Pidgeonpost

I was always happy to have green timber 'in the round' - mostly oak, beech, and ash - as I always seemed to get more even if perhaps I didn't. I also used to quite enjoy splitting and stacking in the days when we had only a Franco Belge wood-burning boiler. Heating a stone cottage in a frost pocket took 9-10 typical loads a year. I'd usually had enough by the last load though. It was stacked for a year before use.

When we bought our first woodstove in the mid-70's we were interested to read that in the U.S. firewood was usually sold by the 'cord' . The people we bought from - usually one-man bands with a Tranny flat-bed - always looked puzzled when we mentioned that, and so a load was a load was a load as far as most were concerned. You either trusted them or you didn't.

I think if I was selling I'd be tempted to make available a couple of pics for customers, e.g. a ton of wet wood, a ton of dry wood, and a cubic metre of wood maybe stacked like the cord in the link above. These days we buy from a large sawmill that kilns its firewood and it's sold by cubic metre.