This year I've been working hard to satisfy my newly acquired hoarding addiction. I had a few cords at the end of last winter, but am now proud to say that I reached my goal of 20 cords cut, split, and stacked. However, I'm curious how many cords all my hoarding brothers and sisters have? I'd like to use the levels of hoarding addiction Scotty provided in "The Official Firewood Hoarder's Club Thread" and take a poll. You can only vote for one option, but I believe you'll be able to change it as your wood pile grows or shrinks. I'm also curious what kind of wood you burn...feel free to comment on the types of firewood you have. I have approximately 10 cords of black locust, 7 cords of alder, and 3 cords of mixed white oak, douglas fir, cherry, and cottonwood. Feel free to provide pictures!!
I pretty much just keep the wood shed full, as I burn, I just fill in the hole, I don't bother to stack outside and then move to the woodshed after a year, the wood is mostly spruce and it dries just fine in the woodshed. 5 rows of 18-20" splits average height is 7' and the woodshed is 50' long = 20 cords.
I've got to the three year plan and starting my 4th. About 11-12 cords CSS. 90% oak. My 17/18 wood was stacked at the basement door in June. (lower right) The 18/19 wood is the left stack. The 19/20 wood is the right stack. I've since started adding some ash to the 18/19 stack and the 20/21 wood to the far right. the ugly shed should be out of there in a couple weeks. Gotta make room for more wood stacks... If it wasn't on the neighbors ROW it would stay and get filled with wood.
I only have about 6 cords currently C/S/S, all for this season, consisting of pine, black locust, ash, beech and white oak. Another 3-4 cords in rounds, mostly ash, pine, locust and soft maple. Another 12 cords in tree length, still needing C/S/S, almost entirely beech with a a bit of soft maple and ash. I have two woodsheds to fill, holding a total of 20 cords. After that I stop until I have a hole to fill.
Ten cords of Red Oak CSS and seasoned. One cord of White Pine for kindling. In the picture you can see two of the four pallets they are stacked on. They are 4x4x20 so 2 1/2 cords each.
I stopped keeping track of actual numbers. I know I have about 3 years ready to burn now and another 1/2 year give or take that needs split. If I had to guess I'm probably 18 cord stacked and 3 in rounds right now.
How much wood is enough wood? .....wait for it..... .....in your best Walter Brennan, The Real McCoys voice.... "More wood than you could burn in a life time!"
I'm sitting on an OBSCENE amount of firewood......counting what I have sitting in my processing area yet to split, I'm at around 55-58 cord. As we get closer to mid-fall, I'll give an exact number. I'm sorry, but yes, I have a wood hoarding probem! My goal started out to be 3 years ahead, then turned to 4 and then 5 years ahead.......once I have this stuff processed, I'll be close to 7 years ahead. And I've even been giving a chit-ton of wood away this year. The past full year, I've only kept the locust, oak, hickory, apple and a small amount of ash and cherry here and there..... As for what my stacks consist of, it's mostly red and white oak, followed by black locust, then hard maple, hickory, walnut and cherry.
Dang, Scotty...you do have an obscene amount of firewood and I want to be just like you ! Unfortunately my wife tells me I need to slow down and thinks I'm nuts for looking at firewood pictures. I don't think she'll notice if I cut another cord or two... Last year I thought I was well prepared for the winter with about 8 cords of black locust, but being new to hoarding I didn't realize that black locust needs to season for 2-3 years. I burned about 5 cords but it wasn't efficient and sometimes took some work to get the house warm. I tried to buy firewood off CL but couldn't get anyone to return my calls. I told myself this wouldn't happen again and that's how my hoarding addiction started. I'm now happy to say I have at least 4 years of firewood.:stacke:
I have about 13 cords of mostly Stringy bark (eucalyptus) and a cord of Sugar gum (eucalyptus). With probably 1 of Golden wattle (acacia) and Blackwood (acacia). I also have a cord of the coveted River red gum. (eucalyptus camaldulensis) 16 cords total about 8 year plan in these parts! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
They are the plastic liners from IBC totes cut in half diagonally. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
seasoned, ready to go: 4 cords of oak 2 cords of maple 1 cord of pine 1/3 cord of spruce My wood for 2019/2020 is cut but still unsplit nor stacked. I'm getting to it !!!!
Not enough. Two years worth, looking to get to four or more years. I plan for seven cords / year, I burn more like six on a cold winter.
Somewhere around 4 years worth put up. Lots more in the woods down that needs bucking. Mostly white ash, elm, cherry, pine, spruce, hemlock, red oak, pin oak and white oak. A little bit of birch
About 2 years worth, or about 10 cords. Mix of Oak, Red Maple, Ash, Pine, and maybe a cord of it is Beech. This time frame could change if we follow through on putting in a central heating system (blasphemy, I know). The wall furnace in the living room is obnoxiously loud, so we don't run it much, and there's the DV heater in the laundry room as well, but neither is what one would call energy efficient by today's standards. Still kickin' around ideas on that, but the wood is either 2 years or maybe 4......depends.
Have around 6 cords. Over 3 years stacked now. Maple, ash and oak. Don't burn as much as I did... especially the lard off m'azz...
