Amusing CL ad - new measurement method

I'm always tempted to email sellers and say, "If someone offers you $20 for that, take it."

Amazing what people think they have in their yards.

Hey, great deal there!! Wood is cut, seasoned and there's "tons" of it....
Wait, it ain't split yet, so it AIN'T seasoned.....and "tons", to me, means at bare minimum 4,000lbs.....I don't see it fellas....

Some people just crack me up. I wish I was closer, I'd call that guy and tell him I'd take that wood if he paid ME $500.00!!

This guy is selling by the ton. http://maine.craigslist.org/hsh/4041397218.html slightly different spin on it. Maybe a little pricey, but he's honest about it being green wood and not seasoned.

StuckInTheMuck said:

This guy is selling by the ton. http://maine.craigslist.org/hsh/4041397218.html slightly different spin on it. Maybe a little pricey, but he's honest about it being green wood and not seasoned.

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Beech is one of the heaviest woods when green, and it dries to a fairly light weight.......off of the top of my head, he's getting a big premium on that wood. No way do I see a fair
deal for the buyer here. Ask him to season it first....THEN it'd be a fair deal.

Scotty Overkill said:

Beech is one of the heaviest woods when green, and it dries to a fairly light weight....

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I think you're mistaken here. At 12% MC, the specific gravity of American beech (0.64) is right in-between white (0.68) and red (0.63) oaks. I've only worked with it as lumber, not firewood, so I don't have direct experience with the wet stuff, but the USFLP document "Specific Gravity and Other Properties of Wood and Bark" puts typical green MC at only 55%.

Jon1270 said:

I think you're mistaken here. At 12% MC, the specific gravity of American beech (0.64) is right in-between white (0.68) and red (0.63) oaks. I've only worked with it as lumber, not firewood, so I don't have direct experience with the wet stuff, but the USFLP document "Specific Gravity and Other Properties of Wood and Bark" puts typical green MC at only 55%.

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you could be right, don't take what I said as Gospel.......but I handled a TON of beech just a couple months back, and I gotta tell you that beech, when its green, sure as heck seems to weigh alot more than any oak I've handled......

I split it up medium sized (4x4" to 5x5"), and its lost quite a bit of weight already.....I'm guessing at least a third of its green weight. And I've used a little of it in the firepit already, burns pretty good for having been just split a few months ago (I'd never burn it in the stove that soon, though)

schlot said:

Cords...schmords. Tons are where its at! I think this is thistles area- maybe he has $500 burning hole in his pocket?


http://desmoines.craigslist.org/for/4042652320.html

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I wonder if he'd consider selling just a face ton.......................

I think a decimal point is missing, if not wishfull thinking is in play.

schlot said:

Cords...schmords. Tons are where its at! I think this is thistles area- maybe he has $500 burning hole in his pocket?


http://desmoines.craigslist.org/for/4042652320.html

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Oh my, I just might have to make the trip to capital city!

Maybe a bunch of us could e-mail him and get into a fake bidding war. Make these people think they under priced it.

Must be "IRONWOOD"