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About the firewood for wood burning stove, you buy from firewood suppliers or get them by yourself?

Hey, wood stoves users, you buy firewood for your wood stoves or cut down trees, split trees into firewood?

If you store them by yourselves, I want to know when you start to cut down trees and how many months they need to dry.

Any answer will be appreciated!

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    For me, I buy firewood in my local stove retails. However, if you have some trees, you can make them as the firewood, which saves much money.

    However, if you have no, you need to buy the wood, when you are choose the logs in stores, you also choose keep some points in your mind. Not all firewood on sale is enough dry to be burned for your log burner, hope this post can help you a lot

    http://www.astove.co.uk/blog/hot-to-select-and-sto...

    It tells that not only benefits of wood fuel heating, also introduce you tips to select and store firewoods.

    After buying the firewood, you need to store it, but how, another article can benefit you. http://www.astove.co.uk/blog/instructions-about-ho...

    Hope these can help you.

  • 9 years ago

    Both are acceptable sources of wood. If buying from a wood lot, get hardwood only, and preferably 'seasoned' or dried for a year, properly stacked to air-dry. The weight of the wood will tell you how dry it is - heavy means it is still wet, too light and it burns too fast for a lasting hot fire.

    We have a wooded country lot, so we cut and split our own, renting a log splitter once a year to do it all in one day. Sappy woods such as cedar and pine should not be used for an indoor fire, only campfires. The sap clogs the chimney, leading to possible dangerous chimney fires. Clean the chimney well every fall before using the stove! Stacked in a log cabin pattern in a breezy covered spot, the wood will dry faster than in a parallel stack in the open exposed to rain.

    Wood should age for at least six months before using, and preferably a year depending on how and where you store it. Never store wood indoors (bugs and critters!) but bring in a supply each day to thaw and warm up before burning.

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    Source(s): two air-tight stoves, one fireplace, one campfire pit
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