Here’s That Firewood You Ordered
May 28th, 2014 · No Comments · Posted in rural life
Seems like winter just ended, but we’re already loading up on firewood for the cold weather to come.
When you heat with wood, you never really stop thinking about it. If you’re not gathering it on your own property, you’re having it trucked in by somebody local who cuts firewood for a living. What you’re looking at here is two cords, or $420 worth. The pile on the right is somewhat less than a cord of American cherry and other species we split here on the farm from trees that had fallen out of the hedgerow.
Oak, maple, ash–those are the varieties you see most often in our part of the country. But this is just the first step. We next have to stack the firewood on the pallets we’ve laid down for that purpose. This past winter was particularly harsh. I’m guess we used at least three cords of wood, a cord being a neatly stacked pile measuring four feet wide, four feet tall and eight feet long. We foraged plenty of wood in the fall, in addition to the four cords we had purchased a year ago. That left a tidy chunk still standing on the pallets, meaning we may now have enough wood to see us through to 2015.
Now, about that stacking. Any volunteers?
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