bsj425 said:
bogydave said:
We cut wood on the borough lands it is far cheaper for the cutting permit than the state lands. It is only 5 bucks a cord with a 20 cord max per year and that is pretty much on the honor system. You can also get permits for FREE from the army and air force base for cutting on military land.
I thought $10/cord was good,
, $5/cord is better, FREE/cord is best :lol:
Good to know,I have a relatives there, I'll pass that on.
Good things are, with the price of gasoline the closest one to you will be the best & you have several cutting areas.
We have 2, one in Willow & one just North of Palmer. For me, Willow is $45 round trip, Palmer about $15. So $25/cord of birch is best I can do here. Palmer area, the easy stuff is gone, so I've been skidding it to the trailer/truck to get it. More work, but fun work.
I do like FREE fire wood, just how much Free costs, varies.
How much wood do you have stored up?
I have about 10 cord now with about 4 or 5 of it c/s/s the rest is in log/round form
Is most of the wood in the cutting areas birch?
mostly birch with some stands of spruce by the rivers
Easy access into the areas & close to the wood?
Insanely easy can fit fullsize truck + 12ft trailer right next to the wood. The place I get most of mine BLM cut a fire barrier this summer so there are literally thousands of trees down and limbed in nice stacks about every 200 yards for about 12 miles long. I have been making about 2-3 trips a month all summer to there getting just over a cord each time and still havent made a dent in the first stack. Just cut to length throw on trailer come home split and stack no felling trees no limbing nothing there is easily 100+cord down there in nice stacks.