Bummer.

kopeck · Feb 15, 2014

Just ran out of wood. Well not completely but I want to keep some for an emergency.

I have some that's mostly seasoned. I'm thinking of bringing it in (I use pallets) and let it sit in the nice warm basement and see if it drys out enough to use in a bit. My modine heater is right by my wood storage so I get good air circulation.

I burned considerable more this year then I did the last two. I've made sure I won't be in the same position next year. At least I'm through the coldest part of the winter.

Oh well, the oil man will be happy.

K

flyingcow · Feb 15, 2014

Drive up here I will put a pallet of 20 inch maple/beech on your pickup.

GENECOP · Feb 15, 2014

This winter is really stretching itself out, how about hitting up a neighbor, you can replace it next season....

kopeck · Feb 15, 2014

flyingcow said:
Drive up here I will put a pallet of 20 inch maple/beech on your pickup.

I think I could buy oil for less.

Last seasoned firewood I saw on CL was going for $300 plus a cord. Supply and demand I suppose.

I do have a whole pile of live edge ash boards that I'm thinking about making into firewood, I just need to dig them out of a snow bank.

K

webie · Feb 15, 2014

Honestly what could saving some wood for an emergency be ?? I would just burn it all . Burning wood in an emergency would be burning less than desirable wood maybe not quite dry wood would be burning in an emeregncy and I would do that verses paying the gas man .

joescho · Feb 15, 2014

I don't think I'm going to make it either. However I've got lots of pellets for the pellet stove...

Coal Reaper · Feb 16, 2014

I will be out of this winters allotment by the end of the month. Will have to tap into next years stack when the snow melts enough that i can get to it. Theres ash cherry and silver maple at the top.

kopeck · Feb 16, 2014

webie said:
Honestly what could saving some wood for an emergency be ?? I would just burn it all . Burning wood in an emergency would be burning less than desirable wood maybe not quite dry wood would be burning in an emeregncy and I would do that verses paying the gas man .

What I have saved right now is seasoned. If the power goes out it will be fed to the parlor stove or the cook stove.

There was wood heat before gasification.

K

kopeck · Feb 16, 2014

joescho said:
I don't think I'm going to make it either. However I've got lots of pellets for the pellet stove...

I'm thinking about seeing what a pallet of Bio Bricks goes for. From what I read a pallet is equal to about a cord of wood BTU wise. That and I could mix my less then ideal wood with the Bio Bricks.

The only price I could find was in MA and they were $280 a pallet which would still be less then fuel oil although not as good a deal as the cord wood that costs me labor and some gas.

K

maple1 · Feb 16, 2014

I'm burning crappier wood this winter, and it's been colder - but I think I'm burning less of it. I'm fully depleting storage before lighting, and not charging it as high - nothing scientifically proven, but I really think it made a pretty big difference in my wood consumption.

DZL_Damon · Feb 16, 2014

kopeck said:
I'm thinking about seeing what a pallet of Bio Bricks goes for. From what I read a pallet is equal to about a cord of wood BTU wise. That and I could mix my less then ideal wood with the Bio Bricks.

The only price I could find was in MA and they were $280 a pallet which would still be less then fuel oil although not as good a deal as the cord wood that costs me labor and some gas.

K

I got a whole mix of those on Christmas for my mother who does not prepare well at ALL with her wood. I got her about a ton of all type and she liked them, but MAN are they expensive. $280 a pallet would actually be quite a steal for what I paid, it was north of $300 I'm sure.

I went to get her some more last week and only 1 brand of the 6 I got for her to sample last Christmas was available! I think a lot of wood burners are going this route this winter as they run out and the oil/gas prices soar.

A great thing is, they take up very little room. I got 1/2 a ton in her woodbox upstairs that would ordinarily only take 4 or 5 good armloads.

kopeck · Feb 16, 2014

DZL_Damon said:
I got a whole mix of those on Christmas for my mother who does not prepare well at ALL with her wood. I got her about a ton of all type and she liked them, but MAN are they expensive. $280 a pallet would actually be quite a steal for what I paid, it was north of $300 I'm sure.
I went to get her some more last week and only 1 brand of the 6 I got for her to sample last Christmas was available! I think a lot of wood burners are going this route this winter as they run out and the oil/gas prices soar.
A great thing is, they take up very little room. I got 1/2 a ton in her woodbox upstairs that would ordinarily only take 4 or 5 good armloads.

Oy! Well, it could be an old price I'm looking at.

If it's to much north of $300 I'll just burn oil.

I had planned based on the first two years I had my Tarm. I'm happy I if I make it through March, once April rolls around I'm OK burning some oil. I'm off by over a month.

I added an extra cord this winter. It's split and waiting for next year.

K

DZL_Damon · Feb 16, 2014

kopeck said:
Oy! Well, it could be an old price I'm looking at.

If it's to much north of $300 I'll just burn oil.

I had planned based on the first two years I had my Tarm. I'm happy I if I make it through March, once April rolls around I'm OK burning some oil. I'm off by over a month.

I added an extra cord this winter. It's split and waiting for next year.

K

That's one of the reason why I switched from wood to pellets.... wood that is cut, split, delivered is $250/cord.... or tree length delivered is $180... not much of a savings.

Pellets are $200/ton but I finagled $177/ton this year. Of course if I could cut my own wood that would be a different story. I don't know where you are, but I saw adds in Southern Maine for $280/ton for bio brick (or similar) as well. But in the Ellsworth area it was a bit more.

skfire · Feb 16, 2014

maple1 said:
I'm burning crappier wood this winter, and it's been colder - but I think I'm burning less of it. I'm fully depleting storage before lighting, and not charging it as high - nothing scientifically proven, but I really think it made a pretty big difference in my wood consumption.

ditto, same procedure, same results, drain to 100, charge to 185/150. Less wood, but still more than last year, due to much colder winter.

kopeck · Feb 16, 2014

DZL_Damon said:
That's one of the reason why I switched from wood to pellets.... wood that is cut, split, delivered is $250/cord.... or tree length delivered is $180... not much of a savings.
Pellets are $200/ton but I finagled $177/ton this year. Of course if I could cut my own wood that would be a different story. I don't know where you are, but I saw adds in Southern Maine for $280/ton for bio brick (or similar) as well. But in the Ellsworth area it was a bit more.

I cut my own so the biggest thing I'm out is my own time.

I'm in the Midcoast, I'll have to call around. $280 wouldn't be all that bad.

K

maple1 · Feb 16, 2014

skfire said:
ditto, same procedure, same results, drain to 100, charge to 185/150. Less wood, but still more than last year, due to much colder winter.

Last year I was lighting to try to prevent my storage getting much below 140. This year I'm lighting when my house starts losing temp. Depending on the day, storage is about 130/115 when it gets to that point, with our slantfin baseboard. If I get it up to 180/165, that's usually enough - last year I was going to 190/175 or so. Of course if I will be out for a while I can still drive it higher if needed.

Downeast Farmer · Feb 16, 2014

Dean Young in Franklin is $100 per tree-length cord for rock maple; Guptils in Machias is $90 for red maple, though he may not go as far as Ellsworth. Young will, I feel certain.

WiscWoody · Feb 16, 2014

Your wood out east sounds expensive! No wander you run out.

kopeck · Feb 16, 2014

Downeast Farmer said:
Dean Young in Franklin is $100 per tree-length cord for rock maple; Guptils in Machias is $90 for red maple, though he may not go as far as Ellsworth. Young will, I feel certain.

I have plenty of greenwood, the problems is the seasoned wood.

K

flyingcow · Feb 16, 2014

The $100 weighted cord is my cut off on buying truckloads. A 60,000lb load will stack up to about 10 1/4 cords. I've got a local guy who will deliver it all processed for $185. Thats all rock maple/beech.

Seriously, kopeck, on the odd chance you get up this way, I'll plop a 1/2 cord on back of a pickup. Should be in the %20 or less MC. I can spare one pallet.

kopeck · Feb 16, 2014

flyingcow said:
Seriously, kopeck, on the odd chance you get up this way, I'll plop a 1/2 cord on back of a pickup. Should be in the %20 or less MC. I can spare one pallet.

I'm heading to the County in a few days but I won't have my pickup truck. I do appreciate your very generous offer though.

K

webie · Feb 16, 2014

I typically have my winter stash all inside by late August - September . But because of circumstances this year doing some work on the heating system that took longer than expected we were unable to bring much in before winter hit , In fact we barely had half our years supply in . I have been lucky though because of the changes and the recent fixing of my termovar my wood consumption has dropped , in fact Its looking like I will use less this year than last year . I just loaded a trailer load out of my emergency stash that I packed away in the pole shed 5 years ago and backed that in the garage , I expecting that load to make it to middle of March . I have about 10 full cord out in the back forty that was a year old this past fall but its kinda buried in 2 feet of snow right now . Thanks to the solo 60 my wood use is down by 1/3 from the 12 full cord I use to burn .

timberr · Feb 16, 2014

Two weeks ago my neighbor who has a wood stove came home with a pallet of bio-bricks, I haven;t seen him yet to ask how much that cost. I still have 2.5 cds, looking forward to vacation in April!

DZL_Damon · Feb 16, 2014

WiscWoody said:
Your wood out east sounds expensive! No wander you run out.

I'm in an isolated area of Downeast Maine for insane pricing for everything... not everyone out here has to pay so much as the ones so close to the National Park!

I always picked my own wood from left over slash piles from my camp land owned by paper companies with blessings from the local wood cutters since I would never touched their finished piles. The past few years, my camp's land has been put in to a conservatory so the slash piles no longer exist. I purchased wood for a few years for $250/cord. If I just went to Bangor it would be below $200.

WiscWoody · Feb 16, 2014

DZL_Damon said:
I'm in an isolated area of Downeast Maine for insane pricing for everything... not everyone out here has to pay so much as the ones so close to the National Park!

I always picked my own wood from left over slash piles from my camp land owned by paper companies with blessings from the local wood cutters since I would never touched their finished piles. The past few years, my camp's land has been put in to a conservatory so the slash piles no longer exist. I purchased wood for a few years for $250/cord. If I just went to Bangor it would be below $200.

If you do the bucking and splitting up here a truckload 10 cord of poles run $850. That's the cheapest way besides going into logged land for tops and other junk. And then there is scrounging which is easy up here. That's what I do. I've never paid for wood yet and last fall I had 12 cords C/S/S but I have the time to do it.

Bummer.

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