Look like a full cord?

[Eureka]

Does this look like it’ll be a full cord?

 

[Raithi]

Is that your rig? I gotta get a knuckle boom like that; what is it a prentice?

 

[Eureka]

Is that your rig? I gotta get a knuckle boom like that; what is it a prentice?

No just a load I got delivered

 

[WiscWoody]

No just a load I got delivered

How much? I’d guess a grand. Is it mostly Maple? And maybe a little bit of Poplar from the looks of it.

 

[Raithi]

Dig it. One of these days I will run across a cheap kboom for my 5 ton. I need to be pulling loads of logs like that.

 

[Eureka]

How much? I’d guess a grand. Is it mostly Maple? And maybe a little bit of Poplar from the looks of it.

Matter of fact, it was all either red or white oak (pretty much all white) and 2 random sticks of paper birch. I’ve only split a little bit but it’s all nice sized with no rounds being too heavy to lift. $950 from a local logger, 10-12 cords and well worth it for me to get ahead from the comfort of my own firewood processing area

 

[WiscWoody]

Matter of fact, it was all either red or white oak (pretty much all white) and 2 random sticks of paper birch. I’ve only split a little bit but it’s all nice sized with no rounds being too heavy to lift. $950 from a local logger, 10-12 cords and well worth it for me to get ahead from the comfort of my own firewood processing area

Nice! Some of my neighbors buy truck loads like that from the local loggers but it’s usually Maple with a little pop at times since there’s not much oak here in Winter but there is in the Hayward area and when I go to Rice Lake on 48 there miles and miles of nothing but oak filled woodlands. I scrounge all of my wood but when I see someone get a load like that it makes me drool a bit lol. Nice buy!

 

[Tar12]

Matter of fact, it was all either red or white oak (pretty much all white) and 2 random sticks of paper birch. I’ve only split a little bit but it’s all nice sized with no rounds being too heavy to lift. $950 from a local logger, 10-12 cords and well worth it for me to get ahead from the comfort of my own firewood processing area

There are times that I would like to see a big rig roll up with a load like that..

 

[Eureka]

This is the first time I have purchased wood but also the first time I’ve had the space to store and work with it. We moved and built a new house last year so I’m starting from scratch, and going a little overboard. I scrounged enough dry elm for this winter off my fence lines but after seeing this guy’s newspaper ad for months I finally called him and 5 days later I’m set for 3-4 years. No driving, no branches, and I can cut when I feel like it. Wanted to give this a try and I now definitely see the appeal.

Funny thing is I still want some softer woods and need it for next year while this hoard of oak dries, so I’ve got some cutting planned out in the woods at a friend’s where he has more standing dead elm than I could ever burn.

Gotta have a hobby!

 

[Eureka]

For your viewing pleasure

This was in November before I bought the load.. I pulled home 4 trailers like that, 80” logs. I have a skidsteer and loaded with that but these jumbo rounds are tough to work up even if I do get 20 splits out of one. One might ask why I bought a load of logs and to that I say why not. I have a very stressful job and firewood processing has always been a release for me. It’s been fun being able to process so much wood so easily and have space to stack it like it should be. I’ll get a more recent pic of the pile it got longer..

 

[Wickets]

$950???/ isnt that like stealing?

I wish i could buy wood like that. I wonder what they would charge to deliver to NJ LOL

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

My dad is in the same boat. Moved back this summer and we have scrounged enough to get him through. He is buying a log load from our logger friends before the ground thaws and 3 cords of verifiably dry wood from a local tree company who has a large kiln. We can get him another two cords of stuff that will be ready by next winter as he needs 5/yr. Like you he can process as time affords and get at least a year of drying on the log load. 12 cords of oak is a pretty sweet deal.

 

[WiscWoody]

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This was in November before I bought the load.. I pulled home 4 trailers like that, 80” logs. I have a skidsteer and loaded with that but these jumbo rounds are tough to work up even if I do get 20 splits out of one. One might ask why I bought a load of logs and to that I say why not. I have a very stressful job and firewood processing has always been a release for me. It’s been fun being able to process so much wood so easily and have space to stack it like it should be. I’ll get a more recent pic of the pile it got longer..

Wow, those are some big logs there! It gives that Duramax diesel something big to pull huh?

 

[jetsam]

Tree services will often bring you a load for free. They can only process and sell so much (if they do firewood at all), and are often looking to get rid of a truckload from their latest job. (On the other hand, you don't get to pick when or what kind of wood you get.)

 

[WiscWoody]

Tree services will often bring you a load for free. They can only process and sell so much (if they do firewood at all), and are often looking to get rid of a truckload from their latest job. (On the other hand, you don't get to pick when or what kind of wood you get.)

I should call the tree guy down the highway up here but there’s so many who burn wood up here I’d think that many have already asked them. But it wouldn’t hurt to ask I guess....

 

[vtwoodheater]

Nice. I bought a tractor trailer load 3 years ago. Just for reference, that truck was piled to the top of the bunks and stacked out at 10.5 cords. I paid $1,000. It is really nice having a pile in one spot, process at your leisure, quickly.

 

[Eureka]

Wow, those are some big logs there! It gives that Duramax diesel something big to pull huh?

Yeah those were some heavy loads, I’d guess close to 15k. I just know my 7k skidsteer felt like a lawnmower back there on the way home after unloading the logs. Duramax didn’t even flinch and wanted more

 

[Eureka]

I should call the tree guy down the highway up here but there’s so many who burn wood up here I’d think that many have already asked them. But it wouldn’t hurt to ask I guess....

The tree services around me all seem to sell firewood as a side business. I’ve seen some advertised for ok prices but I don’t know what you get. Could be crap yard trees. $400 for 4-6 cord mixed hardwoods is what I usually see advertised so I went with the sure thing.

 

[weatherguy]

The tree services around me all seem to sell firewood as a side business. I’ve seen some advertised for ok prices but I don’t know what you get. Could be crap yard trees. $400 for 4-6 cord mixed hardwoods is what I usually see advertised so I went with the sure thing.

Around me too, they all know they can make a few extra bucks and won' give it awsg.

 

[firefighterjake]

Same here . . . tree companies either just take it down and leave it for the landowner who typically either wants it himself or has friends and neighbors who want the wood, they take it back to process or in the case of the City where I work bring it to the transfer station where a private contractor chips it for bio-fuel.

 

[WiscWoody]

That why I’ve never called the tree guy down the highway, I figured someone has already spoke for the wood or he sells it and I’ve never had a problem just scrounging my own free wood.

 

[sportbikerider78]

I did the math for me and it would only save me $10 a FC if I had a log load delivered vs split delivered. Not worth it for prices around here.

 

[Eureka]

I did the math for me and it would only save me $10 a FC if I had a log load delivered vs split delivered. Not worth it for prices around here.

Other than the occasional good deal one might come across here, the going rate for a cord of green cut and split is $325-375. I see it as high as $500 delivered for “dry” firewood in the Twin Cities area. Guess it shows the local demand pretty clearly.

 

[Eureka]

Here’s my main pile as it looks today. Every 8 ft is a cord. I just started a new stack across the yard to begin working up the big load I got. By summer I should have 18-20 cords split and stacked.
I actually have very little wood ready for next year because it’s 50/50 red and white oak in my stacks mostly green. I’m starting a separate stack to get some softwoods and dead elm seasoned over the summer for 2018-19.

 

[sportbikerider78]

Other than the occasional good deal one might come across here, the going rate for a cord of green cut and split is $325-375. I see it as high as $500 delivered for “dry” firewood in the Twin Cities area. Guess it shows the local demand pretty clearly.

Yeah..it just varies so much that it is almost impossible to discuss on a nationwide forum.

Around here, cord is $150-180 split anytime other than the dead of winter.