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All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Fire Wood => Topic started by: coolidge on October 27, 2015, 05:17:45 PM

Title: Got wood
Post by: coolidge on October 27, 2015, 05:17:45 PM
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/0001/11/30/how-fracking-making-firewood-more-expensive/1808958
Title: Re: Got wood
Post by: MattyNH on October 27, 2015, 07:18:49 PM
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/0001/11/30/how-fracking-making-firewood-more-expensive/1808958
Yeah I saw that article...Always a excuse on why wood is expensive.. ridiculous...Esp When NH is #2 and Maine the #1 treed states..Last year and so far this year has/is been a fight to get grapple wood..So far this year ive been unable to get grapple wood.. (im not the only one)..And yes I pay cash..Ill keep fighting to get it
Title: Re: Got wood
Post by: mlappin on October 27, 2015, 07:47:23 PM
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/0001/11/30/how-fracking-making-firewood-more-expensive/1808958
Yeah I saw that article...Always a excuse on why wood is expensive.. ridiculous...Esp When NH is #2 and Maine the #1 treed states..Last year and so far this year has/is been a fight to get grapple wood..So far this year ive been unable to get grapple wood.. (im not the only one)..And yes I pay cash..Ill keep fighting to get it

No such thing as grapple wood here, when the trees are cut they are already sold to the mill, best you can get is to cut the tops.
Title: Re: Got wood
Post by: GCTerpfan on October 28, 2015, 12:06:21 PM
Are the prices given in that article accurate?  $400 a cord? That's insane.  I get a dump trailer load delivered to my house already cut and split for $100.  It's about one wheelbarrow load short of a full cord.
Title: Re: Got wood
Post by: MattyNH on October 28, 2015, 06:50:01 PM
Are the prices given in that article accurate?  $400 a cord? That's insane.  I get a dump trailer load delivered to my house already cut and split for $100.  It's about one wheelbarrow load short of a full cord.
Its probably right in the Boston/metro/Cape Cod area..Ive yet to see or hear that price here in NH or in ME..
Title: Re: Got wood
Post by: MattyNH on October 28, 2015, 06:50:49 PM
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/0001/11/30/how-fracking-making-firewood-more-expensive/1808958
Yeah I saw that article...Always a excuse on why wood is expensive.. ridiculous...Esp When NH is #2 and Maine the #1 treed states..Last year and so far this year has/is been a fight to get grapple wood..So far this year ive been unable to get grapple wood.. (im not the only one)..And yes I pay cash..Ill keep fighting to get it

No such thing as grapple wood here, when the trees are cut they are already sold to the mill, best you can get is to cut the tops.
I believe it
Title: Re: Got wood
Post by: willieG on October 28, 2015, 07:21:07 PM
Are the prices given in that article accurate?  $400 a cord? That's insane.  I get a dump trailer load delivered to my house already cut and split for $100.  It's about one wheelbarrow load short of a full cord.
here in southern  Ontario the going rate is about 70 bucks a face cord (3 of them to a full cord) so 210 a cord plus delivery and most guys  say a 3 cord min for that price
Title: Re: Got wood
Post by: coolidge on October 29, 2015, 02:23:41 AM
Local logger around me is selling grapple loads for 125 a cord.    Cut, split, delivered prices are all over the place, low of 200/cord to 395 for "seasoned" wich is still in log length.
Title: Re: Got wood
Post by: GCTerpfan on October 29, 2015, 06:48:27 AM
Funny story that highlights how different regions have different prices for firewood.  When I was in college I had a roommate that would cut firewood on weekends. He lived about 1 hour away from were we went to school. Our college landlord lived in the house beside us and my roommate noticed that he had a wood stove as a secondary heat source. He asked our landlord if he would be interested in trading firewood for rent, and he quoted the landlord a price of $100 a cord. The landlord said he would take as much firewood as he could bring and to just dump it in the back yard. 

So after bringing trailer load after trailer load my roommate asks me " I have brought this guy about 8 cords of wood, why does he want so much, and where is he putting it, It keeps disappearing and I can barely keep up?" My response was didn't you see the sign in his front yard that says "Fire Wood in back yard - $200 a cord- you load yourself"?
Title: Re: Got wood
Post by: U.P. Doug on October 29, 2015, 06:39:46 PM
Price is 100.00 a cord delivered here in upper Michigan. It's mostly hard maple and beech. Last year was my first year burning, and I have been to busy to get into my woods, so I am buying again this year to have it on hand. Plan to cut this winter.
Title: Re: Got wood
Post by: mlappin on November 06, 2015, 07:40:13 PM
Thats a very good price Doug, here at the hay auctions a good size pickup load of wood will go over $125,