Where I live, buying firewood has become quite expensive. A full cord of cured firewood (ready to burn) costs on average $325 for hard wood. On top of that having gone up $125, there are a a lot of swindlers out there.
You see, a full cord should be 4 foot wide by 8 foot long, stacked 4 foot high. I've seen some people selling a cord for $175, but when you ask, or dig around a bit, you'll find out it's the price of a face cord which is a 3rd of the volume of a full cord. They'll also sell half cords, and claim they have a special bucket attached to a tractor that measures out an exact cord. We bought such a cord once, and the pile looked a bit small, but I doubted myself because it was on a hill, and in the snow. I ended upqying the guy his $215, and it took be a couple months to get around to stacking it... turned out to be just about half a cord if that!!!
I was pissed, but now it's just too expensive, and I have a forest full of trees! Luckily, I purchased a homemade wood splitter from someone a couple years ago, and so far I'm going after the trees that have fallen naturally.
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After cutting down a tree into approximately 16" logs, I loaded them into the tractor.
And on we went to the log splitter. Of course it started to rain, so I wanted to clean up my gear... I don't think the chainsaw should stay out in the rain, it can handle a lot, but not the downpour that was threatening the area!!!
Our little friend Zion loves to follow me everywhere, and it makes driving a tractor very stressful, I'm constantly trying to help him kick the habbit of biting the front tires while they roll... that's not fun at all, but I love him!!!
Here's all the wood I was able to split. It's about half of a face cord, I think, and had the wood splitter been working straight through the whole time, the whole thing from start to finish would have taken me 2 hours. Meaning taking out the tractor into the forest, cutting the logs, loading them, splitting them, stacking them up in their cubbies ready to sell, and put away the tractor and the chainsaw.
Only thing is, I don't take care of my small engines as well as I should, and the wood splitter started acting up on me after 6 logs or so. It stopped running and wouldn't start again. I thought it had over heated, so I had lunch to let it cool down, bought some carburetor cleaner because that's what is usually going bad first on things like that.
I managed to get it going again, by squirting the cleaner into the carburetor, but it kept stalling on me every couple of logs. I persisted and finished what I had. It was enough to fill our self-serv firewood kiosk, and that's all I needed for now. Our vping guests had plenty for the weekend, and we had a wedding to get ready for!!!
At least now I know we don't need to buy wood anymore. Screw you swindlers!!!
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Here in Mass the law is to call wood a cord, it must be UNCUT 4' lengths in a pile 4' high and 8' long. If the wood is cut, it is not legally a cord and is just a pile of wood. This year I am buying a lot of piles of wood....
As much as I don't like regulations... this one makes sense, but still how does that protect a person from not getting scammed on the volume of a pile of wood? I guess it could be done by the pickup truck load or something like that.
We're looking at pellet stoves for the house now!
Pellet stoves work, until there's no power.....
Yeah... I'm looking at what I can do to bypass that problem.
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Hey thanks!!!
Oh, well done, that looks like super firewood :))
For the last decade, I live in a place where I don't need heating during the winter. Maybe a small gas heater just in the evening, but that's it. But I do know the struggle, my parents live where a lot of firewood is needed for the winter season and they complained that it is so expensive...
P.S. I hope your dog will stop doing what he is doing hahahha. I imagine it is stressful for you driving the tractor when you know he is there around
Yeah, the pup only does it once in a while now... he is typically pre-occupied by running after other things in the forests!
We don't use firewood for heating, though we should get a stove at some point. It's for sale to the peplle who come to camp on our land.
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Lucky you have wood on your land. It's expensive here too. We usually go to the forest or reserve for it but always run out exactly this time of year and have to be cold a couple of weeks til the weather gets proper warm. Have a small stash curing for next year but we need to go on hunt. Hate paying for wood
I hate it too! Well, the cold couple weeks left, it's time to cuttle up than... stay in bed a bit longer and all that 😉!
Ah, warm snuggles and a cuppa... The best
Our winter is coming quickly... that means the same for us over here!!!
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