Who cuts firewood, but doesnt actually burn it?
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Pain Cow
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I'd say about 40% of the wood I've cut and split gets hauled off to friend's houses free of charge and I don't burn it. The last couple years anyway. I have plenty and it's my hobby. Besides, the less I have on hand the more motivated I am to constantly scrounge which is fun. So everybody wins.
I had thought in the past that were they to ban OWB's I would most likely keep cutting and selling wood to offset the cost of heating with gas, and to finance the purchase and installation of another means of wood heat.
mtngun
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Dude, you need help.
Just kidding. Hope you get that stove.
I am impressed it only took me 682 posts for you to figure that out....
KMB
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I don't heat with the wood I cut, either. It goes to fireplace fires, cooking fires, campfires, the outdoor firepit, and a couple friends/neighbors who heat with wood. Infrequently, it will go into the fireplace to heat a couple rooms when the electricity is down.
Even if the wood just sat in stacks forever, I'd rather see that than having it rot in the forest.
Even if the wood just sat in stacks forever, I'd rather see that than having it rot in the forest.
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I do the same thing. I have a restaurant that I can eat at anytime I want for less than half price. I'll be giving him a cord this year and I'll still feel indebted to the guy.
StihlyinEly
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Now that's an idea. Wish we had a restaurant here the had wood-fired cookstoves or a fireplace.
Oh, they don't have either. That cord will be for his home. His sub shop is in a very Urban area and he that caters to anyone including thugs. He loves it when a hired gun is eating in his place, plus they have non stop ESPN.
wvlogger
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I don't think yo could call what i do burning it for a home. i use wood to heat metal to shape it. The other 95% gets sold.
Thats pretty cool!!!
so you dont even have to call when your bringing the wood?....do they know what kind of sammich you want before you ask too?
opcorn:opcorn:
I dont burn the wood I cut either. Im a seasonal worker in a flagstone quarry. I sell all the firewood I cut for supplemental income during the winter months. I sometimes burn scrap wood that I cut in a fire pit. This winter I have a job helping a neighbor. He has a tree service company. He has many trees to take down this winter. Most are right next to peoples homes. Im still doing firewood though.
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Will_C
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I used to cut wood for my father, he burned it and sold it. Now, I cut to help out my brother-he has an OWB. My work schedule does not allow me to burn wood (gone from the house 12-15 hours some days.) I am building a house next year, and I may very well have an OWB.
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discounthunter
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i never really thought about it but i only burn (inside)about half what i cut.i give some too my sister,parents,neighbors. some gets used for outside fires and oyster roasts.
DHIBBS75
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I burn most of all I cut. My neighbor and I cut together most of the time he likes his small 12-14 and I like em long 20 or so.. THats all my splitter will take.. stove 24... I think he has enough for 2-3 winters and I 1 or more.. He sells some I dont...
For a number of years after we restored a old three story farm house we were not burning wood but still were cutting hedge post and hedge fire wood
and selling both and buying propane, then propane went to two dollars a gallon and I installed a Garn wood boiler and heat the house and the shop.
and selling both and buying propane, then propane went to two dollars a gallon and I installed a Garn wood boiler and heat the house and the shop.
always figure about 8 pickup loads a year .at 50 a load will burn it an save a few hundred more .an the house will be warm. not going to heat other houses for four hundred dollars
davec
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So far? None of it for me... 
No wood stove here. but I am clearing land for the new house, and that will have wood burning heat.. Dis be the oak we have pulled out do far....
Hey ya know what I noticed? I'm a gnat's a$$ away from getting that first row of novas filled up. Anyone got some rep? I need like 2 hits to make it.
No wood stove here. but I am clearing land for the new house, and that will have wood burning heat.. Dis be the oak we have pulled out do far....Hey ya know what I noticed? I'm a gnat's a$$ away from getting that first row of novas filled up. Anyone got some rep? I need like 2 hits to make it.
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