Quality Firewood Available While Mulch Express USA is best known for our quality mulch products, we are increasingly becoming well known for our firewood as well. Our firewood consists of a mix of hardwoods that are indigenous to the tri state areas.

	Retail Customers
	We offer face-cord /cord quantities of mixed hardwood firewood from our lot for customer delivery. A face cord measures 4 feet high by 8 feet long and will generally fill a regular size pickup to the top of a standard size bed when thrown in loosely. Our firewood is cut to 18" lengths (shorter pieces may be mixed in) and is dry-seasoned on our lot. Please call for further information.
	Bulk shipments
	We will ship to deliver multi-cord quantities. This will mainly consist of mixed hardwoods. Shipment quantity will depend on state weight limitations and trailer size.

About our firewood

We season our wood in 20 foot log lengths for at least a year. We then cut and split the wood a few months before you receive it. It sits and further seasons in a large pile. Because the wood is recently split and we may be pulling from the center of the pile that day we recommend the following:

	Stack the wood in a sunny, dry location as soon as possible, stacked wood dries much faster than piled wood
	From the time you stack the wood allow 1 to 4 weeks for the wood to completely dry out and be ready to burn. Although, a lot of the wood is usually ready to burn upon delivery. It really depends on the species of wood.
	Put a tarp on the top quarter of the wood only. Do not cover the wood completely, to allow for air flow.
	During the winter months, bring the wood indoors one week prior to burning.

Seasoning wood

We sell only clean local hardwoods. Ash, Oak, Maple, Locust, Cherry, Walnut, Beech, Birch and Hickory are the most common. No soft woods such as pine, tulip or sumac, unless upon request. We do not sell wood with rot or insect damage.

Types of wood

A standard cord is 128 cubic feet (Figure 1). This may be 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet or 4 feet by 2 feet by 16 feet or any other combination yielding 128 cubic feet.

Actual volume of solid wood in a cord varies from 65 cubic feet for small, crooked sticks, increasing with the size and straightness of the sticks up to about 90 cubic feet.

Average for this region is about 80 cubic feet. The shrinkage in volume between a cord of green wood and a cord of seasoned wood is about 8 percent.

Another common measure used in selling firewood is the "face cord" (4 feet by 8 feet by 24 inches) (Figure 2) For 24" firewood this would be 2 rows deep. However, depending on your supplier, the length may vary from 16 inches to 24 inches. If the wood is 16" long 1 cord would consist of 3 rows of 16" wood stacked 4' deep X 8' long. Therefore if you were kneeling down looking at the first row of wood (or the face of the pile) that first row is the "face" cord: 4 x 4 x 16".

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Table 2
Equivalent heat of other fuels compared to a cord of air-dried wood (80 cubic feet of solid wood content at 20-percent moisture) based on a heating-unit efficiency of 100 percent.

Wood1	Available Heat per cord in million BTU	No. 2 Fuel oil2	Anthracite3 coal	Natural4 gas	LP5 gas	Electric6 heat
		Gallons needed to equal cord	Tons needed to equal cord	100 cubic feet needed to equal cord	Gallons needed to equal cord	Kilowatt hrs. needed to equal cord
Ash	23.6	168.6	0.98	236	259.3	6,941
Basswood	14.7	105.0	0.61	147	161.5	4,324
Box Elder	17.5	125.0	0.73	175	192.3	5,147
Cottonwood	16.1	115.0	0.67	161	176.9	4,735
Elm	20.1	143.6	0.84	201	220.9	5,912
Elm (red)	21.4	152.9	0.89	214	235.2	6,294
Hackberry	21.6	154.3	0.90	216	237.4	6,353
Hickory (shagbark)	29.1	207.9	1.21	291	319.8	8,559
Locust (black)	28.1	200.7	1.17	281	308.8	8,265
Maple (silver)	20.8	148.6	0.87	208	228.6	6,118
Maple (sugar)	25.0	178.6	1.04	250	274.7	7,353
Oak (red)	25.3	180.7	1.05	253	278.0	7,441
Oak (white)	27.0	192.9	1.13	270	296.7	7,941
Osage orange	30.7	219.3	1.28	307	337.4	9,029
Pine (shortleaf)	19.0	135.7	0.79	190	208.8	5,588
Red Cedar	18.9	135.0	0.79	189	207.7	5,559
Sycamore	20.7	147.9	0.86	207	227.5	6,088
Walnut (black)	21.8	155.7	0.91	218	239.6	6,412

1. Wood available heat at 20 percent moisture 7,000 Btu per pound (128 cubic feet with 80 cubic feet wood volume).
2. No. 2 fuel oil available heat 140,000 Btu per gallon.
3. Anthracite coal available heat 12,000 Btu per pound.
4. Natural gas available heat 1,000 Btu per cubic foot.
5. LP gas available heat 91,000 Btu per gallon.
6. Electricity available heat 3,400 Btu per kilowatt hour.