Keeping Up With The Kindlings

Our week of cold weather has had us furiously processing firewood bundles for the OWC (Oregon Woodland Cooperative) project. Seems like we have been going through the half-cord cribs at an amazing pace this year. It was the end of December when we had worked through the main supply last year.

For extra supply, we have begun to break into the Big Red Beast, the farm truck, that is loaded to the max with nearly five cord of cut, split, seasoned fir ready to bundle. We have six loaded cribs of split wood sitting in the barn across the river, but we are going to have to wait a week or two before their moisture content is low enough to consider them ready to sell. We try to have a minimum of three pallets of stacked bundles available to ship each week with a pallet each holding a minimum of 52 bundles.

This is our first year selling the Premium Bundle, that is made of hardwood like cherry, maple, oak or ash. The hardwood has been stacked in the corner of the show barn since hay season so it is ready to bundle also. We try to have at least one pallet full of hardwood available for delivery each week. Since the stores we supply are neighborhood sized, it is rare for a single delivery to purchase more than a pallet at a time of the Premium bundles. Having a pallet each week seems to be about right to make sure we have enough for demand.

The kindling bundles are a different matter. Seems like we have been on the short side of the kindling availability each week since the cold October we experienced and have been spending time in the barn across the river splitting seasoned chunks of firewood into small, one-inch kindling pieces. This order that is going out today has sixty bundles of kindling on it which is nearly one-third of the whole pickup load. Out of our supply of bundles for the next delivery, we only have two of kindling bundles left.

Looks like once this load is delivered, I will be back in the barn across the river spending quality time with my fun toy, the SuperSplit splitter that we purchased through the OWC when we started our firewood project. I may still have to fight Marilyn for my time on the splitter since she enjoys running the equipment as much as I do.

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