How much wood do you have left?

[PapaDave]

Voted other. 3 2/3's in the front yard, covered for this winter. Gone thru about 2 cord so far. Five more in the backe for next winter, and started on the following winter's, with almost 2 cords in those stacks. 12-15 more in logs waiting to be processed.

 

[Slow1]

Went with 3 months as I figured the question was how much do I have ready to burn...

I figure I have enough to get through this winter that is ready to burn. I'm hoping to have at least 1/2 cord left over to allocate to next year which would mean that I used no more than 4 cords this year and thus would have enough for next year in place (I have about that stacked and seasoning for next year). My 2011/12 supply isn't looking quite as good - only have 1 cord stacked, about 1 cord cut, and maybe 1.5 cord sitting in logs so I need to get busy as it is all red oak which it seems now will not get as fully seasoned as it should even if I got it all done today. I need to find some softer wood to stack in for 11/12 and get busy collecting the hardwood for 12/13 I suppose. Never ends eh?

 

[Hanko]

I got 5 cords left, gone through 3 so far running 2 stoves 24/7. I have 30 cords at the farm split. and 10 waiting to be split

 

[jlow]

5 cords left and starting to stock up for next year.

 

[Lanningjw]

The party is almost over for me. Underestimated how much seasoned wood it takes to burn 24/7. I am gonna be OK for next years season. Maybe I can find someone around me that I can buy a cord from. It was fun while it lasted!

 

[mike1234]

I voted 1 month. Last year burned about 5 cords, this year started with about 8, down to 3, so I don't think I am going to make it. I really just wasted wood in the shoulder season, big mistake, and it has been a very cold winter. I have 6 already cut for next year, but not going to do me any good this winter, and I haven't been able to get out to cut since Christmas. Lot's of snow on the ground and today's high is 7.

With global warming shouldn't I be burning less?

 

[Redburn]

I have just under 5 cords left seasoned and 3 green for next year ..But am hoping to only burn 2.5 more this year......

 

[John_M]

Approx. 2 cords remaining of the original approx. 4 cords I had. Burning through March does not appear realistic unless we get some nice warm weather from south of the jet stream.

Started burning mornings and nights in September to break-in the new stove and begin the learning curve for proper burning. Because of the early start I used just a little more wood than I will next year.

Propane fired hot water baseboard heat will take over when I run out of wood.

John_M

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I doubt we have much more than about a 6 year supply left.

 

[FireWalker]

I have plenty for this winter and I've done all the work I can do to next years, the rest will come naturally with time.

 

[PapaDave]

I doubt we have much more than about a 6 year supply left.

Ok,
Dennis, Quads, and you guys with more wood than you know what to do with can no longer vote in these kinds of threads.
I mean....really, it's just.......inhumane.
:lol:

 

[Danno77]

i should be midway with my wood exactly at midway through heating season.

 

[Slow1]

i should be midway with my wood exactly at midway through heating season.

Ahhh... now shall we start the great debate on when exactly that is?

 

[grommal]

Not enough to last the season, if it stays this cold much longer. I'll probably run out in mid-Feb.

Burned quite a bit more wood this year with the new stove. While some of that might be learning curve, most of it is that the new stove ran so easily we just used it 24/7 starting pretty early in the season and never looked back. I suppose that's a good thing, though. I'll just have to be more prepared for next year.

 

[Danno77]

i should be midway with my wood exactly at midway through heating season.

Ahhh... now shall we start the great debate on when exactly that is?

well, if you only heat with wood, then I'd say it's when you are half-way through your stack, lol.

I'm just using an unofficial date that I've stored as January 22. you were there, too. seems like I might as well just pick a day and stick to it.
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/48173/

 

[fire_man]

I have 10 chords stacked and seasoned in the back yard for this year and next year.Yesterday I got a 7 chord truck load which is for +3 years out. Do you see what listening to all the posts in this forum has done to me? I heeded the relentless advice to pursue DRY SEASONED wood and now I am a mad man who craves splits!
%-P

 

[BrotherBart]

Do you see what listening to all the posts in this forum has done to me? I heeded the relentless advice to pursue DRY SEASONED wood and now I am a mad man who craves splits!
%-P

I hear ya. Four seasons ago I stopped through here and at the time had been burning a pre-EPA insert upstairs and a barrel or tin stove in the basement cutting my wood in the spring and summer for the season for decades. Two years into the forum I had three EPA stoves, a pellet stove and was dead on my feet from getting three years ahead on cut/split/stacked wood.

Hey, I was happy back before I knew better.

 

[bmwloco]

3 cords stacked for late winter early spring, down to less than a 1/3 cord of seasoned and another dry, very seasoned, set of logs to cut and split.

My wife and I agree: this is the coldest winter in Western North Carolina we remember since our youth in the 70's.

 

[PapaDave]

I have 10 chords stacked and seasoned in the back yard for this year and next year.Yesterday I got a 7 chord truck load which is for +3 years out. Do you see what listening to all the posts in this forum has done to me? I heeded the relentless advice to pursue DRY SEASONED wood and now I am a mad man who craves splits!
%-P

That's the way I do it too. My last one was a 20 cord load. The one before was also 20 cord, but I split that one with my brother.
Also pull a little from the property and this spring/summer plan to get some standing/down dead oak/maple at my sister-in-laws.
Some for her, some for me. Some for her, more for me. Some for me, some more for me. Might have to adjust that when she shows up. :cheese:

 

[BrowningBAR]

I have 10 chords stacked and seasoned in the back yard for this year and next year.Yesterday I got a 7 chord truck load which is for +3 years out. Do you see what listening to all the posts in this forum has done to me? I heeded the relentless advice to pursue DRY SEASONED wood and now I am a mad man who craves splits!
%-P

My other driving force for large quantities of wood is to get a lower price per cord. Paying $200-$250 per cord seems counter productive to burning wood. This year the wood I'm burning cost me $50 per cord. The next two years wood cost me far less than that and I solved my future wood supplies by finding a lumber yard that will deliver uncut logs at an equivalent to $80 a cord.

 

[NH_Wood]

I have 10 chords stacked and seasoned in the back yard for this year and next year.Yesterday I got a 7 chord truck load which is for +3 years out. Do you see what listening to all the posts in this forum has done to me? I heeded the relentless advice to pursue DRY SEASONED wood and now I am a mad man who craves splits!
%-P

I'm fairly close to you. Question for you and others. I can cut 3 cord free from the property where I work. I'd like to get very far ahead on wood and would like to get log loads delivered - can you all give me an idea of what the cost per cord typically works out to be for green logs delivered?

 

[fire_man]

I have 10 chords stacked and seasoned in the back yard for this year and next year.Yesterday I got a 7 chord truck load which is for +3 years out. Do you see what listening to all the posts in this forum has done to me? I heeded the relentless advice to pursue DRY SEASONED wood and now I am a mad man who craves splits!
%-P

My other driving force for large quantities of wood is to get a lower price per cord. Paying $200-$250 per cord seems counter productive to burning wood. This year the wood I'm burning cost me $50 per cord. The next two years wood cost me far less than that and I solved my future wood supplies by finding a lumber yard that will deliver uncut logs at an equivalent to $80 a cord.

You did better than me. I paid $650 for the Grapple load (7 chords so its a little under $100/chord). But cutting,splitting and stacking wood is so much more fun than walking all the way across the room and just turning up a thermostat!

 

[jasong]

I still have 5 1/2 cords left. I cut up but didn't split about two more cords last weekend. I didn't need it. It was free and they were going to burn it if I didn't take it.

 

[LLigetfa]

Please people, it's cord, not chord and the plural of cord is cord, not cords or chords.

 

[76ER]

HA!...I have about 6 face cord left +/- and my new Drolet Legend is sitting in the kitchen ready to take it's perch. I wish someone up here sold real cords.

Ian