It is also possible to have a follower chop firewood for you, even if you don't have an axe.
After you have produced six units, you must activate the block again or leave the woodcutting session. Activating a wood chopping block will then cause you to produce firewood at a rate of two units every eight seconds, with a limit of six units per activation. To chop wood you must have a woodcutter's axe in your inventory (one can usually be found near the wood pile). You are paid five gold per unit of firewood. Alternatively, you can also chop the firewood first and then sell the firewood to a quest giver later. If you talk to one of the quest givers, they will offer to pay you for chopped firewood. Behind those, some crates are along the eastern wall.This is a radiant quest which you can receive from any of the following people. Outside the stables, along the road to Brandy-Mug Farm, is a trough containing a bottle of wine next to a pile of firewood.
The stables hold some barrels, four food sacks (two large and two normal), a wood chopping block (without a woodcutter's axe, which is to be found inside the house, on the shelves just above the strongbox), two horses (of which one is saddled), and bales of straw. Beneath the stairs connecting the house and stables is one bottle of Nord mead cooling in the snow, just out of the way, and some barrels behind. Between the table and the entrance are five food sacks on the ground (two large, two normal, and one small). There is a table outside the entrance door with a wine bottle on it. Two flights of stairs (one from the stony path leading to Windhelm, and one from the carriage) lead to a small stony yard in front of the house.