Is firewood really over $400/cord this year?
 

Am I doing it wrong? I tried to buy 1/2 cord firewood and was quoted $210. This is insanity. A couple years ago it was $100/cord.

Granted the firewood was a mix of some pretty exotic woods...I am floored...

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WHAT? Where do you live.

4 cords of Maple at $175 per cord, Nova Scotia Canada. Recent buy.

And people are moaning here as prices for hardwood are reaching $195 or so a cord.

In summer it was $165 or so.

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300 to 350 here for oak split that only up a little from last year

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Hells bells! Is this really what you guys are paying for hardwood down South?

Stocking up on wood sounds worth more than gold. I had a sense it could be, but it is far harder to hide.

What are people paying for Poplar and other softwoods?

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I just paid $180 for a cord of split, seasoned oak. That's just delivered though. Maybe those expensive prices include stacking?

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I didn't pay it. I am still searching for a good deal on wood.

This sucks. I'll plant my own damn hardwoods...

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$45 a rick here. A rick is a face cord, which is 1/3 cord. Some will deliver it local for that price. Seasoned hard maple and oak. Popple is mostly for the pulp mills. It's good for toilet paper but burns too quick for most to bother with.

Check out your local saw mills. They often have good hardwood cutoffs or skins leftover from sawlogs. I usually get a pickup full for $15. Harder to get nowdays though because they often sell it to the power companies to burn for electricity.

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My guy sells seasoned hardwood for 250/cord, up from 200 this spring.

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Ahhhh, the only nice thing about Sunshine year around. 82 degrees today, light easterly brezze, just fab-u-lous.

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My farmer neighbour put me on to Poplar as an early fall/late spring burn.

And I have to say I am convinced, by seeing his example for more than 2 years of seeing his part time use of it. No one wants it, and it it therefore easy/cheap to buy. Though it must be dried well. And kept undercover. It takes on water like mad if left out.

In fall and spring it produces a mild heat from the wood stove.

It seems to produce no ash in the stove and no build up in the chimney.

I was also very sceptical of Poplar, woodman, but I am sold now, I feel, on having a bit of it to hand. For spring and fall, or cool fires as needed. My neighbour actually uses an awful lot of it. He fell by it when he used some of his own cut wood. Prior to that he had seen it as rubbish too.

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around here it is 300 seasoned oak, split full cord DELIVERED (30 mile radius).

If you shop around you can get better deals. I am thinking 150-200/cord.

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Crazyness. Where I live theres f-ing orchards everywhere. Never paid for wood yet. :) sorry about the salt in the wound.

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ABout 45 a face cord here,(Michigan) or $125 govt. cord (full) oak/maple/ash, split

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Mixed black/white oak here, goes for about $50 a cord, split.

Last winter's ice storm brought a lot of firewood to the local market ...



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Aggy ole buddy how the hell can they sell a cord of oak for 50 smackaroos.....I wouldn't waste the time to start my saw for that even if it the wood was free, what about fuel ,chains/wear & tear and a persons back :confused_ma: It's not that I don't believe you....juss sayin

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In my area there is a wide spread...from $125 to $275 a cord. Mesquite is the highest and oak below that...quite a bit of pecan also.

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I cut and split my own...about 2-1/2 cords so far, will do about another cord in next couple weeks. So, at $250 or so a cord, that means I've
done about the equivalent of mining one ounce of Gold? Well,
hurray for me!

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Thar's gold in dem dar hills.

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a half a cord here is 65 bucks , but i get mine free after storms ,

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My neighbor used to burn it. I never asked him much about it but he was a wizard of a man. He died a few years back and i miss him alot. He knew things that seemed almost supernatural. Old German, came over in the 50's. Lots of popple around here. The morels grow among them.

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Last I saw here was a 1/2 ton chevy today stacked full , up to the top of the cab with bumper almost dragging with a sign firewood for sale $75 delivered .Parked in the front of walmart by the road with the owner sitting in a chair behind it .He is there about every other day .

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...still 5.00 per cord here in the bridger teton natnl forest....gotta cut it yourself but ...hey....

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I browse Kijiji daily and go load up the truck whenever someone has had to cut down a tree. Cost is probably $10/cord given the cost of gasoline to get out there and back, then I gotta split it myself once it dries. There's a lot out there... sometimes I'm the 10th guy to get to a tree, and there's still enough for 6 more pickup trucks. I just take one truck load and make an evening of it. I think most other people do the same. I think I have about 5 cords out in the backyard that I got that way since last winter, and they'll be dry enough by next winter.

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$200 here- $250 stacked. Never do know what your getting though. I've found pines amongst hardwood. Round these parts I find that it's always different sellers. I call the old guy we used and he's not doing it any more or whatever. I don't know why that would be. We're on the fossil grid though so we don't rely on it.
The local nursery guy is a good reliable source once he shuts down the garden center around Thanksgiving, but he's more expensive.
I'm one of these people that thinks even at $400, it's one of the cheaper things in life, like fresh food and such.
I used to have to chop and stack wood all day for my father as a boy. I remember being so excited when he finally let me do it. All by hand, nothing but a big sledge axe I could hardly heft, on a big ole apple stump. Boy, did the novelty wear off fast. It's great exercise, and peaceful work, but hard work is an understatement.
People take this stuff for granted. Go out and haul off enough wood for a cord (never mind chop it down), then cut it and stack it and wait for it to age, and see if you don't think even at $400, it's a relative bargain, though I guess that may be a vicinity relative statement.
I guess if you have the equipment it makes all the difference, but good machinery ain't cheap either.
People have lost priority over what should cost more and what shouldn't. Fresh Food and fuel are prime examples.

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Seems like in NE Ohio it is running from $150 -$400 per cord delivered.
I have been getting about a cord from tree services delivered for $50 - generally have to do a bit of cutting and it is not split.
Emerald Ash borer is preventing firewood from coming in from outside of my County - I believe most counties west of me are quarantined.



Ohio's EAB Quarantine & Regulations

Summary of "Quarantine"

It is illegal to move ash trees, ash logs, ash branches, ash wood chips, ash bark, and all hardwood firewood out of Ohio's quarantined areas. These materials can move freely within, but cannot leave, contiguous quarantined areas. See Rule 901:5-56-03.
Note: A federal quarantine prohibits the movement of ash tree materials and hardwood firewood out of the state of Ohio without federal certification. This does not change Ohio's quarantine, which still makes it illegal to take ash tree materials and hardwood firewood out of infested counties.
Quarantine, Compliance, and Firewood Movement Fact Sheets

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Oops, my bad. Thats a heaping pick-up load, works out to be about $100 a cord.

But I still get oak talings from the local sawmill at $25 a load. I pick it after the first hard frost cause of the carpenter bees ...

But it burns real fast, small slabs and chunks.

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Mtn Man

Are the Stayman's still crisp and sweet in your neck of the woods?

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i don't buy any i cut my own so i checked my local craigslist and a cord of cut and split delivered spruce was going for $160.00.

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mtn how many cord in a load that big do you get out of it

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To tell the truth, I don't know. I cut as needed, about three weeks worth at a time. I keep about three years ahead on logs, that way they're dry. I've had the same question a few weeks ago (in a weak moment I though about cutting wood for sale), a friend that used to make firewood for a living was by so I asked him how many cords in a load. He said about 10 cords in a 22-23 ton load.

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hell i may have to start getting some like that may just make some money that way when times are slow , thnaks mtn man

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$125 per cord. Alder/Fir mix. Delivered.

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That was funny, but I think they're ignoring you....:shine::9536:

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mtnmanis this a good stove , we are looking at , thinking about buying it http://www.kitchenqueenstoves.com/ki...ves/index.html

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Mtnman:

About 8 1/2 to 9 cords in 22-23 ton load. White oak = 5600lbs/cord ( green ) Hickory slightly more, red/chestnut oak slightly less.

Cord of wood calculator

I've bought a load that way from time to time.....whole lot of wood !

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Thats a bad a$$ calculator andy thanks!

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Biggest pain in the ass in trying to buy wood by the cord:

Advertiser: Firewood, $50/cord
Ash: That's a good price, I'll bring the pickup truck and the trailer.
Advertiser: It'll fit in a pickup.
Ash: A cord won't fit in the pickup.
Advertiser: It's 4' x 8' x 16", it will fit.
Ash: You said a cord for $50.
Advertiser: Yep, 1 cord.
Ash: That's a face cord.
Advertiser: Yep, 1 cord
Ash: It's 1/3 of a cord
Advertiser: No, it's 1 cord.
Ash: No, a cord is 4' x 4' x 8'. It's 128 cubic feet. It won't fit in my truck.
Advertiser: Ohhh, you mean a (bush/country/bigass/monster/godzilla) cord. No, I got 1 cord here, $50.
Ash: (Puts gun to his own temple and shoots himself in the brain.)

Around here a cord can mean basically anything. I've seen 8 small logs laying on someone's walkway advertised as "1/2 cord". A face cord seems to be 4' x 4' x something", where something changes depending on the seller. A real cord is almost always prefaced by some other term that makes it sound bigger than a cord. Occasionally you'll see an add for firewood by the Quart.

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:rofl: wow

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Some state regulate what a "Cord" is.
"The only legal measurement and representation of firewood is a "cord" and fractional parts of a cord or cubic meter. A cord is the amount of firewood contained in 128 cubic feet of space when the firewood is tightly stacked. A cord of firewood is a pile which measures 4 feet wide, 4 feet high, and 8 feet long. But whatever the dimensions of the pile is, it must be equivalent to 128 cubic feet of tightly stacked firewood to be equal to one cord.

Prohibited terms of selling firewood are "face cord," "rack," "pile," "truckload" or similar language. Such terms are not to be used when advertising, offering for sale, or selling firewood."
http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/MSD/fuel_facts.shtml

BTW Thanks for the calculator TN..Andy

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OMG !!! That's so funny !!!!
( All this talk of cord wood reminds me of when my dad was always trying to
figure out board foot !! None of it ever made any sense to me ! )
Anyways, in SW PA a cord is around $160- $200
Frequently you'll get the city folks that come and buy it and take it back to the city and sell it for WAY MORE. Huh.

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A few factoids relevant to this thread:

Usually, a cord is a stack 8 ft long, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet deep.
However you stack it, it's 128 cubic ft.

A cord of good, dry hardwood is equal in Btu content to
about 4 barrels of oil or about 160 gallons.
With fuel oil at $2 gallon, a cord of wood is equal to $320 equivalent oil.

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Just got ripped off and paid $300 (can) for a cord of firewood, at the place I will go when the world comes to an end. I left it to late in the season the guy said, I noticed when he delivered and I stacked it, that it was just over a cord, but $300? I was stuck, I had no wood and it's cold up in Canada now ( Nothern Ontario). I am not sure if all the wood is dried out either. How can I tell if it's dry by looking at it? How can I dry it further? Thanks FACT.

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Sometimes you get lucky. I just finished picking up next year's firewood for a $47 bottle of vodka (Ketel One). It was a lot of work and I have a lot of splitting and stacking to do next spring. A friends dad took down a huge maple and said I could haul away whatever I wanted - he even cut it into large pieces for me. I'm estimating its 4 cords of wood.

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I've got pert near an unlimited supply of firewood about 20 feet from where I park my truck at work. Custom cut mill that does mostly doug fir. All timber ends that that are about 1 cu ft and bigger go to the firewood pile. Killer is I don't have a fireplace.

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Then take it and sell it... use the money for gas, oil, whatever you heat the house with.
In the UK we don't measure it by cords, it's by the "bag" of normally green logs, useless.
I measure it by the tree. Drop the trees, log it, stack the boat with it, then drive home with it. My boiler runs on kerosene, so it's always hot to touch - I stack the split logs next to it to dry. They burn great, a lot of silverbirch on the island.

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Your friend's dad has excellent taste in Vodka as well! Maple should burn for a good long time...