuel oil 1.60 a gallon. Right now they all come out about the same as far as cost. Burned wood only from 2011 to 2014 and 3 real cords and felt like I had a wood fired locomotive to feed.

The problem with most on a wood heating site is that a face cord is not a "proper" measurement and they demand cord measurement to mean 128 cubic feet. However, if you buy your wood c/s/d in Eastern Ontario (and I suspect in most areas in Canada) , you can only buy in face cords not 128 cubic feet. Wood sellers ONLY sell in face cords, whether you agree on it or not. You just have to make the quick conversion (example 3X16"X4'X8') to get to an actual cord. However, don't worry about it as we all really know what you're talking about.

Now as for me, I bought 15 face cords (5 cords) and still have roughly a row of 8'X4' left (or 1 face cord), so I will probably use the full 15 face cords, or 5 cords. Confusing ain't it.

What a chord I burn a shed full plus some more

LowbanksArcher said:

Thanks for clearing that up. Everyone around my area talks in 'face' cords when speaking of cords. I mention it on here and it's like i've broken some sort of wood burning commandment or something. Oops

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Face cord has no value as a metric. Your face could be 12" splits, my face cord could be 24" splits. Hardly equivalent for comparison sake . Except for nit-picking 'stacked tight' and 'stacked loose' 128 cubic feet is 128 cubic feet. Keeps everyone on the same page.

LowbanksArcher said:

i've broken some sort of wood burning commandment

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Your penance is to split ten rounds of hedge by hand with a steel wedge and 3 pound hammer.

In N. GA. with wood as my only heat source I typically use 2.5 cords. This season, I burned in shoulder mode all season leaving a very deep ash in the bottom of the stove (4"+), put my splits in the standup position once the coal bed was established, and used less than a cord. In the past I kept the house (2,800 sqft Strawbale Cape Cod) at 76-80F - this season we would let the house drop down to 68F during the day since no one is home, then around 6pm would load the stove getting us up to 75F, then would crank down the air when we head to bed. The next morning I would throw a few "coal keeper" fresh splits in before leaving for work. The house was actually more comfortable and we used much less wood. When restarting, I will dump a tote full of dry twigs from the woods onto the coaIs with a couple small dry spits to top it off. After a couple hours I would stand up the 30" splits/cuts in the fire box and let it roll. Worked like a charm. I never lost my coals even with 36 hours between some of my reloads.

LowbanksArcher said:

Thanks for clearing that up. Everyone around my area talks in 'face' cords when speaking of cords. I mention it on here and it's like i've broken some sort of wood burning commandment or something. Oops

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Ya it took me a little adjustment too lol. It is funny like that around here. Like how my neighbours trailer loads he sells me are 5 cord.