firewood prices up, demand up, supplies running low or out,

Firewood prices up, dealers see increase in demand as winter nears
Look at what they are calling seasoned firewood.

 

kiln dried is ready.. Seasoned means 1 season split as in 3 months.. or needs many more seasons to be dry.. I used to do this split in spring and burn in fall.

 

Yep, that's the way it was done. Common wisdom was Winter cut, spring split & burn next Fall/Winter. If you did that you were considered an ambitious burner cause you didn't wait till Fall to cut this winter's wood.

 

Must mean it’s gonna be a long , cold , tough
Winter.

Makes us Hoarders just Smile!

 

Farmers Almanac is calling for a snowy cold winter...so naturally it will be dry and warm. That periodical never gets it right!

I have always found that firewood is based upon the following year. After lasts years 3 weeks of sub-zero cold, heat pumps proved they are not enough, firewood dealers stock depleted, and so people are buying more firewood.

But the same sources that cited last year there was a "shortage" never saw the firewood dealers I saw, because their yards were teeming with "dry" firewood.

 

I had a logger cut off me one time and said he needed some firewood for his daughter before it was too close to winter to "dry". It was September, and yes she planned on burning it that winter.

Myself, I like to cut in the winter for next winters firewood, but right now I got about a 30 year plan going.

 

If a news outlet headline reported "everything is fine, stock piles are up" nobody would read the story.

Doom and gloom stories are better for business...just watch the weather channel...
They are using words like biblical and record, worst in history, to keep people glued to their channel.

 

Just turned on Weather Bug...

apparently everything is extreme at this outlet...

 

End of the world again today. Glad I had breakfast!

 

You are so correct...

 

I have bought some firewood from AW Allen years back. Good people. There prices are high in my opinion but you do get a full cord . My brother is in the logging business and told me that pulp prices are up also so that's where most of his logs are going also. I got 8 cord of green oak and paid $200 a cord. I should have two cord of green ash coming for 150 a cord if it works out. I didn't have money to get wood a head so Im stuck with green this winter. I also agree with what you guys are saying and don't believe everything I hear,

 

Always extreme forecast out there
severe winter ,
wet & flood in spring,
Hot summer,
Stormy fall.

Now with 24/7 news & weather
Drama sells,
Ratings = $$

Headlines:
“Firewood Hoarder’s storing massive amounts of firewood is a sign of severe winter”
We hope

 

The worst thing is, I have about 30 cord sitting where people can see it...

One guy has asked (3) times if he can get it for firewood. Pretty bold considering his brother in law is the one that logged it, left the wood, and then never paid me for the 75 truck loads of wood he cut. Yeah sure, I'll just give it to you free. (You have to admit, that is one big hiney wipe there).

Many have asked to buy it, but the worst guy was an old drunk that no one likes. He stops in and makes small talk, then says, "I'd like to buy that firewood off you " I say, "Well sorry, it is not for sale". So then he gets all disgusted and says, "Well then I did not want it anyway", and off he goes.

I am not a big fan of Ash, but it burns decent right off the stump in a pinch.

 

What’s the problem with ash ?

 

Hope you can get this taken care of.

 

Its not Beech.

 

Oh
Well then
Beech isn’t shagbark hickory

 

There is more to it than that honestly. I cannot fault a man for what his brother-in-law does. Heck I have never touched drugs whatsoever, but my brother-in-law died of a drug overdose, so I understand individuality, and not assuming someone is like another of the same family. But my brother works at the same plant as this guy, and on the first day on the job he asked if my brother was the same -ahole as the rest of his family".

That was pretty harsh considering he was THE ONLY guy I allowed to hunt on my property for years. They are not my deer granted; and I have nothing against hunting or hunters, but I thought giving him exclusive rights to hundreds of private hunting ground was pretty generous. Then to find out he thinks I am an "ahole"...then asks for free firewood his brother-in-law cut...and ripped me off of $11,000, was all too much.