A bit of a back story to shed some information on where I am at.
I moved into the house in March with zero wood.
Previous wood burner experience in a smaller house usually put me at 2-3 cords a year.
So after a bit of scrounging, a bit of tree trimming on the property, and buying some although cheap still bought some and I am trying not to do so.
Came up with about 6 cords. Twice as much wood as I normally used should be good for this winter for sure and a cord or two head start for next winter.
Well Turns out going from 1400 to 2100square feet, wife insisting burning started earlier than I anticipated, some of the wood I scrounged was a bit punky, and having a hotblast wood furnace over a wood burner. You burn A LOT more wood than you anticipated.
Mid-summer guy I know said I hear you have a wood burner now I need to get rid of this wood probably novermberish. Didn’t know what it was but I said I would gladly take it off his hands. Thinking I that would put me in a good spot for getting even/ ahead of schedule.
That being said. I just split about 4-5cords or 90% pin/red oak 10% maple that is pretty much rendered useless to me for the upcoming 2021 maybe into 2022 burn season.
I’m not complaining about the quantity of oak I have; however given the drying time required for oak, I am basically back to where I was at the beginning of the summer. With the additional hurdle of trying to locate additional room to repeat last summer all over again and have the stacks have enough room not to cramp each other.
So here are my thoughts. I can get bundles of slab wood for $40 a bundle. Depending on the bundles I would assume 5-6 bundles should get me through next winter, and be dry enough to burn by then. Buying another cord as I did last summer if I can get the cord of wood for the price I got last year.
In my opinion slab wood sucks it’s a pain to cut up, its messy, and it burns like paper some times.
But that’s about the only way I can figure I can manage it slabs and purchase cord wood can get stacked in the barn (my wood shed foundation is open on three sides)right away leaving me room to space out my stacks and hopefully get some other wood with a quicker dry time so I can keep cycling it from drying area to barn to house. the oak put quite the cog in my plan wasn’t planning on having that much wood with that long of dry time.
Any thoughts on alternate routes?
I moved into the house in March with zero wood.
Previous wood burner experience in a smaller house usually put me at 2-3 cords a year.
So after a bit of scrounging, a bit of tree trimming on the property, and buying some although cheap still bought some and I am trying not to do so.
Came up with about 6 cords. Twice as much wood as I normally used should be good for this winter for sure and a cord or two head start for next winter.
Well Turns out going from 1400 to 2100square feet, wife insisting burning started earlier than I anticipated, some of the wood I scrounged was a bit punky, and having a hotblast wood furnace over a wood burner. You burn A LOT more wood than you anticipated.
Mid-summer guy I know said I hear you have a wood burner now I need to get rid of this wood probably novermberish. Didn’t know what it was but I said I would gladly take it off his hands. Thinking I that would put me in a good spot for getting even/ ahead of schedule.
That being said. I just split about 4-5cords or 90% pin/red oak 10% maple that is pretty much rendered useless to me for the upcoming 2021 maybe into 2022 burn season.
I’m not complaining about the quantity of oak I have; however given the drying time required for oak, I am basically back to where I was at the beginning of the summer. With the additional hurdle of trying to locate additional room to repeat last summer all over again and have the stacks have enough room not to cramp each other.
So here are my thoughts. I can get bundles of slab wood for $40 a bundle. Depending on the bundles I would assume 5-6 bundles should get me through next winter, and be dry enough to burn by then. Buying another cord as I did last summer if I can get the cord of wood for the price I got last year.
In my opinion slab wood sucks it’s a pain to cut up, its messy, and it burns like paper some times.
But that’s about the only way I can figure I can manage it slabs and purchase cord wood can get stacked in the barn (my wood shed foundation is open on three sides)right away leaving me room to space out my stacks and hopefully get some other wood with a quicker dry time so I can keep cycling it from drying area to barn to house. the oak put quite the cog in my plan wasn’t planning on having that much wood with that long of dry time.
Any thoughts on alternate routes?
