This year up here in central Alberta for supposedly seasoned cords: Poplar/cottonwood = $250 - $300 Spruce/pine = $350 Birch = $500 Now I know that's Canadian pesos, but even so, we're still only talking a 30% difference....other than the birch, it's all softwood, and it sure as heck isnt kiln dried.
You've got to be kidding me with those prices!!! That's way too much..... and yeah I understand CD to USD.
I don't know of anyone around here that heats with oil. Everybody I know has natural gas. The only reference chart I could find puts it around that, yes. We're taxed all to heck up here in our socialist paradise. We have the oil sands just north of here and conventional oil wells all around us. A massive amount of it gets refined about 15 minutes from my house...yet gasoline still was still going for $1.23.9 / liter when I came home tonight. That works out to $4.86 per US gallon. WE MINE AND MAKE THE STUFF RIGHT STINKING HERE !!!! The oil that's used to make the gasoline that my dad burns back east is sucked out of the ground in Saudi Arabi, shipped half way around the world, gets refined about a 5-6 hour drive from his place, and gets trucked up there. It's the same price to within a couple of cents !!!! The government and oil companies insist there's no price fixing. Yeah right. What the oil companies don't fix with their profit margins, the government fixes with taxes. Socialism ain't all it's cracked up to be.
I'd love to. Unfortunately I'm scrounging for space to put my own winter supply. Cutting and stacking any worth while amount for a year until it seasons just to sell it.....it isn't worth it to me. If I had a few acres, that would be different, but here in city subdivision land....t'ain't gonna happen.
I grew up burning wood at mom and dad's house and their country store. We had fireplace and later pot belly stoves and now mom mom has Fisher stove at house.I didn't know anything about seasoning wood. We cut it and burned it. I have picked up some great knowledge from this group. Got Dad's MM from his woodworking shop to check wood with now. Never knew about resplitting to check. We have a Drolet EPA stove now, so letting it dry more. Thanks for sharing info on here
blacksmithden .. oh I understand completely about the taxation in Canada. My college roommate, lives in Montreal as does my mother-in-law and most of my wife's family. In fact, I might have heard of some guy near the border, that family ships him items to transport across.
Several years ago when we sold some trees to a fellow, they cut, split and loaded the truck then went right to the buyers. "Oh yes, it is seasoned."
I actually had to look this word up, never heard it before. Definition of NESCIENCE New thing learned today!
Every scrap of mine has been scrounged , I burn it in the order I collected it . The day I have to buy wood is the day I turn my heating on
I'm the same with it being 100% scrounged, but I'm starting to wonder if $100 a cord delivered in log length isn't so terrible. My time is free, but its valuable too. Most of the time its 15-30 minutes each way to the wood, and often its extra work getting it out of someone's yard. I could potentially save 3 hours per cord at a minimum. I wouldn't have to kill myself either to get it as quick as I can.
I paid $125 for a cord of logs in the spring of 2017. That's a good price here. If you can get a cord for $100, then there's nothing wrong with that at all.
Theres a guy in Salem NH selling for $100. I'm thinking I'll call him. I need 2 cords of ash maple for each of the next two winters. I already have the oak put up for those winters. Then I can concentrate on 22-23, and it can all sit for 3 years.
While I understand that sentiment, I've purchased log loads because of the reasons just listed. ^^^ Even with purchased log loads, we've saved a ton of $$$ compared to fuel oil for the furnace. Last load we got cost $850, and provided over two years of heat. Can't heat the house with fuel oil for one winter for $850. No wasted time transporting wood around, no limbs to deal with, it's stacked and can be cut easily right next to the splitter. Yep, I'll order more log loads as necessary.
Further, I should note that the $850 log load was a full triaxle load, and is typically ~7 cord of wood.
