What’s in a Cord?
September 29th, 2015 · No Comments · Posted in rural life
Can it be heating season already?
Time to move the love seat and the jade plant off the front porch and make way for some firewood.
We stage our firewood on the porch before bringing it into the house since otherwise it would be sitting in a stack out in the weather. These metal brackets from Home Depot were one of our best purchases so far. We have two and they hold plenty of logs.
We’ve had mixed luck with firewood this year. In the spring, we noticed on he bulletin board at the library that a local logger was offering unseasoned wood for the bargain price of $160 a cord. (A cord is a stack four feet tall, four feet wide and eight feet long. We use about threes cords in a season.)
He arrived with a heap of wood piled in a dumpster trailer that wasn’t working. The logs we discovered were much larger in girth than we are used to and when we got them all stacked we were significantly short of the two cords we’d paid for.
When we called to ask him about this, he said he could easily cut the wood smaller and add a bit to his pile with the next delivery. But then he stopped returning our calls.
It was then we called Sarah from Vermont. We’ve bought firewood from Sarah before and we love the way she does business. Her wood costs considerably more–$220 a cord–but she brings it in a shiny red dump truck with the wood all neatly stacked, so you know precisely how much it is. It’s a shame she has to dump it out into a pile for us to stack all over again.
And that’s the project we started today. But first to get a supply of dry wood on the porch before it starts raining. The front loader on the tractor is a big help with this.
Now it’s raining.
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