(September 27, 2022 at 8:20 am)onlinebiker Wrote: I have gotten out of the cutting and splitting business as much as possible. I have found woodcutters are happy to get rid of green wood in the spring. Everybody wants seasoned wood.
We have enough barn space to store and season many years worth of wood. It gives us a good advantage. When you buy green wood - you don't get any dry rotted.
We go through 4-5 cord of wood on an average year heating the house and shop. ( cord = 3.625 cubic meter of stacked wood)
I was burning nearly five cords of wood annually for the first few years I was living here (1976). I was clearing a lot of dead trees from my property at the time and the house wasn't well insulated. My wood consumption was consistently at 3-5/8 cords annually after I had the house insulated and double-paned windows installed. Upgrading to better windows during the mid-1990's lowered my annual firewood use to 3¼ cords, where it remained until I had to give up wood heat around 2015.
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