Photo Essay: How is Your Maine Firewood Made?
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Editor's Note: Ever wonder where firewood comes from? How it's made? Photographer Tony Bessey took his camera to Doug Thomas's firewood operation in Ripley, Maine. Doug wrote the text. Together they produced a great little photo essay.
A Pictorial Essay: How Your Firewood is Made
photos by Tony Bessey
Thanks Scott
How is the firewood business in general, Doug?
It's slow for this time of year.
Doug...on topic question for you. If I get cut/spit green wood in the next week or two how burnable will it be come fall/winter. I've only ever bought seasoned wood and the price difference between green and seasoned only seems to be growing.
sarclmbr,
Every stove and every person is different, but for myself I'd be buying green wood now. I'd make sure to get it off the ground in a place where there's going to be plenty of air moving, cover the top to keep the rain off, and leave the sides open for air circulation.
I like my wood with a little higher moisture content than some do because if the wood is too dry you lose heat up the chimney. In any case you need to keep the chimney clean no matter.
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Nicely done. (That Doug has quite a way with words!)
Coincidentally today is day one of a construction project here in Vermont where we are building new, bigger firewood kilns for a customer who dries about 5500 cords per year. Should be quite a thing, once it's running.
And all this thread does is remind me how far behind I am on my OWN firewood pile.........