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About 5 cords, mixed hardwoods
HeatMor outdoor wood ‘boiler’
3100ft sqft

Only really fire the furnace from about Thanksgiving to Mid February.

Northwest TN

Other sources suppliment

2500 sq foot house, we only turn on the central heat if we are leaving town. So far this year i have burned 7 truck loads of hickory.

Full Cord, Standard Cord = 4' x 4' x 8'

Face Cord is 4' x 8' 16" - 20" cut length, never heard the term "rick".

Was using the term face cord back in the 70s and 80s when Dad and his buddies were in the wood business.

Around here nobody knows or cares what a cord is. It's bought/sold by the truck or trailer load. 6 foot bed, 8 foot bed, single axle dump load, double axle dump load, tri-axle, etc. 6 foot trailer, 8 foot trailer, 12 foot trailer, etc. Level or heaped is a good question to ask over the phone when calling on it.

Most around here cut their own though, and just get up a pile as big or bigger than used in previous winter's. Some do bother to stack it pretty and neat. Usually 4 ft high, and as long as it needs to be.

A ton of pellets is about 1.5 cord.

3-4 cords per year. Going on three years not running our geothermal heat pump.
Mostly ash and beech this year and the pile is being consumed much faster than the last couple. Need to get more elm put up next year.

Dang, I miss a wood stove. Reading this makes my back start hurting just thinking about stacking wood. After a couple zippers in my lower back, I can't hack it anymore. I do like a nice fireplace in winter evenings.

3000ft2 with a Central Boiler 6048.

Burning it for 11yrs now and I’m still waiting for a year where I’m not burning a lot of what I call garbage wood (spruce, red pine, cottonwood, box elder) to see what the minimum I can get away with is. There usually a 50/50 mix of hardwood (oak, hard maple, locust, cherry, walnut) along with the softwood species. That said, I’m usually burning 7-10 full cord (4x4x8) per year depending on the severity of the weather.

This year as a gift my wife bought me 6 face cord of oak slab wood from a mill which was noticeably less effective than proper, cured firewood but it burned all the same and it put us in that much better shape for next year. It was the thought that counted. ☺️

7-10 cord with a central boiler seems about average here, too.

Slabs seasoned for a year or two are comparable to any other cord wood IME. you do have to Tetris them in the firebox though to minimize airspace and surface area. At least that is how I use them, when I have them.

Any have an outside furnace?

Read the thread moron and stop putting people on fàggie ignore. Then you’d know

most people sell face cords around here but they conveniently fill up the back of a pickup truck, a face chord goes for about $120 with a delivery fee if you don't pick it up.

I have a local kid that has the dead ash tree market cornered, started out doing it all by hand 3 years ago, now he has a gas powered splitter and brings in about 2000 a week in the fall.

We cut firewood for two houses. Both houses were built over 100 years ago, but have been renovated. They both have the same crown royal outdoor stove. With average winter weather, we fill it at night, then throw a few logs on in the morning. It's nice because you don't spend has much time splitting or checking the fire. A pick up truck load(not stacked) will last about a week

I stack em 4' high and double wide 16" cuts. i need an inch over 12' long to make a full cord.
Mostly ash and oak.

I have 36' of this , which is just a hair under 3 cords of split seasoned.

I also have about 3/4 cords of unseasoned "crap" wood that I scrounge from wherever along the way. Its set up on pallets in front of my good stuff.

I've burned through all of the crap (3/4 cord) in the fall through most of Dec and maybe 1/4 cord of the good stuff from late Dec till today.

5 bedroom split level. I turn the heat fully off until December. Turn it off again in march. So it ends up being about 50% of heating in the coldest months and 100% of heating in the shoulder seasons.

I suspect I'll use just shy of 3 cords by late spring. More than I have to, but I like to burn it, enjoy a fire, and do it for exercise as well. I'm about 300 years old.

Lopi insert. Medium.

Northern NJ.

Probably do 4 cords this year. Propane furnace primary with EPA freestanding stove in basement and EPA insert in living room. Insert is burned whenever anyone's awake, and basement stove burned whenever working down there.

I built a woodshed with a 11' x 12' stacking area, so 1 foot of stack height gets me about a cord. I started with it full, stacked a little under 8' high, minus part of one row. We'll use half the stack, reload that half over the summer, then use the other side next winter. Should be nice and dry.

Lots of alder around here which is meh for heat value, but it works. Nice to have the odd maple or cherry mixed in with it.

No clue, I usually burn 4 gal of gas through my chain saw when I'm cutting. My wood pile is prob 20x40x8'. Have never burnt the entire pile in one winter. Nice to have some if I ever need it. Add on wood stove/furnace in a 2200sq' home. NW/Pa.

Same. Feel for those that have never burned "hedge"/Osage Orange.

Burn 6.5 to 7 full cord of wood a year in northern Wisconsin. Have a built in Cozy Heat fireplace with glass doors. We enjoy the wood heat and like the ambiance of a burning fire. Store a minimum of 3 years of wood covered and stacked. 50% poplar and the rest a mix of maple, red oak and a little white birch. Our home is relatively new with tall vaulted ceilings but very well insulated. Have a propane furnace, two gas ovens/stoves and a gas water heater. Typically use 225 +/- gallons of propane August to August. I love cutting and splitting firewood. The stacking part is a pain but it helps keep me in shape!

Mainly burn locust and oak mixed with some ash

About 4 cords, maybe a little more.

Many times we had a big potbelly in my buddy’s dad’s barn glowing orange with scraps of bo’dark from cutting bow staves. Probably a good thing that old stove was right out in the middle of the concrete floor in that barn or we’d have burned something down for sure.