I am still way ahead on wood. Let..hmm...4 truckloads go out to people who ran out this winter. One load, young guys the boss hires now and then for oddjobs, brothers, burned me and never came back with the scratch, and it was *cheap* too. Couldn't see people freezing, but live and learn. Another load will be going out maybe tomorrow, old oddball mixed stuff. this is the first time this year I let some go when people asked for a load and I only did it because it was so freaking cold, and the propane around here fell flat, no one could get any, and apparently all the dryu wood ran out! It's like for three weeks there, nada. My boss is one of the larger buyers around here for propane and even he couldn't get a gallon for weeks. Finally some trucks came back from up north and some expensive propane is being delivered now. Supposedly the prices will drop soon to back to normal levels. Firewood, everything I see people getting delivered the past few weeks looked green to me, up and down the street. I think I have the only large dry stash around here .
And I'm a fixin to make moah.
For us, I am burning pine splits and uglies and chunks of I have no idea what it is wood right now, bark long gone, from years ago. I have around 1/2 cord left in what was this years stack, so supplementing with uglies and pine, came out about just right. I had planned on that anyway.
Anyway, my big 500 foot project, if I get one cord per ten feet of trees, that's 50 cord coming. so far way over one cord per ten feet of trees, just stacking rounds now and splitting some but not much. Trying to fit in preliminary gardening cleanup and now that it has warmed up some, equipment repair, mostly back to working on junk project trucks and my alleged daily driver.... I just wussed, can't work on nothing mechanical in the winter anymore, fingers won't work. Got all sorts of projects I am behind on.
You guys with shops and garages...way cool! What a concept!
Or should I say..way warm, out of the wind and dry!
Ya, long cold winter. I know not like most of what ya'all are experiencing, not even close, but cold enough for me, and it is all relative. I do a ton of wood in the beastly heat every year to make up for winter too cold and too muddy to get in and out easily.