Fire wood

[billbill1]

In the Topeka Capital Journal, seasoned wood is $120 per cord with no delivery. The other ad says $170 per cord, delivered and stacked.

Not trying to hijack the thread, but has anyone seen a pallet or rack or something that works well for storing firewood?

Alan I got this idea from TBN, I think it was AndyM, not sure. Works good for me.

 

[irwin]

Full cord $125.00 to $175.00, several ads are for an unknown amount pick-it-yourself $100.00. I've got several acres of oak, and my costs are sore muscles, and an aching back (plus fuel for chainsaws and the splitter).


Too bad about polution levels and wood burning, but I hate to give any more money to the oil barons than I absolutely must. I also try to keep my burning as clean as possible.

 

[WTA]

Around here a half cord is running 250 bucks because we have just enough rich people around who would pay it. There aren't many trees in West Texas. That is not even a delivered price!

We are lucky enough to live on a farm with a small orchard and we had two big locust trees invaded by carpenter ants and killed. The neiboring cotton farms helped them along too with the defoliant last year. I just cut them trees up though and that should be enough to get us through about 2 or 3 months using the propane furnaces as backup set down around 55. We have two furnaces that burn through over 500 gallons a month if we keep them on 70. Needless to say, we don't use them much.

We're planning several trips to Arkansas this year to another farm in the family and I'm bringing back at least a truckload of wood every time we go. I will not pay what they are asking around here.

As for California and their burning ban, They've tried that before. I used to be stationed there and loved that state but now you couldn't even pay me to take vacation there. They are off their rocker. I don't know how you normal people can tolerate all that stupidity!

 

[weldingisfun]

As for California and their burning ban, They've tried that before. I used to be stationed there and loved that state but now you couldn't even pay me to take vacation there. They are off their rocker. I don't know how you normal people can tolerate all that stupidity!

WTA, you have just made the understatement of the year. Those folks out there are certifiable.

 

[WTA]

They have gotten so bad about saying everything causes cancer that it makes me sick. Now this global warming fad of theirs is just out of hand. My horses emit more green house gasses than most cars do. I wonder when I will have to sew a catalytic converter to their tails?


The price of firewood I really can understand. Everything is going up. I blame it on the price of gas myself. Some people just charge high because they can but it's mostly the costs associated with cutting it. We don't always have to buy at those prices though. I can get mine for free when I have time and I will. I still have to pay for a lot of diesel to do it though. In a couple more years we will be up on our old homestead though and will be using all the firewood we want. I'm building a log cabin just like the ones my family did over a hundred years ago and going with all wood heat, wood cook stove, as little electricity as I can manage and I really do hope the smoke from my chimneys blows to the North West! Right into California. It will never be enough to compete with all their wildfires though that could have been prevented if they were just willing to harm a few 3 eared tree frogs or whatever the endangered species of the day was.

 

[txdon]

In a couple more years we will be up on our old homestead though and will be using all the firewood we want. I'm building a log cabin just like the ones my family did over a hundred years ago and going with all wood heat, wood cook stove, as little electricity as I can manage.....

Ahhh It's good to see another manly man in Rural Living! There's nothing better than waking up at day break, (shivering - but manly) cleaning out the ashes from wood burning stove the night before, running out to the lean-to in the 30ish rain and loading the wood you cut from your property and tending it till it get the room warm, and then (finally) the wife wakes up and says this is nice in here, as you smile your big manly smile.

 

[WTA]

I love living like that. I grew up on that old farm and we never even had running water. Only one or two light bulbs and a outlet for the refrigerator.
It's the only way to live as far as I am concerned! Who needs TV and the internet? The older I get the more time I spend trying to find any good in it. I'd rather be riding my horse and working in the field.

 

[randy41]

its been many years since i've had to buy firewood....those prices are outrageous. if I had to pay for it I would find a different way to heat.

 

[dmccarty]

LOL, I thought burning firewood was supposed to be neutral regarding The Evil Global Warming...

When I first saw the article regarding CA wanting to ban fireplaces I figured it was for San Francisco and was for air quality reasons. Then I saw it covered a good part of the state and was to stop Global Warming... What twits. The trees I burn have been killed by Mother Nature. They are going to rot and release CO2. So I can clean and cut up the trees to lower the fire hazard around the place and warm my house or I could use the heat pump. If I had to use the heat pump the power would be supplied by the Evil Nuke plant to my east or by a Evil CO2 producing plant running on fossil fuels...

As a summer job I used to split firewood a couple decades ago in Louisville Ky. The number that comes to mind is that it was $65 a cord, 4x4x8, delivered. We did sell by the rick as FarmWithJunk mentioned. Its hard to believe the price on firewood is not gone up much.

I picked up a brochure on a corn/pellet stove at the JD dealer yesterday. It has a chart of fuel costs and firewood is $150 per cord.

We have the house at 81 because of the wood stove.

TXDon, A REAL man gets up in the middle of the night to keep the fire going so the house stays warm and cozy all night long. That way when She Who Must Be Obeyed gets up in the middle of the night She is warm.

Later,
Dan

 

[ToadHill]

I heard an interesting lecture by a professor at Cornell. He was speaking about burning wood for heat. His comment was that wood is the only carbon neutral heat used today. As it grows. the tree absorbs carbon dioxide and gives off Oxygen. When the wood is burned it gives off the carbon dioxide but no more that it absorbed while it grew. Thus it is carbon neutral.