Oh, and Chad, yes, that’s pretty much exactly what we’re doing: burning green wood.
We get our firewood from a logger up the road. He brings us a truckload of fresh-cut oak sometime in mid-summer. I try to get it cut and split and drying, but I never do. I mean, it totally sucks working on the wood pile in summer!
We’ve never had enough money to pay for an extra stack of firewood so that we can get a year ahead, but I think that’s gonna change. I’ve had a couple biggish jobs for the BAT come through in the past month, so I think I’m going to turn that money into a pile of wood before the spring thaw.
I’m also hoping to build a wood shed in early summer. That oughtta go a long way toward helping season the wood, too.
I get a full load (around 11-12 cord) for about $500 down here. I cut and split it in the winter (too hot and sticky in the summer!) for the following winter. In the fall I then sell about 1/2 of the cut/split/dried and use the money to buy another full load of logs for the next year. In fact, I have a rather large pile of oak and hickory in my yard right now that needs to be converted into smaller, bite sized pieces…