My wife and I are up in Nova Scotia , Canada for a few days visiting her family. Her uncle has a wood burning stove and of course I couldn't wait to jump right in. The stove is an intertech (?) steel stove, it has octagonal features with a blower underneath. Nothing I have ever seen. Anyways, what interested me the most about his story is how he gets his wood. He purchases his hardwood trees in advance from his dealer, he pays by the tree and the dealer estimates what the yields will be. The winter before the next burn the dealer cuts and bucks his trees and in early march he splits them and begins to dry them in long rows as is. When I mean 'as is' I mean everything the tree has except for the branches he pays for and gets, to include; shorties, bark, kindling produced in the process, everything. It all goes together and dries over the summer. He gets mostly maple when he pays, then again there not a bunch of hardwood in Atlantic Canada anyways. Then in the fall the dealer delivers his wood and does resplits while he is there to show the MC. A lot of folks up here like this guy and use him. My wife's uncle paid $600.00 Canadian for 2 cords delivered from the valley. Interesting....
I'm using some rock maple and fir right now, just did a reload. The intertech went from 8am to now 6pm (atlantic time) on a morning load of all rock maple. Nice bed of coals when I got back, easy reload. So far today using another mans stove, 8 splits and odds and ends to fill in. This load probably won't make it through the night.
That is pretty interesting. It's nice to hear a firewood guy using a moisture meter. When you say dealer do you mean seperate firewood dealer or his wood stove dealer?
This is just his firewood dealer/processor. My wifes uncle tells me that using the moisture meter is what makes most of his business and doing it with the customer present helps him with return customers.
