That's too bad andybody selling wood ought to know how much a cord is, like someone else said the first year will be the toughest.jaydee said:Update: I went ahead and stacked the wood: it filled two 4 x 8 racks completely, but only 1/2 of the third (16 in. length.)
I'd ordered another cord, and brought the matter up on delivery. The wood guy tried to tell me that two racks equals one cord. Mentioned 128 cubic feet, intimating that he was giving me more than that.
Sheesh. I like the wood, but his is a bit high priced for the area. At least give me what you say I'm paying for!
jaydee said:Update: I went ahead and stacked the wood: it filled two 4 x 8 racks completely, but only 1/2 of the third (16 in. length.)
I'd ordered another cord, and brought the matter up on delivery. The wood guy tried to tell me that two racks equals one cord. Mentioned 128 cubic feet, intimating that he was giving me more than that.
Sheesh. I like the wood, but his is a bit high priced for the area. At least give me what you say I'm paying for!
StihlyinEly said:I've burned a lot of oak over the years that I split and stacked the previous spring. Mostly, if the splits are smallish, it's cross-stacked and protected from rain with a top but no sides and put in an open location, it's good to go by October. Yours seems to fit all those criteria. I like to pull the top covering off when it's not rainy to let wind/sun act even more quickly. It's of course worth noting that summers in Georgia are a lot more humid than they up up here on the Canadian Shield, and that will slow down the seasoning process.
I do also very much like to lay in a supply of white birch or ash, also well seasoned, for getting a nice bed of coals to lay those first oak splits of the day on. The birch and ash are about medium on the heaviness/BTU scale, and an armful of that stuff followed by oak the rest of the day has been an excellent recipe for me. When I've been in oak country (I'm not right now), I generally like to lay in about 4/5 oak and 1/5 lighter stuff (not including kindling).
Sounds to me like you have found one good woodseller, the one who sold you the first bunch. See if he's got any lighter wood for sale to go with the oak. If not, and he finds out you want some, he may very well start supplying it.
Have fun with it. Wood, there's nothing quite like heating with it. (broken image removed)
Did you give him a math lesson? Since he mentioned 128 cu ft, he obviously knows what the regulations are and he's counting on you not being able to do the math.jaydee said:Mentioned 128 cubic feet, intimating that he was giving me more than that.
Nothing wrong with that info, burning wood for over 30 years and yes the oak can be ready by fall if cut stacked and split early, put it in single rows in the wind and sun and the wood will be dryer than a lot of people think on this forum.lobsta1 said:StihlyinEly said:I've burned a lot of oak over the years that I split and stacked the previous spring. Mostly, if the splits are smallish, it's cross-stacked and protected from rain with a top but no sides and put in an open location, it's good to go by October. Yours seems to fit all those criteria. I like to pull the top covering off when it's not rainy to let wind/sun act even more quickly. It's of course worth noting that summers in Georgia are a lot more humid than they up up here on the Canadian Shield, and that will slow down the seasoning process.
I do also very much like to lay in a supply of white birch or ash, also well seasoned, for getting a nice bed of coals to lay those first oak splits of the day on. The birch and ash are about medium on the heaviness/BTU scale, and an armful of that stuff followed by oak the rest of the day has been an excellent recipe for me. When I've been in oak country (I'm not right now), I generally like to lay in about 4/5 oak and 1/5 lighter stuff (not including kindling).
Sounds to me like you have found one good woodseller, the one who sold you the first bunch. See if he's got any lighter wood for sale to go with the oak. If not, and he finds out you want some, he may very well start supplying it.
Have fun with it. Wood, there's nothing quite like heating with it. (broken image removed)
I don't mean to be picky but if Jaydee has a new EPA type stove then I seriously doubt that your advice on burning unseasoned oak will apply as your sig says you have a 35 year old Kuuma furnace. The burning characteristics are even further apart than apples & rutabagas.
Al
Any other options for fire wood or you just gonna have to keep looking, do you plan on cutting your own later?jaydee said:It wasn't worth doing a math lesson - I made my point. Maybe he thought he could throw a few numbers around and sound like he knew what he was talking about. With info at the fingertips via internet, the days of getting away with that are just about over.
Backwoods Savage said:I also think perhaps you are putting too much faith in the ends cracking. That can really give you a false sense of security. I cut wood during the winter and just stack it up until spring. Wood that I cut in January will already be showing cracking on the ends by March! Just remember that the wood will definitely dry on the ends of the splits first and it can happen rapidly.
If you buy more wood that you plan on burning next fall, you'd best stay far away from oaks. Ash, cherry, birch, etc. would be some candidates to consider. Whatever you do, do it quickly.
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