Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How much firewood…

…do you use in a typical season?

What type of application are you using firewood for?

We have an older (original house was 1890) home that has been added on, about 1900 sq ft now. Heated exclusively with a wood stove. We burn 4 or so cord a season.

1970s Brunco coal/wood stove
Seasoned hardwood
(Very dry pine is sometimes used in fall or spring)

NW PA

ETA: for reference, I am referring to a “full” cord, as in 128 cu/ft of wood. The classic 4x4x8 stuff.

Woodstove only for heat. 3 cords per year

3 truck loads fisher woodstove in the basement

Propane heat now.

Old house, woodstove/furnace.

10 cords of seasoned birch, per winter.

Man, that sounds like a lot of work. And a ton of ash to toss out. I feel for guys using softwoods (including the softer-hardwoods)

We use gas central heat at night, wood stove during the day. Still burn 3.5 to 4 "face" cords* a year.
We could probably save a little money if we used LPG only, but NOTHING heats like a good wood stove!

* - a "cord" used to be 4'×4'×8'. A stack of wood 4 foot wide, 4 foot tall and 8 foot long.
Now, firewood sellers work on a "face cord".
That stack of wood 1'×4'×8'. ...and seldom is a face cord more than 16 to 18 inches wide. My supplier apparently lost his tape measure! LOL!
"Stove" wood should be 12 inches long.
Fireplace wood should be 24 inches long.

2000 square feet, 1.5 cords a winter.

Ah yes…face cord, bush cord, rick, rack…there are too many ways to do it!

For my intentions, I am referring to 128 cu/ft as a cord.

My stove can handle 22” pieces. But I cut them under 18” usually. But I get a lot of tree service wood and it can vary wildly in lengths so I burn what I have!

Yep, tons of work, but it was vital too !

Often;



About a months worth;



+ some utterly brutal;

Dam🥶🥶

Wood ashes are good fertilizer.

Briiiiiiiiiii!

We put it on the driveway, dust for chickens and in the flower beds. Also works well to clean the glass.

1850 +/- sq. ft. - Treemont free standing wood stove (in use 35+ years) going 24/7 - Southern Michigan - 12 - 14 face cords oak & cherry per season.

I burn a cord or so, depending on how much time is spent in the shop, on projects. I never heard of face cord until a few years ago on campfire. It was always a cord or rick of wood. Rick being 16”x 4’ x 8’. Three rick make a cord.

Don't know what part of the country you live in...but all that is news to me. I sold wood as a sideline of me and my son's logging biz.
A cord here, is the usual 4x4x8 yes, but it is 3 rows, called tiers, of 16" unless a customer wants a custom length , 3 times 16" is 48" which is the width of a cord.(which fits all stoves made in the west). I never saw the term 'face cord' ever. My son and I occasionally purchased salvage wood from an active timber sale we had, and a couple times the Forest Service audited our salvage loads, bought and paid for by the thousand board feet...they could care less about cords...although private wood permits issued by them are per 1/4 cord, described as a 'well stacked unit of wood 4x4x8'. No length specified because so many combinations will equal 128 cu ft. An old southerner around here refers to a 'rick' of wood..lol...I don't have a clue. But he sure knows how to smoke bacons and hams. So I bring him a 'rick' of seasoned maple now and then and he doesn't complain.

1800sf mainly wood heat but we did put a wall mount NG heater in the kitchen to supplement. Wood burner is a small “The Earth Stove” from the 70’s.

When it’s cold we keep it going round the clock and burn right at a Rick a week. Thankfully we only get a few weeks of really cold weather a winter on average. We usually use about 2 1/2-3 cord a year.

Prefer to burn Red oak, blackjack oak, black locust, black walnut, and red elm in that order. Will slum Ash or pecan if we have one that needs to be cut up anyway.

Well I heat with a wood pellet stove. How many pellet's are in a cord? :-)

When I lived in Ne Pa. I used to stacked 8-10 cords of seasoned hardwood a year. We had an Englander wood furnace with a huge blower assembly, It was cold and very damp on our ridge and this heated 2500 sq ft plenty fine. Mostly tried to burn hard maple and oak for the ease of processing. Beech and other less straight and knotty woods used as trees fell . Since I have moved to Wyoming , cheap natural gas has spoiled me and my back thanks me...........

A lot of good ash wood since the beetles killed them.