Unfortunately I will not be able to live the old fable this winter. We bought this house last spring and the previous owner said you will go through 12 face cord running the Eko 40... I went out and hauled home 16 fc cut, split, and seasoned wood and began to do my research here on my new to me stove. Turns out, that was not enough. I am going to run out of wood! Last Month I had a full 30+/- fc load of R. Oak, R. Maple, Cherry logs delivered. I have cut, split and stacked over half of the load so far, need to get ready for next winter. The wood I am burning now has a mc of about 7-12% and the wood I just cut and split has a mc of about 20-30%. Here is my question; is it better to mix in a stick of the new wet wood here and there OR wait till I run out of the dry wood in a month or two and run the wet wood 100%? I know that it won't have dried much in two months time and it's got to be hard to burn wet wood in an EKO, nearly impossible. Must be easier to burn a stick or two of wet wood with a BUNCH of dry wood. What do you guys think?
Oh yea, not going to have $300-400 worth of cut, split, and seasoned wood dropped off, my wife would never go for that!!
Oh yea, not going to have $300-400 worth of cut, split, and seasoned wood dropped off, my wife would never go for that!!