Medford, New Jersey · Burlington, Camden & Gloucester counties and surrounding South Jersey

We don't sell
the wood.
We test it.

Most firewood sold around here is greener than the seller admits, and nobody checks. That's the entire job. We meter other people's stacks, publish what we find against their name, and turn up unannounced to do it again.

You buy from the seller, at the seller's price. We're not in the middle of it and we don't want to be — a referee who sells tickets isn't a referee.

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<20%The highest reading in the stack, not the average
No markupYou pay the seller. We're paid by them, not you
Their numberPublished next to their name. Call them yourself
19 sellersEvery one we could find across three counties

Why we're not a firewood seller

You can't referee
a game you're playing.

We used to plan on selling wood too. We dropped it, and the reason is the whole reason this works.

Ask a seller to let a competitor onto their yard with a meter, unannounced, and publish whatever he finds. Nobody sane says yes. The moment we stopped selling firewood, that objection disappeared — and so did every reason to shade a reading in our own favor.

The seasoning takes eighteen months; the checking takes twenty minutes. We do the checking. The seller sells the wood and pays us a flat fee for the introduction. Nobody in this arrangement makes more money when your cord costs more.

So what's on the site today?

A phone book with the right questions attached, and we'd rather say that than oversell it. Nineteen sellers with their own numbers, what a cord should cost, and the four things to ask before you agree to anything.

No moisture readings yet — not one, ours or theirs. Every cell in that column is empty. Filling it means a seller putting a number in writing, and nobody has. The day one does, this stops being a phone book.

  • Every number in one place, with no lead form in front of it
  • The measuring and delivery-ticket rules NJ already gives you
  • Somebody to tell when a listing is wrong, who fixes it that day
  • Readings, prices and reviews — none yet, and we say so on the page rather than leaving you to work it out
The four questions to ask

What we actually do

Two services and a list

You need a cord, you have a heap of rounds in the yard from a tree that came down, or you want the gear that makes lighting it easy. That's all of it.

01

The list, and what to ask

Every firewood seller in three counties we could find, with their own phone number. You call them, you buy from them, you pay their price — we never touch the money and we don't take a cut of it. What we add is the questions worth asking and, as sellers sign up, the moisture numbers behind the answers.

We don't quote a price, because we have nothing to sell you and no seller has authorized us to speak for them. What we publish is what sellers put on their own sites, with a link and a date. What a cord goes for →

See who's on the list
02

Mobile log splitting

Tree came down and the service left you a stack of rounds? We tow the splitter to your property and turn them into burnable firewood. You keep the wood. No hauling, no dump fee. This one we do ourselves.

$185 / first cord on site

How it works
03

Fire kits, coming

The Caveman Pack and the four things worth keeping in a box by the stove — ferro rod, fatwood, wax starters, hearth gloves. Packed by us, shipped anywhere in the lower 48 — the one part of this that has nothing to do with who's selling wood this week.

Not shipping yet. The kits are designed and priced, and they get packed when enough people say they'd buy one. Put your name down and you'll get one message when they ship — no deposit, no card.

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Why the meter matters

“Seasoned” is a word.
20% is a number.

The EPA puts it in one sentence: “Wood burns best at a moisture content of less than 20 percent,” and season it “for at least six months.” That is the whole standard. It is a ceiling, not a range, and it is the number on this site because it's the number the people who study this settled on.

“Seasoned” is not a regulated term. Nobody has to test anything to print it on a sign. When the University of Tennessee actually metered bagged firewood sold as seasoned, the average came back around 66% moisture and not one sample met the standard. That gap is the entire reason this business exists.

Wet wood is not just a slow fire. It's the tar that coats your flue, the glass that never stays clear, and roughly a third of the heat you paid for going up the chimney as steam.

So here's exactly what we'll promise, and what we won't. Nobody tests every piece, and anyone who says they do is guessing. We test the stack: six pieces minimum from different depths, split open, read on the fresh inside face. The highest reading gets published, with the date. Not the average — an average hides the wet piece.

What we won't promise is your particular load. We never touched it. What we can eventually tell you is what a seller committed to in writing, what their own meter said this week, what ours said when we last walked their yard, and what the last twenty buyers reported. Right now we can tell you none of those things about anybody, because nobody has signed up yet — and a site that pretended otherwise would be doing the exact thing it was built to stop.

We'd rather hold somebody to a promise than make one we can't personally keep.

How seasoning actually works
6–7 mo
Cherry, split and stacked, to reach burnable
12+ mo
Red oak. Usually two summers. No shortcuts
2×
How much faster split wood dries vs. rounds
~80%
Fresh-cut red oak, oven-dry scale — what a meter reads

Drying figures from University of Maryland Extension FS-1074 and EPA Burn Wise. Mid-Atlantic climate, split and top-covered. Bagged-firewood moisture survey: University of Tennessee Extension W179.

Why we don't advertise a lower number

We could say 15% and sell more wood. We won't. Air-dried wood in this climate settles around 12–14% and a wet week puts the outer inch back up — so a 15% promise is one October rain away from being a lie. Under 20% is a number we can hold on the worst piece in the stack, in the worst week of the year. Kiln-dried wood reads lower; where a supplier sells it, the reading we publish is the reading we took.

Getting a cord

Call them yourself.
Ask them these four things.

There is no lead form here and no “someone will contact you.” You take the number off the list and you dial it. What we can give you is the four questions that separate a real operation from a guy with a truck — and they work on a seller who has never heard of us.

1

“What does it meter?”

Not “is it seasoned.” A number with a date behind it is a different kind of answer, and how they handle the question tells you more than the number.

2

“Is that a full cord?”

128 cubic feet, stacked. Face cords, racks and truckloads are prohibited terms in New Jersey — in the ad as much as at the sale.

3

“Do I get a ticket?”

The state already requires one with their name, the quantity and the price on it. Plenty of sellers don't provide one, and asking is the fastest tell there is.

4

“What if it doesn't burn?”

Ask before you pay, while you still have leverage. All four, with what a good answer sounds like →

The list

Every firewood seller
we can find.

Not just the ones who signed. The directory lists everybody we know of across Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties and the towns around them — name, town, phone, what they advertise — because when you need wood in January you need a phone number, and a list with four names on it is no use to you.

There are two ways a seller can add to their row, and nobody has taken either yet. Sign the Guarantee and their own dated readings go up with a published promise to make a bad load right. Go further and we walk their yard unannounced and put our number next to theirs. Until then every row is a name and a phone number, and the moisture column stays empty.

Browse suppliers The two ways up
Free, and you don't have to buy anything from anyone: drop a pin on the exact spot you want the wood and text it to your seller — ours or anybody's. Two tons gets tipped out in forty seconds and stays where it lands.

Selling firewood? Three rungs

  • Listed. No charge today, no agreement. We found you, we wrote down your number, and you can be off it by tonight
  • Guaranteed. You meter your own stacks and publish the number, and you make a load right within seven days if it misses. Nobody comes to your yard
  • Verified. That, plus you sign a standing right for us to turn up unannounced with a meter and publish whatever we find
  • Not a badge you can buy. The top rung costs more because the audit costs us a day — and you can fail it

All three are free for the 2026–27 season, and Guarantee No. 001 is still open. Side by side →

Burlington County & surrounding

Cold snap is coming.
Order before everyone else does.

Wood ordered in August burns better in January than wood ordered in January — and in February the whole county runs short at once.

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