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January 11th, 2010, 11:33 PM #11
Re: Looking for a place to cut firewood
My dog "Ruger" is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money.
Pray for our troops....and a little extra for our snipers.
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January 12th, 2010, 10:11 AM #12
Re: Looking for a place to cut firewood
Yeah, this stuff ain't cheap anymore, with all the people who want to save money. I have a source though. I've been very good friends with the owner of a tree service for almost 17 years now. He sends me really nice wood, and I send him some artsy turnings from time to time. As a bonus, I often get huge trees, up to 48" in diameter, loaded onto my trailer and destined for my field. It is some extra work cutting them up, but I call that exercise.
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January 12th, 2010, 10:47 AM #13Grand Member
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Re: Looking for a place to cut firewood
I completely understand where you're coming from. I just usually don't tackle trees I'm not comfortable with. I'm also not going after the 4' diameter trees you need a crane for. There's a local guy with 3.5 cords of oak for $100/cord. Seems to be the best deal I can find, but it's not ready to burn right now and he won't have more wood in the future. $100/cord just seems pricy. I'd love to get logs. Saves the hassle in the woods and you get a great workout.
I like to cut in the winter/spring when it's not as hot to wear the extra pants that might save you from that slip with the saw. Cutting this time of year is usually limited to what is obviously dead or fallen trees since you don't have leaves on the living trees to look for.
Anyway, if I find any log load prices, I'll post it up. I left a few messages with local logging companies.
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January 12th, 2010, 11:06 AM #14
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January 12th, 2010, 12:24 PM #15Grand Member
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Re: Looking for a place to cut firewood
That's the plan. I'm probably going to split it with my father in law. I'll take the cheap-priced wood, but I need wood I can burn right now. I found a guy who will deliver a cord of mixed hardwoods at $125/cord. Doesn't seem to be a bad price either considering most ads I see are around $150+. Gebhard's wants $250/cord. They're nuts. But they're a tree service company and I think it's just a way to make some cash over the winter, but who knows.
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January 12th, 2010, 12:28 PM #16Grand Member
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Re: Looking for a place to cut firewood
As far as logs go, if I can get them cheaper than buying split wood by the cord, I don't mind if I have to wait for a year to burn it. If I can get cheap wood that I can split and get drying without having to even go look for it is fine with me as long as the price isn't too high.
I don't want to pay $125-$150/cord all the time, but I do need stuff right now and if I can get logs dropped that I can cut and split on my own that cuts that price by at least half, I'm ok with that. With my first kid on the way and there's always stuff to do around the house, plus getting some time to hunt/fish/ride the motorcycle, saving quite a few hours by getting logs dropped at my house is fine with me.
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January 12th, 2010, 04:42 PM #17Grand Member
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Re: Looking for a place to cut firewood
I talked to a guy today that has 7 large oak trees that were cut down this fall and are cut into sections. Sounds like they'll use equipment to load it onto a trailer, but it's pick up only. They're taking offers on it until the 19th. If it's as much wood as the guy makes it sound like, I wouldn't need all of it, but they're only selling to someone that will take it all.
Anyone interested in splitting the wood up?
I'll get more details and post later.
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January 17th, 2010, 04:17 PM #18Grand Member
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Re: Looking for a place to cut firewood
There is way more wood than I'll use in a number of years in this pile. Unless someone wants to go in on it together, I'm going to pass.
I had a cord delivered (and stacked, included in the price) on Saturday and I found a few cords of oak at really low price from a guy getting out of the business of selling firewood. Also got 4 trees to cut down not far from the house and I'd be surprised if I have less than 5 cords split and stacked drying out for next year.
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January 18th, 2010, 12:20 PM #19Grand Member
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Re: Looking for a place to cut firewood
Anyone know the policy of getting fallen trees out of state game lands? There's an area not too far from me that was recently clear cut and there are a number of decent sized trees just laying there and have been for a few months.
Game Commission is closed for the holiday today, I'll have to call tomorrow.
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