Lots of logging companies around my way, was thinking of trying to contact a company and getting the price on a load of logs that I'd buck and split. Anybody use this method?
Is that for spruce? Same price here for a 20 cord load of spruce logs.$100 a cord is cheap. We are at $155/cord for logs.
Is that for spruce? Same price here for a 20 cord load of spruce logs.
I will buy a truck load every once in a while, but I pay about half of the numbers everyone else is saying. I only use wood heat about 4 months of the year. It saves me about $200 month on electricity, or around $800 in heating cost. I'll burn about 4 cords, or one cord per month average, per winter. Paying $100 per cord and then still having to buck, split and stack just doesnt seem worth the effort to burn wood, for the little bit of money saved. I can get about 2 years worth of wood, (8cords) for about $400, If I double that cost for bucking/splitting and stacking, I am at $800 and will get 8 months of heat, $100per month. A savings of about $800 over using electricity. Everyones weather is a little different, winters longer/shorter, colder/milder, and everyone should do their own math.
Here, winter is 11 months and one month of poor sledding.Here winter is 7 months.
Never have in all my years burning wood but thinking of it lately with my back.Lots of logging companies around my way, was thinking of trying to contact a company and getting the price on a load of logs that I'd buck and split. Anybody use this method?
I burn mostly oak here......dead standing oaks. Great fossil fuel.Winters are pretty mild, especially when you look at what a few of you folks have to deal with. I took my wife to YellowStone a few years ago and all I hear is how she would like to live out there. Now everytime they have a big snow storm out there, I call the wife to come see the snow on the news. I think I now have her convinced that the Northern Plains might be a nice place to visit, but to cold for year round living.
Another thing I have noticed about you northern folks is the quality of wood everybody burns. Spruce, pines, firs. We are well blessed with quality hardwoods. I burn mostly white and red oak, I only burn populars, maples and pines because I need to get rid of it.
Here, winter is 11 months and one month of poor sledding.
Winters are pretty mild, especially when you look at what a few of you folks have to deal with. I took my wife to YellowStone a few years ago and all I hear is how she would like to live out there. Now everytime they have a big snow storm out there, I call the wife to come see the snow on the news. I think I now have her convinced that the Northern Plains might be a nice place to visit, but to cold for year round living.
Another thing I have noticed about you northern folks is the quality of wood everybody burns. Spruce, pines, firs. We are well blessed with quality hardwoods. I burn mostly white and red oak, I only burn populars, maples and pines because I need to get rid of it.
Well drop by sometime, I live by the airport off the Alcan Highway. You are always welcome.Pfft. I've been to your neck of the woods, nice summers there.
I'm looking at about 100/cord for tamarack. Sells for 250/cord split around here. Closer to 300 this time of year
Compared to what species of birch? We mostly have white birch and that is quite a bit less dense than red oak.Red and white oak is just slightly better than birch actually. 24 million btu a cord compared to 23.6 million.
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