Do you deliver your wood or have people pick it up? If you deliver throw a measured cord in your delivery truck and mark how high it comes up on the sides with spray paint. I sell 60-70 cords a year, never stack and have never had a single complaint doing this.
If you think this could work for you, just move your wood pile to a place that gets full sun and wind exposure to ensure proper drying. My piles are usually about 18' wide, 8' high, and up to 100' long on a good year. And from my experience, piles that run north/south dry better than ones that run east/west.
I deliver maybe half of what I sell, the rest the customers pick up. I know how much goes in my delivery set up so that stuff I just grab from the pile. The stacked stuff is just for the customers who pick up.
Last year I sold a little over 100 cords, but am going to do things different this year. Going to charge a little more and sell a little less, end up making the same money, hopefully.
I plan to have around 60 cords ready to go and when thats gone, I am done for the year. Last yr I had 62 cords ready and they were gone before Christmas so I had to keep cutting standing dead to keep up.
Not going to do that this year. I will keep cutting but it will be next years wood, not this years. Running out of wood that is dry enough to go from the woods to the stove.
Ted
Ok, now my head hurts after all that cypherin'.
