What would that normally sell for to the average buyer? I see wanted ads all the time down here in the southwest corner of the State, looking for truckloads of logs and they aren't easily found. I realize you're a bit far away but that would be a worthwhile investment for $100-120 per cord.
I'm curious to this myself. Around here they get $120-$125 a cord for log length. A lot of the loads I see are pecker poles, twisties, or huge azz logs. Seems the cream puff logs they keep or sell to the the guys with processors.
I get one cord loads delivered for 100$ in south west NH. It’s been a while since I got a grapple. But it was 100$ a cord that way as well. I like the 1 cord deliveries because I don’t have to climb and cut on top of an 8 cord log pile.
Very nice. Haven't the logs right in the yard is very nice. Just be careful pulling them down and always cut facing towards the pile so you can see the logs on the pile if the decide to break loose.
There is a kiln-dried operation in Westmoreland, NH that influences the price in this area - I think they are paying $125/cord for “processor” logs (straight, not too big, not too small). You might be able to get it for a little less if it was a short haul from the landing to your place.
Living large there! I would take that deal from your wife's employer every year, regardless of what else I cut, if I were you.
I ruptured a disc in my back a few years ago doing firewood, and ended up having surgery. I’m able to do quite a bit now, but lifting rounds onto the splitter gets done by one of the young guys from her company. I can fell, limb, skid, and cut to length, but the nerves in my legs and feet start acting up real fast if I try lifting. Fortunately I can nibble away at jobs here, and mix it up to keep from doing too much of any one type of motion.
She has been telling me I need to be doing this more often. But I love the felling/skidding part. We’ve got a mechanized harvest planned, like DaveGunter is doing, probably this Fall, and we’ll keep a lot of firewood from that, possibly rent a processor and work up 4 or 5 years worth for us and my parents.
That will be a busy winter for you! Making firewood is my mental health plan for cold weather. I hope the harvesting goes well. With all the Lidar you have done, there should be few surprises.
Really? I always find it interesting how different parts of the world, nonetheless, different parts of a country are with what each person does on their own property.
I live on an estate with lots of houses so I’d be surprised if that lorry could even reach the house . But I think all the neighbours already know me as the mad wood man so maybe I’d get away with it . Yes I think houses in United States are a bit more spaced out than the U.K.. I dream of having a little plot of land in the middle of nowhere one day
An excavation contractor here processing firewood was stopped down due to zoning, driven by a neighbor's complaint. We're on a farm, right on the edge of the village, and can get away with much more because the state of Vermont protects farms from town laws. I can run a firewood business using my own trees, but would run into the same regulations if I began buying loads to process and sell. But I'm pretty sure you could get and process this load anywhere in town for your own use, even in the village.
