Firewood in Nashville is mostly a comfort purchase rather than a heating necessity. One or two cords covers a typical winter of evening fires.
Air dried oak, ash, hickory, maple, elm and hackberry. Defines a rick on its own site as a 4 by 8 foot stack at a 16 inch cut, and a cord as three ricks, which is the disclosure a buyer should be asking for.
Publishes pickup prices only, at $70 for 10 cubic feet of loose mixed hardwood. Seasoned local oak, maple, hackberry and walnut, and it discloses that small amounts of cedar or pine may be included.
Every yard here was checked on the date shown, and what it says about delivery and prices is what its own site publishes. Some are based in surrounding towns rather than Nashville itself, which is normal: firewood is delivered on a radius of 20 to 30 miles, and the yards nearest the wood are rarely in the city centre. Note that yards quote in different units, some by the full cord and some by the face cord or rick, so get the cut length and the delivered total to your address before comparing two numbers.
Humidity works against you in Nashville. Wood that would reach burnable moisture in six months in a dry climate can take a full year here, and a stack pressed against a fence or covered to the ground will not get there at all.Split it, stack it single row off the ground, leave the sides open to the wind and cover the top only. Check it with a moisture meter on a freshly split face: under 20 percent is ready.
Once you have two or three numbers, put them through thefirewood cost calculator. It converts face cord and half cord quotes to a price per full cord and adjusts for species, which is the only way to tell whether the cheap quote is genuinely cheap or just smaller.
For what moves the number in the first place, and what counts as a fair quote, see the guide to theaverage cost of a cord of wood.
Most firewood in Nashville, TN is quoted per delivery, but one of the yards we have verified here publishes a price list, linked above. Use that as a reference point, then call two more yards within your delivery radius for a full cord delivered to your address. Ask what species and how long it has been split, and compare the quotes on the same basis with our cord calculator.
Tennessee restricts moving firewood out of thousand cankers disease and emerald ash borer quarantine counties.
Longer than the national rule of thumb. Humidity in this region slows air drying, so allow a full year for most hardwood split and stacked with airflow, and closer to two years for dense oak. A moisture meter reading under 20 percent is the only reliable test.
With a heating season of roughly 120 days, a household using wood as its main heat source in this climate typically burns one to two cords a winter. Occasional evening fires use far less.