So I’m guessing I probably walked three miles around the perimeter of this lignified Stonehenge monolith as it went up, layer by layer. piece by piece. The center of the perimeter wall is full of wood. The circumference of the circle at the bottom is almost seven feet. So this is at least two cords of wood.
Each piece was selected from available stock—a three cord dump truck load of 18” long split tree trunks, some difficult to lift with TWO hands, and some of it quite gnarly. My rule had been to not burn pieces I could not pick up with ONE. Scratch that rule for now, and figure it out later. I might rent a splitter after all.
I’ll be adding more bark-side-out “shingles” to the top as I excavate them from under the remaining jumble of heavy splits, hoping these light, thin pieces don’t blow off in the winter winds to come.
Meanwhile, we have two-plus cords of dry wood under the shed roof and the HeatMaster is doing us a good job, and we are satisfied we made a good decision to go this way and not a propane furnace and new heat pump to get us through the winter, warm.