Interesting read on a Farmers Almanac Calendar.....

I'm bucking up about 2 cords of wood today and Sat. Plan to split Sun. May not finish it all but heck, there's no snow or cold in site until the 15th according to our local weather man. I may even mow the lawn to pick up the last few leaves on it.

December is a LOUSY time to cut wood; Bambi is still in season.

Any day it's not raining or snowing . . . and I can get to the woodlot without trudging through a lot of snow or mud is a good day for me to cut firewood.

Just had a look at the Genesee Farmer magazine from 1832.........

Firewood was selling for $1-50 a cord, with an extra 50 cents to cut it.

If prices were that today, I wouldn't even cut on good days......... ;-)

woodchip said:

Just had a look at the Genesee Farmer magazine from 1832.........

Firewood was selling for $1-50 a cord, with an extra 50 cents to cut it.

If prices were that today, I wouldn't even cut on good days......... ;-)

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Id even through in a nickel to have it stacked ;-)

Almanacs just tend to reprint the same BS over and over and over.

As for the best days to cut in December, that is any day that is dry. I don't like cutting following a fresh snow because it can be a trial keeping that white stuff from falling down the back of your neck. It is also very difficult to keep gloves dry. But on dry days, December is hard to beat for cutting wood.

ISeeDeadBTUs said:

How many BTU's in a calandar?

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snicker, snicker +1

I don't know, maybe there's something to that almanac. Today was Dec 2 and my wife and son went out and cut a load of wood today and it went really well. Between work and a bad back and having to replace the engine in my truck, which I just got back from the mechanic, I didn't think I was gona be able to get any more wood before it snowed to much, but everything came together today...... "Dec 2"

Those are waxing moon days, check a lunar calendar.
How much sense that makes, I don't know.

Maybe the axe drops harder on a waxing moon.

Or maybe people just have to say something in almanacs, so they made it up to look impressive, nobody would do that today, would they..... ;-)

They'd definitely do. On the other hand, around my neck of the woods it is advised to plant garlic only under a waning moon, lest the cloves jump out of the ground.

The Almanac wasn't taking Alaska in to account.
Here we cut in Sept to burn in October,
If we waited until Dec. - January, we'd be froze.