So far at our vacation cabin we have burned about 2.5 cords of wood since October. This is burning friday night through sunday afternoon. Now this was a 50/50 mix of japanese kunuki (medium Oak) and pine/fir. so obviously the pine and fir burn very quickly getting the stove hot I then though in the oak. Next season I will be burning a much lower percentage of pine and fir as i will have burned off my stocks of that and will be using primarily Oak.
So my question's are these:
how much more Oak will i burn since I will not be burning the pine? i would think a lot less than the 1.2 cords of pine I burned this year. I noticed that the oak last roughly 2x the time the pine does in the stove So I was thinking roughly i might burn 2 cords of oak total next year (we still have another month of burning hear at the minimum)
with 6 cords storage in my drying racks, do i have enough to keep oak drying in a timely fashion to use it? figure rack A is fresh cut, rack B is one year old and rack C is two years old and ready to go.
Thoughts? Suggstions?
Ken
To clarify my stupid post....we burn friday, saturday, and sunday every weekend and in the last 4 1/2 months have burned about 2.5 cords of mixed.
So my question's are these:
how much more Oak will i burn since I will not be burning the pine? i would think a lot less than the 1.2 cords of pine I burned this year. I noticed that the oak last roughly 2x the time the pine does in the stove So I was thinking roughly i might burn 2 cords of oak total next year (we still have another month of burning hear at the minimum)
with 6 cords storage in my drying racks, do i have enough to keep oak drying in a timely fashion to use it? figure rack A is fresh cut, rack B is one year old and rack C is two years old and ready to go.
Thoughts? Suggstions?
Ken
To clarify my stupid post....we burn friday, saturday, and sunday every weekend and in the last 4 1/2 months have burned about 2.5 cords of mixed.