Using a 1- 5 rating ? By BTU of the wood ? By quantity By ease By price Example : Shagbark, 2 cord, a mile from home, free, had to go buck & load Score would be A+ for shagbark = 5 points (pine, poplar would be 1) quantity of 2 cord = 2 (5 or more would be 5) 1 for within a mile of home = 4 (next door would be 5 , 0 over 20 miles) price is free = 5 Work involved to get it home = 3 (Free delivered = 5) 5+2+4+5+3 = 19 Class 19 score (25 is the top , Awesomely supreme score) Maybe; (bonus points for already cut & split to length, stacked ? ..... ? )
And quality. If its punk, or all knots, its rating would fall. I think we need a formula that takes all into account. Probably should factor in need as well. A great score of firewood means something different to someone in missouri than it does in ontario.
How about eight cords of black locust, 12' logs, delivered to my driveway, for $50 per cord? From your scale I'm giving it a 24.
(23.7 BTU X .75 cord X 5 qualty) -20 miles -5 difficulty - $5 58.875 BV (burn value) Tweaked it some, here is my locust score from a couple weeks ago. And here is my maple score from the same trip. As you can see the score goes up due to the amount of wood obtained. (20 BTU X 1.5 CORD X 4 quality) - 20 miles -3 difficulty - $5 92 BV
BTU X CORDS X QUALITY = Burn Quality MILES + DIFFICULTY + DOLLARS= Burn Cost BQ - BA = Burn Value Quality is rated 0-5 Difficulty is rated 0-10
Wasn't there a member here who had a tree fall on their stacks during a windstorm earlier this year? They probably got to make an insurance claim too - that one's gonna be hard to beat!
If the "score" is punky and basically junk, I won't be sharing to have it rated, I'll be busy chucking it out back to let mother nature have it
In the northeast oak is plentiful and theres always enough of it if your scrounging or buying...The bad part to that is seasoned hardwood from a dealer isn't always seasoned and for folks like us who cut, buck and split we have to season it for 3 yrs. BUT after saying that, it's so good when oak is seasoned and loaded into the stove. The other typical hardwoods (ash, maple & beech) in the NE are generally ready in a years time. My example will be: Red/white oak =5 quantity =4 Proximity =3 (approx. 4 miles away at a satellite cutting area) Price =5 or 3 (scrounges are 5 and tree length loads are 3, $95/cord delivered) work to get home=2-3 (I haul it the 4 miles and stack it and dry it at home) high # 20 low # 17
My score would have to be a 25. I get 1-2 dump truck loads of quality hardwood logs a month, sometimes more. This wood is free, actually sometimes they cut dead trees down on my property for free.
I had that last weekend, some free maple from a neighbor, ran it through the splitter, saw the punk, took it to the back 40
I had some a couple weeks ago, there was some punk in it but only in two rounds out of a truck load. My first year we had to take what we could get so split around a lot of punk.
Came home from work the other day and saw my neighbor on the end of a 24ft extension ladder limbing a 60ft Shagbark Hickory. So, I had to stop to see what was up. He wanted the tree down because it was dropping an enormous amount of nuts in his front yard. He doesn't burn wood and said "it's yours if help me get it worked up". This is what I came home with: (that's a 16ft trailer with 18" sideboards) It should compliment the Hedgeapple well.
A score is a score. Why classify it? If I score a single cord of ash a mile away or 5 cords of hedge next door I still have a score. In fact I would be thrilled with either one.
I don't think the scoring system is intended as a discouraging tactic - probably just some cabin fever up there in Alaska
There has to be a time involved in gathering wood? If it takes xx minutes to load a quad trailer and transfer to wood pile or other truck trailer there has to be deductions - I do it in my own woods and sometimes I wonder if the wood dump is easier/faster Who's working on the new smiley's of judges holding up score cards?
