Hooooly Crap! 160.00 for about 3/4 of a cord. Thats about double what it goes for here.
Abandon ship Amanda and come on up!!
Like many areas of the west this area was built on ranching and logging. Most of the loggers have moved on to other jobs, or moved away. Many of the ranchers have done the same. Now we have the working class (people like me) - retirees with some money (the guy I sold wood to) or the retired and poor (the people we cut wood for last week).
Around here people cut their own wood, buy their wood, burn pellets or burn their money filling the propane tank all winter. Lots of people in the area I've talked to spend $400/month through the winter on propane alone. Some much more. Me ...much, much less. We use propane for back-up only. Really a secondary back-up as I'd rather heat with electricity when we're gone than the forced air unit.
Regardless wood sales give us a little extra spending money every year, we buy a new tool every year. Last year we bought a hydraulic splitter, the year before my first real saw (real saws really do outcut a wildthing). This year we hope to put together enough for a nice tandem axle flatbed trailer, and maybe a nice used ms 440.
Really for me, though it's all about the therapy. I work indoors at a great job. I really do love the work I do, but it's indoors. So all of this is an elaborate scheme to get me out into the woods.