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If you haven’t already, you should read ‘Norwegian wood’ by Lars Mytting. It’s an excellent book about chopping, stacking, and drying wood.

Here’s the link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1419717987/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_36ASJN61XP5VVKNVZ8MK

I would suggest reading the book "Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way" to learn about the tried and tested techniques behind all of this.

Check this book out. It should give you so the info you need. Amazon link

There is a book all about this. Amazon link

Norwegian Wood

One of my favourite books of all time. Goes into the cathartic experience that stacking wood creates. And goes over the details like in your website.

Thank you for the explanation! I made a cynical assumption and I appreciate your patience with me. In the states I'm just used to people using token 'worldliness' to feel more sophisticated. Since Scandinavian culture/design is currently all the rage in the U.S. I got a nice irony boner out of this photo. My ignorance was fun while it lasted.

Though I have to admit I'm even worse than my fellow countrymen who just like Ikea. I'm currently reading this book and loving it http://www.amazon.com/Norwegian-Wood-Chopping-Stacking-Scandinavian/dp/1419717987/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457716639&sr=8-1&keywords=wood+stacking+book So the neat wood stack in this picture is my favorite part. I also really enjoyed 'Lillyhammer' on Netflix and am still bitter it was cancelled.

-I do realize that Finland has nothing to do with Ikea or that show.

-Though the only things that come to mind when I think of Finland is the famous quiet Stoicism of the people and your amazing resistance to the Russians in WWII. I'd love to visit someday and annoy the locals with my endless chatter.

You might like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1419717987

This one's endorsed by the coaching staff:

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These tips come from me as a scandinavian, there might be some difference in the UK, but see these as general tips.

Always buy wood in bulk, if you can buy unseasoned wood then do it. It's alot cheaper, but remember that wood should be handled and laying for drying before midsumer - ish early june. Wood is like insurance, its really freaking nice to have. Buy atleast for 2-3 years forward then you'll be able to get a good price. Here someone from the UK will have to step in, but i'd say never pay more than 500sek per cubic meter. What a decent price in the UK is, idk.

Here comes a rant on BTU, i've never understod it so i'll use Kw/h. But what i mean is count on how much you need, 1 kg of birch wood is ish 4kw/h (1364 btu). You'll easily be able to heat your house with wood, but man you need like 10-20 cubic meter. And thats alot of work to handle.

When it comes to burning remember to do it correctly, every burner has its pro's and cons and be sure to read the manual. You cant keep a burner going for over 400 celsuis for a longer time, it will destroy your burner and your chimney. Your relation with your burner is a deep one, you need to learn how it works.

Sweep your chimney, here we have rules that it needs to be done every second year. With that said you need to do it alot more often if you burn alot. We do it every year and we only go through 3-5 cubic meter every year.

If you want to deep dive and learn alot i'd recomend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Norwegian-Wood-Chopping-Stacking-Scandinavian/dp/1419717987/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1668171181&refinements=p_27%3ALars+Mytting&s=books&sr=1-1

It's 50% tips and 50% poetry regarding wood.

The sheds my father uses to dry and store firewood has 1" slits between the boards in the walls, and even some hatches on the walls without doors that can be opened to let even more air in.

He usually built the sheds with a front and back door, then stacked along the back wall first, then rows in front of that until it was filled up. This can take several years. Then he opened the back door and used the wood there first. That was he always used the oldest wood first.

Anyway...

Have you read this book?

https://www.amazon.com/Norwegian-Wood-Chopping-Stacking-Scandinavian/dp/1419717987/ref=sr_1_2

Boy, do I have the book for you.

Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way

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Well, stacking firewood is always worth a bit of an argument...
Someone even wrote a bestseller about it.
https://www.amazon.com/Norwegian-Wood-Chopping-Stacking-Scandinavian/dp/1419717987/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=norwegian+firewood&qid=1607596659&sr=8-1
and 'multe' (knotberry in England, Low bush Salmonberry in Alaska) is always worth a fistfight or two...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_chamaemorus
(It's generally legal to pick any berry or other edible plant found in the wild here, but not these. )
Oh, and dancing...
Way back in the 1700s I think it was, two men got into an argument, and one stabbed the other to death. The judge asked him why he did this, and he explained that the other man had called him a bad dancer, which he was definitely not! The judge told him to prove it, and he danced a Hallingdance. He was aquitted, so he must have been a good dancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2vaxE1Zsc
(In case you wonder what a Hallingdance looks like)
But mostly we stick to the petty stuff such as property lines and who has the finest car.

Here is an easy read that provides an introduction:(Amazon) Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way

Here is an easy read that provides an introduction:(Amazon) Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way

Those interested in this, may like this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Norwegian-Wood-Chopping-Stacking-Scandinavian/dp/1419717987

This book will really give you some great information, as well as inspire you to get out and be a humble axeman.

http://www.amazon.com/Norwegian-Wood-Chopping-Stacking-Scandinavian/dp/1419717987

I know his wood chopping book has sold many copies in Norway and Sweden. It's even translated into English: http://www.amazon.com/Norwegian-Wood-Chopping-Stacking-Scandinavian/dp/1419717987/