stretching your firewood supply

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It's been brutal back east. More like the winters I grew up in. See if they can buy some compressed sawdust bricks or log fuel. Avoid the cheapies. BioBrick, RedStone, ECO bricks are good. So are HomeFire's Prest-Logs.
Definitely a colder winter here. The pine logs i had been working on have been buried in snow with no melting for 3 weeks now.
 
It's been brutal back east. More like the winters I grew up in. See if they can buy some compressed sawdust bricks or log fuel. Avoid the cheapies. BioBrick, RedStone, ECO bricks are good. So are HomeFire's Prest-Logs.
I've burned Green Mountain 'Firewood' compressed sawdust logs and been pleased with it. Burns hot when it catches. Usually only one log per load in my case. Also like to cut them into smaller sections and 'fit' them into the tetris crevices.