Good to hear. Get your wood cut yet?

 

i'd have to say yes!



thats the split pile so far..
and its all red oak..
heres the unsplit pile...



i'm ready...

...zap!

 

How'd you come up with that stacking system?

 

Yea I havent even started........ I've got about a cord left from last year.... need another cord or 2 and I'll be good. Need to find a log splitter....... I've got a HUGE black jack that would finissh me out that got taken in a storm..... But I'll be danged if I'm going to even try to split that with a maul.

 

i call it the "wherever it lands" system...

just as long as it lands on the pallets...

...zap!

 

Chopping your own wood . . .

I can't even imagine that. (Us damn city-folk)

Here in Lost Angeles most people will buy a "bundle" of wood at the grocery store.

There are a few places that sell cords, one actually where you can order online and have it delievered to you. I'm afraid to wonder what a cord of wood would cost out where hillbillys like Mag live. Probably nothing. Here, at that place you can order online the prices are as follows:



Almost a grand for a cord of Hickory . . . . I'm sorry, but I just can't see burning wood at that price. Besides, it rarely gets cold enough to have a fire in the fireplace.

 

Hickory mesquite and almond are used to bar b que and smoke meats. Oak is used ussually more on the east coast. Each region uses what ever is most abundant natively.

Here it is hickory.

Further south is mesquite

Here we only use oak for heat.... (I can't even imagine using it to cook for flavor, it does not smell good to me at all.)

As far as price, a few years ago I was getting $1000 for a 20' goosneck with two cords of red oak on it in Oklahoma and $2000 if it was hickory. Locally it's goes for about $120 a cord regardless of what wood it is.

I was buying what they call kull logs from the local saw mills by the semi load (litterally). A kull log is one that is hollow, twisted or to knotted to use for lumber. In other words saw mill waste. They'd bring me one or two semi trailers a week of logs and dump it on my site. I'd pull my trailer next to the pile of logs, pull the log splitter up between the pile and teh trailer and go ot work. I could have 2 cords cut up, split and loaded on my trailer in about 2 hours. Even selling locally that is about $75 bucks an hour after the cost of the wood for me to buy, and the gas to cut it, split it and haul it.

I'm just plain to lazy now......

 

I smell a moneymaking opportunity here... You've got a poor starving college boy here who needs to work...

 

Well . . . here you go . . .




Not a lot of overhead to get yourself started in this business.

In today's world of stupid and worthless titles to make people feel better about their dreary, worthless lives, you can call yourself a Lumber Conversion Engineer.

 

Damn...so you're telliing me instead of going to this school for Mechanical Engineering that I could have gone to Lowe's, bought an axe, and gotten a Lumber Conversion Engineering degree for FREE with the purchase of the axe? WOW

 

When I lived in OKC we used to pay about $35 for what they called a Rick which was 1/3 of a cord. That was for hickory, split and delivered but not necessary seasoned. I've thinned out my oak trees over the years and split my own with a wedge and sometimes an axe. It's a real b-tch when you swing that axe and miss the log and chopping block. You either do a funny dance or lose your leg. But I don't heat with wood. I just like to fire up our fireplace in the winter and heat the outdoors.

 

Yup, pretty much. Didn't you see this weekend's ad?

 

WOW!!!

i cant believe the wood prices...

i get all mine for "free"
meaning if i take the trees down then i can have all the wood..
and there are plenty of people that will let me do it..
rather than paying a "pro" 500$ to take one tree down..


but i'll only take down trees that have no way of falling on houses..power lines..etc..and i dont take down pine..
you cant burn it...

thats the main reason why i have a dumptruck!!

...zap!

 

I've split many a cord when I was younger but, I have a gas fireplace now.

I gave away four cord of Oak after our last hurricane.

Around here a cord of Oak (split/delivered) is about $150

 

Free woood come to buffalo