A STURDY WOODBOX FOR SERIOUS WOODBURNERS

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December/January 1992
 
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So what caused the wallpaper of these nice folk's home to come off? Living trees contain up to 50 percent water. Placing them in your house without preparing them first is just inviting all that moisture into your den. If logs are left in the woods for six months or so, the wood will dry to the same moisture content as the air—about 25 percent. (That's "seasoned" wood—discernable from "green" wood by its dry and cracked ends.) It burns, but a quarter of its energy is still lost in evaporating water. Better to cut or buy wood a year before use. After the first six months in the woods, it should be split (the better to evaporate even more water) and stacked loosely in the sun under a black plastic tarp.

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A cord is defined as 128 cubic feet—no longer than a 4x4x8-foot stack—of wood. Most states require sellers to provide an honest cord of seasoned wood and; still others regulate price as well (about $100 per cord). Green wood should cost 25 percent less. Beware of buying non-regulated "face cords," "ricks," or "bundles."

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