Not free firewood....but close

[Zerk]

Around here sold seasoned and split, plus I think some logs. Maybe people with outdoor boilers, or maybe cheaper.

If I had big stuff, could try just leaving by road. You see that in town when people cut down trees.

Rick is close to face cord? 1/3 of cord, crudely sold as pickup load too. There was thread couple years ago, and some states stick there noise into it. Some people want the government to hold there hand and dictate what size they are allowed to buy.

Cracked me up guy talked about the guy who properly measured, charged more, and somehow they felt better about that.

 

[two_bit_score]

Raise the price. Too cheap scares people off.

Agreed. People look at a low price as too good to be true sometimes. And they just might not know what a rick is either.

 

[turnkey4099]

$120/cord for Willow? Back in the days when we burned wood, I wouldn't take Willow even it was free. You're really doing good to sell it for that price. Of course, like they say: "location, location".

Yep, location! Out here there are no hardwoods like oak except a very rare town take-out. Fir/tamarack are the prefered and it goes 240-300/cord. Willow can be had withing a few miles of anyone's place and farmers are happy to see it go. I heated my house with it for over 30 years until the Locust Borer moved in and killed a lot of black locust. I harvested every stick of that I couild get permission to for over 30 miles radius. Still have around 70 cord in my stash.

 

[turnkey4099]

I have been cutting and splitting firewood my whole life and never heard of a "rick". What is a 'rick" supposed to be?

Nevermind, I googled it.. Looks like one row out of a cord..

Actually,there is no 'legal' description. A rick is any pile of the same time stuff one stick wide and as high and long as one wants to make it. Rick is another of those terms dreamed up to scam buyers of wood just like "face cord", "load", "pile",etc.

 

[turnkey4099]

Around here sold seasoned and split, plus I think some logs. Maybe people with outdoor boilers, or maybe cheaper.

If I had big stuff, could try just leaving by road. You see that in town when people cut down trees.

Rick is close to face cord? 1/3 of cord, crudely sold as pickup load too. There was thread couple years ago, and some states stick there noise into it. Some people want the government to hold there hand and dictate what size they are allowed to buy.

Cracked me up guy talked about the guy who properly measured, charged more, and somehow they felt better about that.

Requiring wood to be sold by the cord or fraction thereof is no more 'holding hands' than requiring gas by sold by the gallon, milk by quart or gallon, butter by the pound, etc. etc. Regulation of some type is required in any type of market world wide.

 

[Soggy Bottom Outdoors]

Looks like I'll be adding more to the "almost free" woodpile. The storms of yesterday "root waded" a black cherry and a 12-14 inch sassafras. The last 10-12 feet got my 3 year old woven wire fence. The firewood subject appears to be largely a regional/cultural thing. Much like the species of trees used.

 

[Zerk]

Requiring wood to be sold by the cord or fraction thereof is no more 'holding hands' than requiring gas by sold by the gallon, milk by quart or gallon, butter by the pound, etc. etc. Regulation of some type is required in any type of market world wide.

I can look at a pile of wood and decide if I want to buy it for the set price. I can also decide if I want to shop at a guy who stacks it in rows . I don't need the government sticking its nose in it.

I can go to a restaraunt and buy glass of milk, or I can go to store to buy it buy the gallon. But that is a bigger business. I don't need the guy who sells firewood from his house to have that kind of government intervention. It is the choice between the buyer and seller. Not saying it he can't have it rows. But if he wants to put a pile in the front yard with a price tag, it is my call. I don't need my hand held.

 

[MossRoad]

And that's the way that it was, and we LIKED it!

 

[TnAndy]

I can go to a restaraunt and buy glass of milk, or I can go to store to buy it buy the gallon.

How do you know it's a gallon ? Or in the case of gasoline, you've pumped it in your tank, and you're willing to trust that the pump measures it correctly ? Or would you like a guy from the State to drop in from time to time with a measured can and pump some gas in it. ?

Most wood is delivered, not a pile in somebody's yard. The purpose of weights and measures laws are to keep sellers honest to attempt to prevent cheating buyers. I don't think the law would prevent you from sticking a sign on a pile of wood for a dollar amount, as long as you don't misrepresent the volume of the wood.

For example: If I sell green beans at the local farmer's market, and I sell them by the pound, I have to have a State certified scale to be able to charge 'so much per pound'.

BUT I can dump them in a container of any kind, put a price on the container/bag/etc (not representing it as a bushel or any fraction of a bushel), and sell them all day long.....which is exactly what most small producers do. Buyer decides if that container is worth the price I put on it.

 

[Deere Dude]

Still have around 70 cord in my stash.

Are those full cords, ric or face? That is a lot of wood either way. I have a big dry pile, split and stacked on concrete under a roof and sprayed with insecticide for ants etc..

The question is, will old wood rot in my case if not used in 5-10 years. It seems I take from 1 side for a year or two then switch sides the next year. I replenish with split wood and never seem to get to the middle of the pile.