planner steve
Burning Hunk
Plenty of good info on storage already. Your yard sounds big enough that you could let some wood season for two years.Complete noob here. Our new 1400 sq ft. house has oil heat so we got an enviro Venice 1200 insert. We were having fires every night anyway so we thought we might put that heat to good use.
How do you season wood here? I've been reading the forums and I've heard you need a year.
1. Should I stack the split wood outside even though it's permarain from Oct-May? Won't it just get soaked? Or is May-Sept good enough to season it?
2. Where should I get the wood? Lots of people on Craigslist selling seasoned wood. Is it really seasoned? (I live in a city on about 1/3 acre). Should I plan on seasoning it myself? (I don't have a chainsaw or a big enough truck to haul a log)
3. Will a tarp suffice? Woodshed goes up in the spring or early summer.
4. Is there any way to tell how much wood you might use before you actually burn it a while? I'm guessing not.
Thanks.
For obtaining wood, watch Craigslist frequently. In the Portland, OR area, free wood is often available, already cut to length. I took a quick look at Tacoma Craigslist and all there was today was some cottonwood. But it was cut to length and free. I noticed there is seasoned cedar for $250/cord. Unless you have real inefficient oil heat, you'd spend less heating with oil than paying that much for cedar.