OK, I think I'd have to hide from you folks if the wood was free, but it wasn't. Friend of mine who is an excavating contractor, called me last night and asked if I was interested in buying some firewood. He is doing a land-clearing job and was selling 15-yard dump truck loads of "tree-length" (basically anywhere from 8' to 18' long) green wood, for $100 per load. It works out to about 2.5 to 3 cords of wood per load, so roughly $35- $40 per cord. I asked him what species, he said birch, maple, cherry and possibly some ash. After a brief argument between the voices in my head, I had to tell him no. As much as I would have loved a big pile of ready-to-cut wood at the end of my driveway, I still have 10 cords of beech and soft maple that need to come out of the woods, and another 10 cords worth of cherry and maple that need to come down behind my garage. If I had a few hundred extra bucks of "disposable income" I'd be all over it, that's for sure. The last time I took him up on his offer, I got ten cords of butternut, soft maple and black locust.
Oh no... Jon_E "I hereby call the FHC board members meeting to order...First order of business...De-merit points" It shouldn't be so bad since there was a slight cost of the wood involved, but still....
Oh my. Sounds like you're fully loaded already. Bummer. Tough to say no to nearly free wood, delivered even. Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
NO NO Yooper! first he a fellow Vermonter! Second it's 3 Xtra cords he got to buy (point there) when he got 10 in the woods that need his time (point in da woods is good stuff ) plus he got to get to it before the snow gets too deep or grass too high! so as long as he's ahead no demerit points.. if he not.. well Jon_E your on your own!
I'm only one year ahead. Got this winter's wood C/S/S in the shed and drying, but only have part of the wood for 2018-19. The rest is the beech and maple I mentioned. The yard trees are 2019-2020. I may reconsider. Having it dumped at the end of the driveway is easy pickings, even if it's not free.
John this is a good deal if you're ready to do so, I think that its a worthy buy if you let your trees stay for a bit longer and you get a good bit of selection from what you said. So your OWB can get through about 5 cord by Januaryish? Don't have a big house so its hard for me to fathom that much wood unless Im at my ocean shores lot that has a ship boiler made into a fire "pit" enclosed that is. Steel mill is more like it. Well hopefully you can reconsider since its a pickup that seems worthy to me. Even if I don't burn that much.
That has to be a difficult decision Jon but it is also easy to understand why you are hesitant. Good luck either way you go.
