Shortage of firewood in Maine.

It is the same in the hay business. When we baled and sold hay we always had one or two customers show up after dark during supper time wanting one bale of hay (knowing they fed a bale a day!). I talked and talked to my steady customers about helping with baling and stacking in the barn for a reduced cost to their hay purchase AND have their year's supply set aside in my mow! No takers. I do not understand that mentality.

 

Yeah, I'm starting to get the "you think you have enough wood yet?" and "are you selling it now?" From the neighborhood, the answer is no!
I was out yesterday enjoying the spring weather, built another firewood rack and split another half cord or so

 

As you know, done right, wood storage takes a fair amount of space. Looks like you have a handle on it.

 

The back of one of my shirts says “Got Wood?”

 

Yes, you are so right. Those myths are ignorance that is passed on and on. Those writing about it pass it on along with their other information. Like I said, it is from our local Rag. The sad thing is that is that it doesn't have competition. The author figured out there is a supply/demand issue but knows very little about wood burning.

 

This is my favorite quote from the article.

“We don’t understand household behavior if there are two heating sources. How do people choose? Is it purely price, or is it something else?”

For me, price is definitely what got me into wood burning, and while price is still a factor, it is the “something else” that keeps me doing it. I’m sure that is true of many (most?) of us on the site. I daydream about about splitting and stacking wood!


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Wood keeps the wife happy (and the cat and kids)
the house just isn't the same on oil heat

 

Another article to in the sun journal saying same stuff. Best quote:

Experts say thousands of Maine residents were caught off guard by a warm fall that caused firewood customers to delay getting in their winter supplies. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Warm fall...look like we are going to get a winter off. !

 

I lived in Maine 10 years, I never thought I could take a winter off, are these transplants, or have mainers gone soft?

 

Firewood distributors say there is a shortage after an early cold snap and wind storm in October forced many to use wood earlier than expected.

The price of home heating oil almost doubled from last year. Do you think Mainers just kept burning oil like last year or leaned on their wood stoves ? In the recent cold spell do you think they shivered in the cold or pushed their wood stoves to the limit ?

Journalism is dead. They write anything these days without spending two seconds corroborating what they write. Fake news, pulling facts out of their azz. Anything goes these days. Sheep buy it.

 

This is the same reason I do very little plumbing on the side.

 

^^^this^^^

If you run out of firewood in December, You're an IDIOT !
If you're down to your last wheel barrel load of firewood, and you haven't called for more! You're an IDIOT !

If you run out of heating oil because you were waiting to get a better rate! YOU'RE AN IDIOT !
Apparently my neighbor saves 6 cents per gallon if he buys over 200 gallons. His daughter's house is 25 minutes south. He ordered oil on a friday when the gage was "down to a quarter tank". The Oil Co. said they would deliver monday. Tank ran out late saturday. He hauled oil in cans. Then had to go back out to prime the oil furnace...Where's his $12-15 savings now? And guess who had to go along and hear the whole story cause he's a plumber... ... on a Sunday afternoon

 

TurboDiesel your right he's loco. I too save money when I take larger drops, simple solution, plan ahead put in 2 tanks. Yup 25 cents a gallon on 400 gallon drop or $100 a drop paid for 2nd tank pretty quick before my woodstove became reality.

 

If anyone is enjoying this thread. Here is another one with some of the same topics to enjoy
The Value of Firewood

 

If anyone is enjoying this thread. Here is another one with some of the same topics to enjoy
The Value of Firewood

My oil co. gives a price break at 300 gallons. and now that I think about, it's probably to prevent [thrifty] customers running their tank out at 250 gallons just to get a couple cents off. 300 gallons requires 2 tanks .




This thread just reminded me to go check my oil tank!
Yep! It's still there...

 

Price for sure, but also, I find myself watching TV less and just sitting in front of the fire after a long day and spacing out. It's strangely calming, and something our species has been doing for hundreds of thousands of years. I'd have a hard time sitting down and watching my gas furnace in that same type of way.

 

In Maine: You either have to have a big pile of firewood, or a big pile of cash to buy oil, but do not get caught heading into winter without one or the other.

Long standing Maine Firewood Proverb.

The problem with people is, they have no money saved up, and they got addicted to mild winters. They say now that most millennial's spend more money on coffee then their retirements. With many becoming homeowners, that same mindset is hitting their lifestyle.

 

If this is actually a state wide issue milliainals can’t be the only ones causing it. I believe I may be on the frindge of being one (cringe). I have very few friends my age that burn wood. Most are happy to turn up the thermostat.
I really think that it’s a lack of prepairedness all around. If someone wanted to burn wood they would have what they need to get through the winter.
Saying that you have no money to buy wood isn’t an excuse. There is enough wood laying on the ground that if someone really needs it it’s there.

Really sad that with all the trees in Maine there is a lack of firewood.