I have a couple of friends from PA, but they are more towards the New Holland, PA area. My wife spent her first honeymoon in PA, but it was not with me, so about all I know of the area is what snowy I-81 looks like after a 7 car pile up and 3 fatalities. It shut the interstate down, then snow and winds drifted over the road and I got to see what the I-81/I-80 1 Mile Ahead overhead sign said somewhere near Hazelton, PA for 13 straight hours. It looked like a nice area, and the people I know from there, all seem nice.
I’m northeast of Hazleton. You probably got off 81 on 380 & then onto I84. I live only live a few miles from 84
I beleive the (big potato factory) you speak of is Utz Potato Chips n its in Hanover....its about a mile from where I work. On any given day there's 20 to 30 semi trailers unloading potatoes. It something to see how they tilt the whole rig if they don't have a walking floor.
Very nice of her to display your stove LT. Atta boy!! $1200 for a full truck load here i'm hearing...
That's definitely a sight to see. They do the same thing at the paper mills in Maine to empty the chip trucks, then push it around with big dozers
The door is 20”x 18”, with the 34 x 44” deep firebox. I’m attaching a link with specs, and also the schematic for hooking into the furnace and or plumbing. Portage & Main Ultimizer BL34-44 Boiler by Obadiah's Woodstoves
I talked with my friend a logger/tree trimmer/firewood guy. For an 8 wheel truck of mixed hard wood (6 to 20 inch diameter) he is at $850 delivered, he tells me there is about 25 face cord once it's CSS. I am burning a little less than 2 full cord a year. The convenience, time, and getting ahead a few years may be worth it. I am thinking on it, seems hard to pass up though.
I also like that I no longer need nor own my 3/4 ton truck. There are a lot more pleasant ways to do the 99% of what that truck did that it wasn't needed for. I'm also convinced that it cost me a lot more than $100/cord to get wood home with it all in (gas/brakes/tires/suspension/etc). Might be different if you are making money with it but for me it was all cost that was only spread across 8 cord a year.
I have 45 acres...so just picking the best spot is what I need to do. I ordered up a load. It's going to be a few weeks though, most of the stuff right now is soft maple and I won't take it. He has a contract where there is a mix of ash, oak, some hickory...I told him that is what I want! Hopefully he will have a load together soon. Cant' wait.
I salute your snobbery Kidding aside, I would like to know how this works out for you and who he is if it works out well.
I was considering a log load for $110 a cord a couple years ago but then I had some storm damage and paid to have some trees downed and got far enough ahead with that to put a log load on hold. Also cutting dead standing red oak at friends' / friends of friends, with friends. Now there's no ads for log loads here at all. Maybe the few guys left clearing lots just don't bother or get good enough prices at processors. Who knows. Right now I have quite a bit of caterpillar dead standing white oak to keep whittling away at on my own property so I don't have any feelers out for finding wood to cut up and bring home. I've cut off log loads and it does save quite a bit of time vs hauling out of the woods.
Wish this was closer,or I had the room, but anyone in the Northshore MA area, Keiths Tree Service in Wakefield is selling 6-7 cord grapple loads for $400 delivered within a 5 mile radius. Even to pay additional delivery charge is still worth it! Just from what I can see from the road the last time I was by there, there's gotta be 100 cord at least.
Welcome to the club T.Jeff Veal ! refers to firewood meaning its Cut, Split and Stacked logs don't dry out until they are cut to length (bucked) and split. Stacking in rows insures the wood dries faster and even. (as opposed to laying in a pile on the ground) Stacking on skids in the sun and top covered is the preferred method here. The three year plan is having three years worth of CSS firewood on hand at all times. This is like an insurance plan. For me, in Pa, our oak is very slow drying. Can take three years or more to get it down to 20% moisture content. So having your wood three years insures that your wood is always dried to the proper moisture content. Also, if you were to get disabled for any reason, you will most likely have enough firewood to hold you through till you recover.
