Its price gouging. I say he sells it i have no idea how seasoned it is. Business that long thats fine and all but when the average doug fir cord goes for 150-250 a cord here, this company is advertising at 3x's that. The market here is high but my fear is that prices are just driven up by default and the professional seller to the commonman theres a big disparity but the wood is all the same. I would just charge a middle amound between the two since Im actually seasoning it on my property. This isnt a profitting thing for me at all. But for pricing, makes you wonder his overhead huh? You be the judge.
It will look pretty much like that except the cover for most of the summer anyways. Now I think I wanna find tin roofing but it gets snatched up fast and then sometimes its bought by the ton, all or nothing.
If you can find a roofing company or demolition company you might be able to find some used rubber or tin roofing.
A little bit of an update to this... you may have seen the posting where I thanked my dad for bringing the trailer full of the BL and dropping it off. Well I did a final crack of the whip on that pile and got it split and stacked today. I think we're looking at just roughly a cord give or take. I'm actually burning the bark and splitter garbage from this and it burns like a son of a gun Hot! Barely any smoke once it was going. I can't even sit down in my adirondack chairs. You'll also notice its not in the same place anymore. Due to that recent grab of the locust, I just decided to up and move everything to the back. It wasn't a large move but still worthy of the idea. Just seeing how this supersedes the Oak I got in terms of size of the haul, Im gonna give it its due and place the wood shed over this. No telling when that will be built but would be nice to have a place to stack and split while the rain comes down and keep this stuff dry. Either way it's been a lot of fun getting this stuff ready. Cheers.
Its not that it won't both be covered, just meant by the fact im giving it some more attention than the oak. This bl has some rot in it but minimal compared to the whole tree that went down.
So, that you are burning you get a hint of the smell BL can put out. My wife hates it but no problem as we don't have any here. A friend gave us a little bit once so we could try it. Burned nice and give long heat but stinks.
I have burned the bark and some of the wood. If I could describe the smell its minimal. However when I split the stuff it smells like ketchup. Go figure. The one wood that I have to hate when it burns is the horse chestnut. Its got a smell that is of a woody body odor. I'll have to burn more locust to get a real grasp of it but so far its not as bad here. Would have to wonder what is in your soil that makes wood burn pretty smelly.
I think I've said about this before somewheres on here. A few February's back I was cutting on a buddy's grandparents farm, his grandpa had a pile of bl's in 16' lengths he claimed he cut back in 76'. Not one single bit of rot, certainly had no bark, but no rot. Chit, there's fence post still standing all over the place around these parts that could easily be 100yrs old.. I got 4 cord out of that pile, still have three of them packed away for safe keeping. I like it, but only will use it when it's cold enough to warrant its abilities. Definitely a smelly one as Dennis stated, I can deal with that though. It's all over the place here, like a bad weed. Stack it, and the oak up off the ground, top cover it and let it sit 3 yrs.. or is this wood you plan to burn this comming winter (I hope not)?
Some of this wood is part of a standing dead tree, so some of the wood is drier than bone. Others are in between mc so its not super high but middling between about 25-22% give or take. Others are past that in low 30's. The dry stuff shows the bark being completely off and the surface looks sorta like a turtle shell dried out. Scaly. I get that *ding* if i get a couple together when stacking. Theres a mix so I don't intend to burn it, likely sell for helping put my stove in. There's a couple logs I haven't cut and split that might make it in the stove. They sound like a metal pipe banging on the ground if they hit another log. Those will go in a separate area and dry for the next 2-3 months or so. This isn't my only supply of BL but its certainly the best looking and easier to manage. The supply I got first was also a mix of standing dead tree, termites. So far that mc % is around 17-14 ish. Most wood around here in WA takes about a year to season since the humidity can drop to teens on a hot or cold day. Grain not as tight but I dont plan to burn the oak for another 2 years anyways.
I'd def leave that oak go as long as you can. I have about a cord worth that's 3 yr CSS and I actually decided to check it with the handy dandy MM the other day and I'm still showing 20-22% oak is the only thing I usually check everything else dries in 2 summers here just fine. That moisture meter will give you a number, but you will learn you don't need it, just like others have stated. A bit of advice from a "newer" wood burner.. don't worry so much about what wood is what, and how it it'll react and whether or not your cherry splits will blow up your stove if you mix it with a maple split etc..worry about two things.. 1st burn DRY wood... i.e. Wood Css at very least one full yr.....2nd have a safe chimney/setup. And 3rd.. burn dry wood!!! I too, 5 yrs ago thought I had dry wood going in to my first winter.. I was proven wrong real quick trying to burn wet wood in a "wood/coal" indoor boiler. I didn't even start using an EPA stove until 2 yrs ago when I was sure I had enough dry wood. Moral of the story ... burn dry wood, be safe, and everything else will be absolutely fine.
Yes I do remember reading about your black locust posts and that is the majority of what Ive been seeing as far as functionality goes for this kind of wood. On CL just a few days ago I searched "black locust" and a posting for outdoor furniture tables at 3,000 bucks a pop made extremely well. Very slick stuff and something you'd want if you had a wet deck that overlooked the water. The next day I went to search for it, it was gone. I have reason to believe that if anyone knows BL, they'd be willing to buy it because there isn't much that takes wear and tear like it. Surely that table will outlast the person who bought it and likely the next 4 generations if that.
Yup yup yup. Last year I got on the ball. I managed to get white birch, cherry, horse chestnut and a mix of doug fir and pines. This is their second year in the sun and much more direct sun. Also I didn't even formulate a plan to even install a stove then!! I just wanted wood for the pit. We've only had maybe 2 rainy days since the summer started. Day before Fathers day and a light sprinkle day. Other than that, sunny 70's- 90's. Definitely have kiln dried doug fir blocks and whatnot. This stuff is dry and ive used that MM as a guide strictly. Im not worrying so much anymore, its just a big difference when you put a fire in an enclosed space and gotta remember to fine-tune it. I appreciate all the inputs that folks give me, just helps to make the transition when you're used to firepits and fireplaces. I burn the chit out of those options. Now I know that with the math (Talking everything here from wood to house space etc) it's not going to take much and I may abandon my electric stove on account of that.
