Racking the Cords

Summary


If you've been happy buying firewood in those portable, plastic- wrapped bundles from the grocery store because a few sticks will do for the season, then don't call The Woodshed.

There, firewood is mass produced in a mill for customers who heat primarily or partially with wood. To achieve industrial-scale production, the staff uses a 48-inch cut off saw, ram and splitter. An order fills a dump truck and costs hundreds of dollars.

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Racking the Cords

Wood is plentiful in Appalachia, owner James Lucas said.

"There's just a shortage of fools like us to mess with it," he quipped.

Here, a few miles outside Christiansburg, is a businesses that seems a throwback to an earlier time. I...

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