HARDWOOD FIREWOOD
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Perfect for
Tulikivi Fireplaces!
Customer Reviews
"Hi Paul. I am ready for the next load whenever it is convenient for you to
deliver.
I remain amazed at how efficiently the wood burns in the Tulikivi. Almost no ash
remains."
Roger customer since Dec 2005
"We burn a load every month in our Tulikivi. Keeps our power bill down to $250/month for our 4000 sq ft house, compared to many of our neighbors paying $900! Keep it coming!" Sandy customer since Nov 2005
Note: The source of the waste wood has closed down in
April 2010 - Montana Furniture Industries. I have a limited amount of wood
left and when that's gone, it's gone.
When was the last time you had a
hardwood fire
in your stove or fireplace?
Rediscover the amazing warmth of an oak fire while simultaneously removing
wood from the local waste stream.
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Kiln dried, easy to light, almost no ash
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Untreated smooth oak with minor amounts of Beachwood, Cherry & Alder
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Fully Reclaimed & Recycled, the most environmentally friendly source of heat next to the sun!
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Boosts burn temperature when mixed with un-split or not-so-dry fir & pine
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Easy to Handle - clean and smooth, no mess
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Concentrated Fuel – burning oak is more like burning charcoal briquettes than wood. Harwood takes up a third less storage space as pine/fir, which means less trips to the wood shed, smaller wood pile, and you fill your woodstove or fireplace about half as often and get more heat
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Less expensive than natural gas. Comparably priced to pine or fir firewood, but far superior - it's like drinking organic milk instead of regular. This is the most environmentally benign firewood possible, and it is also the highest grade and most convenient. The labor required to turn the tailings into stove length firewood is significant, all done by hand and a chop saw powered by solar power.
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Free local delivery, via vegetable-oil powered truck, 55-gal drums of oak stacked in place or transferred into any receptacle (heavy duty mattress bags available on request for dry storage - of coarse these are also on their way to the dump so use as many as you want!)
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Now taking orders by email or phone
2009
Prices We can put up to 9 drums on one load:
This wood can be burned straight, but it's also a great option for mixing in with other wood as starter or
temp boost fuel, and of course it's delivered with a diesel truck that runs on
used vegetable oil from restaurant deep fryers.
Recycled hardwood and petroleum-free delivery!
(One load of nine 55-gal drums is about 1/2 cord - see bottom of page
for in-depth cost analysis). Local delivery (within 5 miles of downtown Bozeman) included.
Additional miles at $1/mile - ie. 8 miles from downtown costs an extra $3 for
the 3 extra miles. Discounts for larger orders. Order two
or more full loads and you may keep the wood in my drums ($10/drum deposit).
3 drums $85
4 $110
5 $135
6 $155
7 $175
8 $200
9 $225
The straight pieces seen at top left of page are the form delivered in winter. They come unbundled in 55-gal drums and they are easier to stack and handle due to their uniformity in size. You get more wood than the oak cutoff form as I can tell the drums are heavier due to the closer packing of the wood, but the tradeoff is the wood will burn a bit faster. The feedback I've received so far is that the straight pieces are preferred over the cutoffs. Cutoffs are not always available.
For woodstove burning, I recommend burning in tight stoves only. Inefficient stoves will be unable to extract the heat from quick-burning wood, and send the heat up the chimney.
Burning this wood alone can be economical in a Tulikivi fireplace or newer wood stove - it is a premium product, the cleanest burning wood around, and is very labor intensive to process. My goal is to provide a superior, local fuel which would otherwise go to the dump to be turned into compost. See bottom of page for cord wood information.
For more info
email
or call Paul (406) 580-3223.
One Load of winter oak fresh from the furniture factory
Fully recycled OAK FIREWOOD at 27 million Btu's per cord makes the nicest fire. Compare that to pine or fir at roughly 2/3 the heat! Mix it in with your existing firewood to bolster burning of wet or lower quality wood. Because the oak is kiln dried it lights easily and burns clean with very little smoke and ash. And because it is a concentrated heat source it takes up less space in your wood shed and you burn less volume to make the same amount of heat, this means less trips to the wood pile and nice, small bundles of wood.
Burning Tips
Starting fires is easy with the wood jumbled up and crossed, with air in between
the pieces. Once the fire is going place wood into the fire in neat stacks
to slow down the burn rate. If you have other firewood that is not dry,
the two woods burn well together, as the oak boosts the heat level and balances out
the relatively wet wood.
Delivery & Storage
The oak blocks and straight pieces like you see at the top of this page are delivered in seven 55-gal drums, so you'll need some sort of
receptacle to hold your supply or at least a tarp (or I'll give you used heavy duty clear plastic mattress bags which go to the
dump anyway). Grocery stores will usually give you the large
cardboard bins that watermelons come in, which work great also. Two or
three large bins will hold a load of wood.
Local delivery (within 5 miles of downtown Bozeman) included.
Additional miles at $1/mile - ie. 8 miles from downtown costs an extra $3 for
the 3 extra miles at $1/mile. Discounts for double orders.
Payment Options
Check or Cash
Properties of firewood, from University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Published by Cooperative Extension, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources) at http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/forestry/g881.htm. Compare the properties of Oak to Fir and Pine. Creation of Coals indicates length of burn time and a fire's ability to burn overnight.
| Species | Weight (lbs./Cord) | Heat/ Cord (1,000,000 BTU'S) | Ease of Splitting | Smoke | Sparks | Coals | Fragrance | Overall Quality | |
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| Green | Dry | ||||||||
| Cottonwood | 4640 | 2272 | 15.8 | Easy | Medium | Few | Good | Slight | Fair |
| Douglas-Fir | 3319 | 2970 | 20.7 | Easy | High | Few | Fair | Slight | Good |
| Maple, Other | 4685 | 3680 | 25.5 | Easy | Low | Few | Excellent | Good | Excellent |
| Oak, Red | 4888 | 3528 | 24.6 | Medium | Low | Few | Excellent | Good | Excellent |
| Oak, White | 5573 | 4200 | 29.1 | Medium | Low | Few | Excellent | Good | Excellent |
| Pine, Ponderosa | 3600 | 2336 | 16.2 | Easy | Medium | Many | Fair | Good | Fair |
| Spruce | 2800 | 2240 | 15.5 | Easy | Medium | Many | Poor | Slight | Fair |
Cord Equivalent Comparison
Essentially, what this all means is that based on weight alone, oak is
50-70% more
dense than pine, a cord's worth of heat is contained in just 80-85 cubic feet of
oak, as compared to a 128 cubic foot cord of pine. Or, looking at it
from a Btu standpoint, I used 27 million Btu's per cord of oak (MBtu is the same as a
decatherm, which is how natural gas is measured). When 9 drums of oak is
stacked it is roughly a half cord, so that translates into $450/cord for oak. The price
of oak per MBtu is then about $13, and natural gas
is (Nov 08) $12/MBtu + $6.66/mo service charge), so the oak roughly equivalent
to the cost of natural gas before efficiency factors
of your fireplace or wood stove which typically are 60-75% efficient. Gas
forced air furnaces with metal vent pipes (10-20 years old) are 75-80% efficient. Price of pine is about $10.80 per MBtu
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For more info call Paul (406) 580-3223
or,
send us an
email
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