Talked to my logger today, and he could bring me a load of all hardwood, hard maple, oak,and beech. 7-8 cords.

[Itslay90]

Talked to my logger today, and he could bring me a load of all hardwood, hard maple, oak,and beech. 7-8 cords.

 

[qwee]

A good deal if the price is right and you have time and room.

 

[Itslay90]

A good deal if the price is right and you have time and room.

Yes, $850

 

[stoveliker]

I'd do it if you have the space, tools,.and ability to process and stack it.
It'd be too much for me.

 

[ScottLewis]

What a deal!

 

[Itslay90]

What a deal!

Yeah I’m just trying to see if I should just get all hard maple.

 

[MRD1985]

Great deal, that’s a lot of wood to process in one shot

 

[ScottLewis]

I prefer oak. I got a truckload of maple once, it was very hard to split.

 

[Itslay90]

I prefer oak. I got a truckload of maple once, it was very hard to split.

I thought oak was hard to split? What splitter do you have ?

 

[stoveliker]

In my experience oak is by far the easiest to split of all wood I've split (maples, beech, red and white oak, locust, dogwood, pine, spruce, cherry, catalpa, cedar, sassafras, fir, ash - though sassafras, locust, and beech come close (when straight grained)).

 

[ScottLewis]

I'm splitting white oak, it splits easy. I'm using a Fiskars maul for the big pieces.

 

[Itslay90]

I'm splitting white oak, it splits easy. I'm using a Fiskars maul for the big pieces.

Oh, i have a log. Splitter

 

[tymbee]

Given we basically have an unlimited supply of firewood on the property, I only bought a truckload of logs one time. Was intended to go to a neighbor but when he couldn't take it, I had it delivered here. All oak logs which to my surprise the logger said was actually harder for him to sell that time of year (Fall) given how long it takes oak to season out compared to other common species around here such as maple, ash, beech, cherry etc.

Dropped it off one afternoon and by noon the next day it looked like this:

Huh?! What's that?!? You don't believe I cut, split and stacked all those logs in a day ? 😱

Well ok, I may be exaggerating just a wee bit.

 

[ScottLewis]

I'm looking up the BTU rating. Maple is all over the map, some species are 18 million BTU/cord, some are 25 million.
White oak is the best firewood I can get and it is 27 million.
What kind of splitter do you have?

 

[Itslay90]

I'm looking up the BTU rating. Maple is all over the map, some species are 18 million BTU/cord, some are 25 million.
White oak is the best firewood I can get and it is 27 million.
What kind of splitter do you have?

Champion 27 log splitter

 

[Itslay90]

Given we basically have an unlimited supply of firewood on the property, I only bought a truckload of logs one time. Was intended to go to a neighbor but when he couldn't take it, I had it delivered here. All oak logs which to my surprise the logger said was actually harder for him to sell that time of year (Fall) given how long it takes oak to season out compared to other common species around here such as maple, ash, beech, cherry etc.

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Dropped it off one afternoon and by noon the next day it looked like this:

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Huh?! What's that?!? You don't believe I cut, split and stacked all those logs in a day ? 😱

Well ok, I may be exaggerating just a wee bit.

Nice, how many cords is that? And how much did you pay ?

 

[tymbee]

Nice, how many cords is that? And how much did you pay ?

Around 8 cords-- according to the logger but that may have been a little on the optimistic side. Was $700 for the load.

 

[Itslay90]

Around 8 cords-- according to the logger but that may have been a little on the optimistic side. Was $700 for the load.

Oh that’s not bad, I say. If you like doing the work it’s a win.