How much is FIREWOOD

[Pelican49]

Those prices would make me want to install a propane heater here. Last year I lived alone and didn't need all that much wood. This year my daughter and 2 Grandkids live with me (different house). We just bought this place in April, so haven't experienced a winter here. It sure held the little air conditioning well, so stands to reason it should hold heat well too. We have 20 acres of woods, with lots of downed trees so we've been collecting firewood the last couple weeks. I did check with the guy I bought wood from last year in case we need more than we can scrounge. Last year it was $45 a rick, this year it's $65. That's a mighty big jump. We'd better get back out in those woods!

 

[SarahFair]

a rick?

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

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Propane's about $5 a gallon! Wood is by far the cheapest way to heat up here, even though it isn't cheap. Heaven help you if you have electric!

 

[speckledhen]

Firewood has skyrocketed from what it was a couple years ago. I can't believe they want over $200 for a cord of wood, even delivered and stacked. We paid $120 recently to a local farmer, the lowest we could find and we had to go get it in my DH's truck, load it ourselves and unload and stack it back home. It was good hardwood, though, no punky stuff.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Pine gunks up the chimney an is a fire-hazard. Leave it for campfires.

 

[Organics North]

So I live in heaven...
What is a cord to you all?
I row of firewood length 4 feet high by 8 foot long??? (Face cord)
OR
A stack 4 feet wide by 4 feet high by 8 foot long.???? (Loggers cord or pulp cord)


Any way in my part of the world, it is $60 for a face cord..

At the prices some of you are talking Propane or fossil fuel is much much cheaper..

Be well and stay warm...

(Heck I am lucky to sell hardwood at $60 a pulp cord) I forget all you in the south and east do not have 100" pulp mills any more so the dog big business can rake you over the coals...

Support your 100" mills if you still have them, that is the best thing you can do for folks who still log on the ground with a chainsaw.......!!!!
Harvesters and tree length logging is hard on the forest and hard on the self employed..

ON

 

[Rozzie]

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If it's advertised as a full cord, then 4x4x8. If it's advertised as face cord, then 4 feet high, 8 foot long, and you'd better ask what the length of the cut is.
If it isn't specified, then I'd ask before I bought to clarify the situation.

I've got 3 cords of stuff salted away for this winter. It came from a family member. Dead 4 years, cut down in the last year. Wonderfully dry and I have it all under cover.

Can't give a price paid because it was a gift.

I heat mostly with natural gas but use the wood in my fireplace in the living room. I just had a new damper installed and my chimney fixed, so I'm hoping to be able to heat the rest of the house a little less and use my fireplace more!

 

[PineappleMama]

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Since I'm one of those unknowing people... what's the difference between a full and a face?

Thought a cord of wood was 3'x3'x6'... do I at least have that part right?

We only get wood for the few times each year we have a fire, usually have plenty just from trimming our own/In Laws so this isn't vital info for me but never know when it might come in handy to know!

 

[fowler_chick]

i go through about through about 8 to 12 cords a year, but we cut and stack our own........

 

[SarahFair]

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Knowing how much time and work goes in it what would you say would be a fair selling price?