My family has been burning for most of my life but only recently have my wife/kids and I moved back to the country (PA) from Chicago. Needless to say, I didn’t burn in the city.
After doing some research, and some great advice from a couple locals from the board, I’ve decided to get a Lopi Reserve for my upstairs (1500sq ft) and just had a tri-axle delivered (for 2009) to my parents house in the country. I would have had it delivered to my house, but access to my backyard is tough, mainly because the telephone cords are too low on the side where the truck would have to come in.
Early this morning my dad and I started on the task of cutting down the logs into manageable sections and towing them back to my house 5 miles away. I specifically asked for stuff under 20 inches and was very happy with the delivery, mostly sugar maple and a mix of other hardwoods. We completed 6 loads today, approximately 6 trips with the back of my truck 5.5x6 and the trailer 8x5x3 (half full, because the gate only went up that high). There is about 1/3 of the load left, and probably a solid 4 cords or so. This wood is pretty dry, seems like it was cut and stacked for a while, but I still am not using it until 09-10 after I split and stack it shortly. Paid $600 for the load which I thought was fair.
Will probably burn what I can find this year, but glad to have next year taken care of.
Pictures:
1) 4 loads, with 5th in the truck at my house
2) Side view of delivery, rain in the morning...
2) Side view 2
After doing some research, and some great advice from a couple locals from the board, I’ve decided to get a Lopi Reserve for my upstairs (1500sq ft) and just had a tri-axle delivered (for 2009) to my parents house in the country. I would have had it delivered to my house, but access to my backyard is tough, mainly because the telephone cords are too low on the side where the truck would have to come in.
Early this morning my dad and I started on the task of cutting down the logs into manageable sections and towing them back to my house 5 miles away. I specifically asked for stuff under 20 inches and was very happy with the delivery, mostly sugar maple and a mix of other hardwoods. We completed 6 loads today, approximately 6 trips with the back of my truck 5.5x6 and the trailer 8x5x3 (half full, because the gate only went up that high). There is about 1/3 of the load left, and probably a solid 4 cords or so. This wood is pretty dry, seems like it was cut and stacked for a while, but I still am not using it until 09-10 after I split and stack it shortly. Paid $600 for the load which I thought was fair.
Will probably burn what I can find this year, but glad to have next year taken care of.
Pictures:
1) 4 loads, with 5th in the truck at my house
2) Side view of delivery, rain in the morning...
2) Side view 2
You'll definitely get a good work out. I had a tri-axle dump-truck load of seasoned wood delivered by a nearby mill this year. It was mainly 3-5 ft pieces. Cut split and stacked, I had 565 cf. (I'm lucky the mill's prices are very low--$175.) I've been burning 24/7 for most of the month of October and have gone through enough wood that I decided I needed to go to the mill and fill the 8ft bed of my truck--did that yesterday. I probably got another 1/2-3/4 cord; it's gone into my overflow wood shed where I can process at a slower speed. The mill's got mountains of wood at varying states of aging--some of it's been sitting long enough it's silver and cracked throughout. I may get one more load just to feel safe. (This is my first year with an EPA stove so I'm not quit sure how much less wood it will use.)
