Ordering firewood?.

[Huskybill]

i usually order wood by now and am far ahead by 2 years. Some say rough winter? Some say colder winter? Some say nothing no brown/ black bugs to be seen. I have enough wood for a normal heating winter. My gut tells me to stash four cords away. My wallet says that’s $840. But lose power and get snowed in........ the last time it was seven days snowed in no power. Wood and generators. What do you think?

 

[chucker]

be a good ole time boy scout! " be prepared".... better to have to much as even 1 extra cord is what I advise my wood buying clients! some scoff and some end up buying 2 extra cords the next heating season!!

 

[Cowboy254]

Generator takes folding money to run. Wood doesn't, unless cutting it takes you away from paid hours (minus a coupla bucks for fuel, oil, etc). If you don't burn it this year, you can burn it next year. Go cut some more wood, and post pics .

 

[Deleted member 117362]

I thought you cut your own firewood? Spent untold hours in woods, cutting timber with that 2100? What?

 

[Huskybill]

I recently became disabled. I’m trying to make a comeback healthwise.

 

[Deleted member 117362]

I recently became disabled. I’m trying to make a comeback healthwise.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you are up and back at it soon.

 

[alleyyooper]

Yup I keep hearing colder and deeper snow this winter. Weather guessers don't seem to know one way or the other yet either.
My woolie worms are not doing much better at predicting either. I think half so far have been the normal black brown middle bu there have been about the same number that have been totaly black.
Over all I would say buy the extra wood now isn't like you won't or can't burn it later if not needed this winter.

Al

 

[NSMaple1]

More snow usually lessens my heat load. Get enough of it out there blown up against the house, and it makes darn good insulation.

 

[pauljoseph]

I always have a couple extra cords. Never know what will happen. And in a sense there is no such thing as extra, just wood I won’t burn till next year.

 

[old CB]

Get enough of it out there blown up against the house, and it makes darn good insulation.

When we get any more than a dusting of snow, I bank the house with snow--shovel up enough to cover exposed foundation and where the siding meets the foundation. Also, we have a basement door with a poor seal at the bottom--I heap snow up as high as possible against it. You can feel the difference with a banked house. Learned that tip decades ago from an old-timer. Back then I banked the house and the barn both, and it made a huge difference. (No barn now.)

 

[Odog]

Never hurts to have an extra cord or two if you can swing it. I was out of the area living in hotels most of last winter so I ended up with an extra 4 cord. This winter is starting out the same...

 

[full chizel]

I thought you cut your own firewood? Spent untold hours in woods, cutting timber with that 2100? What?

You never smelled bullchit?

 

[MrWhoopee]

I allow 5 cords for a winter. Don't think I've ever burned that much, but you never know. I keep 15 cords in stock. As you've learned, you never know when you might not be able to cut. Kind of like saving for your old age.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

I heat my house on around 3 cords a winter. I have in the area of 15 cords at the house.

As a firewood vendor, I say don't wait. Had a lady call yesterday expecting she could get wood the same day. She threw a fit when I told her I'm booked out through November at this point.

 

[Sandhill Crane]

She threw a fit when I told her I'm booked out through November at this point.

That there is funny!
Suggest she can pick up firewood at the grocery store with the rest of her weekly stuff.

 

[full chizel]

Where are your sons you bought and gave the saws to? Tell em get cuttin’

 

[NSMaple1]

First post is a bit confusing on second read. Do you have 2 years wood ahead, or just this winter? Sounds like you said both.

This time of the year, I aim for having this coming winters wood in my basement & ready to go, with 2 more winters wood stacked in the yard. It's not like it will waste away, drying in stacks, in 2 years. Money in the bank.

 

[Leeroy]

Where are your sons you bought and gave the saws to? Tell em get cuttin’

This. Buy a tri-axle load of gypsy moth killed oak treelength. Plenty around, and seems to dry pretty fas once it's cut and split.

 

[Sandhill Crane]

Nov. 1.
Several calls for firewood today.
One voice mail about 3:00 pm this Friday afternoon, twenty minutes ago. "If you could deliver today that would be preferable."
Ha!!!!!!!