Price of a cord of firewood

[peterc38]

It's the middle of November and they are out of seasoned wood?

Yuppies typically buy all the seasoned wood in Oct & Nov very quickly

Most self respecting Mainers buy green wood and season on their property and stay a year or two ahead :thumbsup:

 

[8N Ren]

$100 per cord bucked, split and delivered, he'd probably help me stack it too (good neighbor friend).

 

[Soggy Bottom Outdoors]

It's not normally sold by the cord here, sold by the rick, which is usually a 1/3 of cord. $40 a rick, green mixed hardwood, oak & hickory, 3/4 split, 1/4 round or limb wood. Delivered, $120 a cord.

 

[dave1949]

I see green wood, cut-split-delivered for $175-$195/cord. People are asking $250 for seasoned, that's high for this area. It's not unusual for dealers to be low on, or out of seasoned wood at this time of year.

For most local firewood dealers I think, "seasoned" means the log was cut over one year ago, but it probably wasn't processed until shortly before being delivered to the customer. That's not really ready to burn seasoned IMO.

A couple of dealers offer kiln-dried firewood.

 

[MossRoad]

I have four rows, 50' long, 7' high and an average of 28" long. (boiler takes up to 52" logs but splitter wont handle that). When your dad lost that wood to rot, was it covered?

Yep. He had boards over the top to keep the rain off. But we are talking YEARS of it sitting in the woods. And by years, I mean most of my youth! :laughing: It was all oak, as I recall. But, his mistake I believe, was it was on the ground. The rot worked its way up from the earth. For me, I stack in a circle, 10' in diameter, almost 10' high. There's a 4x4 pole up the center that's 12' long buried 2' in the ground. I stack it to almost the top of the pole. As it dries, it shrinks down about a foot and a half. I have a tarp with a hole in the center over the post. It only overlaps by a foot or so. That way, the rain stays off, but the sides remain open for air drying. I've got pictures of it here on TBN somewhere. I'll try to find them.

 

[oosik]

Around here its $180-$200 for at true chord, delivered & stacked. Around my area the wood will be Ponderosa Pine, further north it would be tamarack. I've heated with firewood, then pellets & now electric heat. Electric wall heaters are very inefficient but electricity is so cheap in our area that it easily beats out firewood or pellets. Ha,ha and its a lot easier to just turn the dial.

 

[Redneck in training]

Up here in Michigan it goes for about $150 to $225 for three face cord [ 4'X8'X16" each ], which would be equiv to one full cord of wood.. usually not stacked, and sometimes not delivered. There was a local guy down the road who was buying big 20 full cord loads and wacking it up.. he was the one that would deliver three of the face cord locally for $50 each. But, for the life of me, I don't know how you can do that much work for so little money......

People pay for a health club. He gets his excersise and gets paid for it.

 

[forgeblast]

Wyoming County Press Examiner | wcexaminer.com | Serving Tunkhannock, Pa. and surrounding communities » County firewood program helps criminal offenders
is an article about a local place that sells it for $135. A program run by the Wyoming County Juvenile Probation Department has enabled people to work off part of their sentences while benefitting the community, without costing the county anything.

 

[Midniteoyl]

A cord goes for 180to 225 dumped in NE Ohio

Ditto here.. Though I 'know a guy' that lets me have it @$90 a cord, I pick up.

 

[tcreeley]

Seasoned wood around here means it was cut the past winter or spring and sat through the summer. It sizzles. A while back I got ahead on my wood and only burn what was cut 2 winters ago. You get much more heat out of it, easier to light, less creosote, no sizzle! It is also lighter to carry in! We used to burn 4 cords, but with the milder winters, we burn three now.