A friend of mine dropped me an email Friday asking me if I wanted 2/3rd of cord of firewood. He had done a couple of house relocations in the last two years or so and the latest home is across state lines and too far to haul his wood a second time. This was all very dry hardwood that was at least two years old under a sheet of old roof tin sitting on the sunny side of a garage. The house he is selling near me has been sitting on the market for awhile and I guess the wood pile although attractive to woodburners was something that needed to go for marketing the house. I gladly assisted and hauled the wood and took several sheets of the roof tin he had used to cover his wood (that he would have had to have junked). I had not moved my intended winters wood into the woodshed yet so it went right in. Its a nice mix of northern hardwood, maple, ash a bit of yellow birch and some cherry and is baked dry. I have one wood pile that going to get a sheet of the tin and then the other sheets will get hauled to where I get my wood and I will start a few covered piles out in the woods. This finally gets me into a full two year wood rotation. I am north of the "oak line" so 2 years is plenty of drying for the local wood.
Unexpected firewood gift
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I burn about 2.5 to 3 cords a year. That and my minisplit heats the house. About the only time my oil runs is when I am out of town in cold weather. Been three years since I last filled the oil tank.
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