When do you usually order your firewood, do you get it in the spring, so you can have it dry and ready for the winter? Or do you order your firewood in fall, or winter so you can burn it ?
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If you are ordering wood now it most likely won't be ready to burn in the fall unless it's soft wood or you find the extremely rare guy who actually sells seasoned wood. You should be buying a minimum of a year ahead of time usually 2 years.
Before I became educated in this, I would order late fall and burn whatever I got in the fireplace. Wife would wonder why large splits of oak were just sizzling and not producing flames well.
JRHAWK9
Minister of Fire
I beg to differ. I sell properly dried "seasoned" wood. The stuff I sold this winter was c/s/s in 2016.
I order wood every spring to replace the wood I burned over the winter, but I don't burn it until 2-3 years later.
if you have the space order twice what u burn in a season stack it and let it dry not for next winter but the one after order some compressed logs to cover next winter then you'll be ahead, kind of expensive first year but you will have your dry wood rotation set
JRHAWK9
Minister of Fire
For the record, I don't really consider myself a seller of firewood.....just a user that sometimes needs to sell off excess in order to be able to make room for the results of my winter exercise program.
You are an exception and a credit to the trade. Most sellers start counting the "seasoning time" from when the tree was felled. It doesn't really start to season until split and stacked.I beg to differ. I sell properly dried "seasoned" wood. The stuff I sold this winter was c/s/s in 2016.
Woodsplitter67
Minister of Fire
Probably the smart thing to do is purchase the wood and split open a piece and check the moisture content on the freshly split face with the pins going with the grain.. This will give you an idea of when it will be ready.. If your looking to burn this wood starting this fall Id check the MC and if its high kiln dry it so its ready.. you can purchase the wood now, stack it, then wrap it the first week in July and it will be fully seasoned by September..
For me the past few yrs been ordering usually from june to aug/sept then i just split it and toss it into a big pile and start to stack it when i have a place to stack it im usually a yr and a half ahead
This is what I just did. Have 4 cords now. Will get another by the summer. The wood I’m getting now is for 3 years out. Like 3 year rotation.
You are exceptional. This is not the case in my area at all. Your customers are very fortunate. You provide a rare commodity. 👍I beg to differ. I sell properly dried "seasoned" wood. The stuff I sold this winter was c/s/s in 2016.
My experience is freshly split hardwood does best after at least two summers split and stacked. That’s not always possible, but it’s the ideal drying times for me.
So keep that in mind when ordering firewood. Most likely the wood your having delivered was cut and split a few weeks or at best months before it arrives in your driveway.
So keep that in mind when ordering firewood. Most likely the wood your having delivered was cut and split a few weeks or at best months before it arrives in your driveway.
