 Wood consumption
Here are some rough numbers you can use to do a SWAG calculation.
A cord is roughly 4400 lbs, and your oven should burn about 15 lbs per hour. You should be able to run the math and get an estimate.
You can definitely stack wood in the oven after an evening of cooking to dry it out for the next day's baking. It does help. I'm not sure how far it will go to drying out green wood. That sounds like a stretch. It will help a little, but not that much.
I experimented burning pine and fir, just to see what it would do, and it wasn't good. Sappy, smoky and there aren't many BTUs in the light woods. If felt as if they were taking out as much heat for combustion as they were putting back in.
We're lucky. I keep pruning trees and have a good source at our house in Healdsburg (though that will eventually run out).
James |