Firewood Market

[buckeyefarmer]

Here firewood can only be advertised by the cord, can't use terms like face cord, etc, but it can be fraction of a cord, like 1/2 cord. When I used to burn wood, I would buy a dumptruck load unsplit, and split myself because it was well over $100/cord 18 yrs ago when I stopped burning. My dad still burns wood and splits it by hand, 88 yrs old. never had a splitter.

 

[dodge man]

I've never really bought or sold firewood, but I do burn maybe a 1/2 cord a year. I think firewood goes for around $50 a pick up load, but who knows how much that is. I burn just about anything, being red and white oak, hickory, elm, a little pine, locust. I have a power splitter so the stringy stuff doesn't bother me as much as it used to.

 

[DKCDKC]

Can you tell me more about donating to the Salvation Army?

Do you deliver the wood cut and split or make if available for pick-up?

I usually donate by simply taking a truck load to where they say it's needed. In the past I have also donated unsplit wood to a utility volunteer operation. They split it and deliver to a needy person in partnership with the SA. They usually pick it up from my place. The SA gives you a tax sheet you can use to record the donation. Being retired with a modest income, that's not particularly significant to me.

If you don't have a Salvation Army around, check with your local social services agency or the United Way. There are usually agencies that encounter people with no heat and wood stoves.

 

[jymbee]

If you don't have a Salvation Army around, check with your local social services agency or the United Way. There are usually agencies that encounter people with no heat and wood stoves.

Great idea-- I'll have to check into that. Thanks for the info.

 

[cqaigy2]

My dad still burns wood and splits it by hand, 88 yrs old. never had a splitter.

They don't make them like that anymore!

 

[ultrarunner]

If you don't have a Salvation Army around, check with your local social services agency or the United Way. There are usually agencies that encounter people with no heat and wood stoves.

Thank you... that is a very good idea.

I know in Olympia WA they have programs with volunteers to help out the elderly with free firewood.

For some reason it never occurred to me to check with the local Salvation Army here in Oakland California...

I will give them a call... just seems a waster for cut and split wood to go to waste.

 

[Gunny]

Some were talking about apple being such a hot burning wood. I don't have much apple and what I do have is saved for smoking turkeys, boston butts and pork loins!

Southern Indiana has a lot of hedge apple, they call it the zero degree wood over there, but man is that stuff hard! I believe that stuff will take the edge out of a saw chain as quick as concrete would. Most people cutting it wouldn't use chisel chain since it would roll the small cutting edge off that in a heartbeat. Everyone I knew that harvested hedge apple would never go out without at least four chains and a new file. They hated cutting it but they really liked the heat from it.

 

[MossRoad]

MossRoad; Do you think you could find it in your heart to forgive me, (LOL) I was enjoying my dinner to much (a dixie loaf sandwich, a bowl of burgoo, and a Ale-8) that I mistakenly said a rick is a half cord, it is indeed a 1/3. Sorry. I usually split with a doubled or single bit axe, mostly single bit in case I need to tap on it sledge. We would usually cut a little sassafras and split in down small to use as kindling. We did have sawmills nearby and could get slab wood to in the shop. Made a hot fire pretty fast but didn't last long, but cheap. Mostly burned coal till 45 years ago then it got hard to come by locally.

I burn sassafras and locust. The sas burns fast and is great kinkling or for only if I want a 4-5 hour fire. The locust burns 6-9 hours. It weighs almost twice as much as the sas. Also, the sas leaves a lot of ash compared to the locust.

 

[MossRoad]

Some were talking about apple being such a hot burning wood. I don't have much apple and what I do have is saved for smoking turkeys, boston butts and pork loins!

Southern Indiana has a lot of hedge apple, they call it the zero degree wood over there, but man is that stuff hard! I believe that stuff will take the edge out of a saw chain as quick as concrete would. Most people cutting it wouldn't use chisel chain since it would roll the small cutting edge off that in a heartbeat. Everyone I knew that harvested hedge apple would never go out without at least four chains and a new file. They hated cutting it but they really liked the heat from it.

Hedge apple is Osage Orange. Tough wood. Drops sticky green softballs on your car, too! :confused2:

 

[WayneB]

We have heated our home with wood for over 30 years and normally go through about 5 cord (full cords) each year and some years it can be a bit more. Past few years we have been buying grapple loads of wood and they average between 7 to 9 cords per load. We burn mostly oak, maple, and birch. Typical truck load will be around $800 and the normal cost for a cut, split cord of wood goes for between 200 and 250.