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10-17-2012, 12:40 PM #101yelgatgab
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$200 a cord is pricey, $450 is crazy.
Everything is pricey here, and we pay $100 for a loaded dump bed (just shy of a cord) of a bone-dry mix. Little bit of pine, some maple, beech, oak. Found a card the previous owners of our house had left. That guy wanted $85 for the same. The house isn't set up to be heated with wood, so we didn't burn much the first couple of winters. Just dumped a bunch of money on a heat pump last year, so now we don't burn much at all. But, at $85/~cord, I would have kept buying it. My 5 year-old daughter can swing a maul for shit.
Fond memories of splitting wood with the old man, though. We lived in a pretty nice neighborhood in town, so it must have looked pretty funny seeing us splitting wood on the front lawn, or on the side of the street when we could get the hydraulic splitter from his friend.Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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10-17-2012, 09:49 PM #103
Now THAT is badass!
I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.
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10-18-2012, 07:54 AM #104Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
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10-18-2012, 07:57 AM #105
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10-18-2012, 12:06 PM #106
He has everthing but the truck, skidder, processor ( excavator with a fancy thng that can grab and cut to exact lengths) but gets other people to do the lauling. He sells from his land landing wood for firewood and sometimes buys a load himself. Way to far for firewood from Golden but there must be a way to get stuff from closer.
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10-18-2012, 12:47 PM #107Registered User
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10-18-2012, 12:51 PM #108
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10-18-2012, 01:39 PM #109Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
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10-18-2012, 03:21 PM #110
Problem here , well at least for friend is a storage of truckers. It was a real bottleneck for him this year when he was trying to get out 200 loads. Was also shipping to Revie as even after extra shipping was paying more.
I'll ask what firewood sells at landing.
One would think a way to do it using that skid steer cutting splitting machine would be to fill an open top container and deliver to final location. A 40 footer should hold 15 cords though a 20ft might be easier to move around. Though that would start to require capital invsetment.
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10-18-2012, 04:26 PM #111Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
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10-18-2012, 07:35 PM #112
I've got way more than I need, but I can still cut through November (wx and road closures depending) and have a good stash. Hard to resist. I'd hate to go back in the spring and discover some other dirtbag got MY wood. My wife says I have issues.....
I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.
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10-18-2012, 07:50 PM #113
I am hacking away at my pile. I'll take some photos next week. So far my back shoulders and arms feel good. Maybe 20% cut split and stacked.
If the shocker don't rock her, then Dr. Spock her. Dad.
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10-18-2012, 08:56 PM #114Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
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10-18-2012, 09:32 PM #115
had a borrowed splitter for a while - kinda felt like cheating - back to the maul - my neighbor uses a little maul and a small sledge - I prefer swinging the big one
I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.
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10-18-2012, 11:58 PM #116
Cutting and splitting 1-2 cords a day this time of year. Pretty good money if you don't mind the labor.
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10-19-2012, 06:38 AM #117
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10-19-2012, 11:15 AM #118Registered User
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When I was working with a climber/faller here on the Shore most of our work was in the British Properties, many of the people we cut for didn't want the wood. So we would split it and we had about three spots around the area that we would dump the wood. We'd dump 2 to 3 full pick-up loads of good split wood 4 days a week. Seems that enough people had figured out where we dumped and each pile would be gone in a day or two.
If someone really wanted the cheap wood they could track down the guy I worked for (I've since lost his number) and get lots of free wood. Truck and a trailer would haul plenty up to Whistler to sell at a premium.
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10-19-2012, 02:27 PM #119Registered User
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Thats just sick IMO, up here fire wood isn't a mom n apple pie thing and it ain't free cuz you gotta invest some time & money to harvest it so fire wood =money ... get it anyway you can cheap as you can without wrecking too much gear or hurting too many body parts
This house has no wood stove so I no long have to do the wood harvest every year and after a furnace/insulation upgrade it costs me 1200-1500$ a year and zero effort
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10-19-2012, 06:39 PM #120Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
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10-19-2012, 07:24 PM #121Registered User
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10-19-2012, 09:05 PM #122
At the in-laws place- built the little shed out of scrap from a new garage and filled it up with snags and deadfall from around the property. Pretty good day's work and I am now the unquestioned #1 son-in-law.
I spend a lot of vacation time doing work outside other people's summer houses. Gotta have a hobby.
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10-19-2012, 10:06 PM #123
otherwise you are in the house chatting with folks that you'd rather not be chatting with
it's half the reason I cook at every event - I stay busy - I can drink - people stay outta my way
good on you lad - nice woodI didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either.
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10-20-2012, 09:48 AM #124Registered User
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10-22-2012, 08:27 AM #125
Maybe this has already been discussed but any of you ever buy a firewood permit from the Forest Service? Just did it for the first time this year and it worked out nicely. $10/cord and the wood is just laying there on the side of the road (mainly from clearing I think). A lot of it is pretty big (20" +dia) so you have to do some splitting on site, it's slow going on the FS roads and most is pretty green but still a great deal. Two spots in western WA (North Bend & Enumclaw) but I'm assuming they do it elsewhere. My F150 and little trailer could only handle about 1.5 cords so I'm heading up again next weekend. I think I have enough to last me this winter so this will be seasoned beautifully by next fall. These parts it's almost all doug fir.
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