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Started by Robert R, October 28, 2005, 12:56:47 PM

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gizmo

I have a lumber mill near me that makes pallets. He fills up 4X4X8  foot boxes odf the ends, cherry, oak and hard maple. He sells it for $25.00 a load and he dumps it in with a forklift. He has straps around the box and cuts the strap as it is over the trailer. Quite a bit of weight there and also a waiting list at that price. I

solodan

The old body style Ford long bed is 8'x 5.5'x 20". That is just over 1/2 cord at bed rail height. So yes, a full cord fits in a full size Ford with sides 18" above the rail. The new style Ford bed, tapers in near the rear, so the volume is just a bit smaller. I used to haul  loads of pine and oak in my old F-250. I would stack the load to the top of the cab height, which is about   1-1/4 cords, and way to much weight for a 3/4 ton truck. even so that old truck is still running strong according to the friend i gave the truck to. They use the truck to haul full cords of green oak back to the main house from the woods down the hill. 20% grade in the mud with a cord in the back is alot of work for any truck, but hell it cost them $0.
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Tobacco Plug

State law requires that firewood be sold by the cord, but the law isn't enforced and no one sells like that.  It seems that all firewood around here is sold by the pickup load, with the understanding that it is an 8' bed full size pickup.  The going rate, according to the classified ads in my local paper is about $70 per load and some charge $5-$10 more to stack it.
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Robert R

When I looked in our paper this week, the ads were all for cords.  Wonder if someone got in trouble.  Anyway, they ranged from a low of 170 to a high of 235.
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solodan

Out here a cord of pine goes for about $250 now, but gas is high and propane is about $2.20 gal. cheaper to heat with wood even if you have to buy it. not much oak for sale because pine is easier $ at $250/cord. Almond goes for about $200 a cord and puts out way more heat but leaves more ash than you can imagine. The crazy part about it all, is that for $10/cord anyone can buy a fuel wood permit from the US forest service. you get your pickins on millions of acres. This just goes to show you how lazy people are, but here in the mountains most people are just part time vacationers or full time vacationers. Also in the central valley the farmers sell their almond trees for about $8 to $10 per tree, when the yeild slows down,to make room for new orchards. I couldn't figure out why all the yuppies never even flinched at the price of $250/cord, until i found out that in the S.F. Bay Area they are paying about $350/cord. Down there burning wood is purely for ambience only, it's in the mid 60's to mid 70's  90% of the year. so i'm sure nobody ever buys more than a cord at a time, where as here where i'm at, 6 or 7 cords per winter is normal.

SwampDonkey

Quote from: solodan on November 05, 2005, 11:49:31 AM
The crazy part about it all, is that for $10/cord anyone can buy a fuel wood permit from the US forest service. you get your pickins on millions of acres. This just goes to show you how lazy people are, but here in the mountains most people are just part time vacationers or full time vacationers.

That's easy to say, but if it's similar to the 'offerings' here on crown land, all the close stuff is cut and you need to haul in a skidder or hire it, which gets pricey. And the license holder isn't going to let just anyone haul in equipment on their lease ground. Also DNR tells you where you can cut it, you aren't allowed to have free range. No one in their right mind is going to climb brush piles to fetch firewood 200-400m from a road. ;)
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DouginUtah

For another group, I created an Excel spreadsheet which calculates how many BTUs you get per dollar for various fuels. These are last months numbers for northern Utah.

You can modify the numbers for the costs in your area. There are additional sheets which give the BTU content of many species of wood.

It is in Excel 2000 format. Comments and suggestions welcomed.

Source for the firewood data is:

http://muextension.missouri.edu/explore/agguides/forestry/g05450.htm

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SwampDonkey
No, it's not that way out  here,  a $10/cord tag gives you free range of any down trees, in the forrest in which you purchased them.  Wind fall + deadfall  provide most of the down trees, sometimes a hazard or road crew will fall hazard trees that did not fit into any timber sale. These tags are for personal use only and limit you to 10 cords/year per household. Commercial permits are available at about the same rate, but set up in the form of a small timber sale, and then you would be falling only trees marked within your sale boundaries. Pickens are fairly easy though for personal permits. I rarley see anyone else in the woods, most days I see nobody. Really anybody should be able to go out and get 2 or 3 cords in a day by themself, but I think it really boils down to most people not having the means. You need at least a saw and a pick-up(how these people get by without them, I don't know) but most of these people don't. But hell, I  don't  have a T.V.

andy cook

i think alot of people get mixed up when it comes to a cord or short cord.  to get a full cord in a regular pick up box good luck! a short cord is the same as a rick. and i get a rick in my pick up thrown in and slightly rounded

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