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Firewood — 14 items

Link Cutting Firewood Safely
Cutting your own firewood can be a very worthwhile and rewarding experience if done properly. However, if it is done improperly without regard to safe cutting ...
Link Firewood for Home Heating
The comfort of a wood fire on a cold night; the feeling of self-reliance that comes with cutting, splitting, and stacking a cord of wood; and a reduced ...
Link Firewood: How to Obtain, Measure, Season, and Burn
This fact sheet discusses the acquisition of firewood and the characteristics of different woods, along with the precautions that should be taken to properly ...
Link Gathering, Preparing, and Storing Firewood
When gathering firewood for your own use you may be faced with several options. Trees may be felled and bucked (cut into pieces that fit your fireplace) ...
Link Heating With Wood Series
This publication discusses the suitability of wood for residential heating, the types of heating units available and some of the the factors which must be ...
Link How to Buy and Sell Cordwood
One of the first questions wood burners ask about wood is "How much per cord?" Price is important, but just as important is agreement on a standard way to ...
Link Managing your Forest Landscape for Firewood
Management of a small woodlot is not that different from managing large tracts of land. The key to management is knowing how to inventory the initial volume ...
Link Managing Your Woodlot for Firewood
With the growing popularity and economic benefits of using wood as a partial or total energy source, harvesting and gathering fuelwood has become a way of life ...
Link Overview of Wood-Fired Boiler Use in West Virginia
The objective of this fact sheet is to provide an overview of the amount of wood residue used for fuel in wood-fired boilers and of changes in the use of wood ...
Link PRODUCING FIREWOOD FROM YOUR WOODLOT
Learn how you might manage a small woodlot for firewood production.
Link Safe Home Use of Firewood
Firewood is derived from many tree species, each with its own special characteristics. Firewood comes in many different shapes and sizes, and the convenience ...
Link Selecting Firewood
Whether you buy or gather your own firewood, you will likely have a choice from among the many species of trees grown in the state. Pound for pound all wood ...
Link Wood Fuel for Heating
The heating value of properly prepared fuel wood compares favorably with other fuels. When you can get fuel wood from a woodland through timber-stand ...
Link Wood-Fueled Home Heating Systems - Which is Best?
Which system is best? This is a simple question for which there is no simple answer. Many factors have to be considered and many alternatives weighed, and each ...
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