Wood burning questions- apple and cherry?

Apple wood goes for $200 to $250 a cord here. It is $180 a cord for seasoned oak.

Cherry smells nice when it is cut and burned but heat value is somewhat below oak.

Poplar burns fast and hot and is more suitable for a backyard firepit than the woodstove on a 10 degree day.

If there is a market bringing $1800 a cord for apple and $675 a cord for cherry (see 3 posts up) I would sell it in a heartbeat, and buy MANY years worth of oak.

This year we will have more Apple then normal, yet prices for cooking wood is still nice. The drought has gave us more dead apple trees in the area.

The market is not bad. Year round and rather fixed.

If you can chip the wood your self you wil make out great.

Heck bundle some up and sell it on e bay. You may be kinda supprised.

Folks have taken small electric chippers to apple wood. Selling 10 pound bags of dried wood for 8 bucks and the buyer pays all the shipping.

Red Cherry in this area is off the map. Folks have these trees being cut down and hauled off their lands WITH OUT their consent. Folks are stilling the wood. Many thought it was for lumber. It turns out it is for smoking venison.

At these prices someone should be trucking it in!

Yep both are great to burn when dry. I would cover the cherry from the weather while it dries, it will burn much better.

Where do you people live with those kind of wood prices? I can get seasoned hardwood for $49.00 a face chord (8'x4'x18") picked up.

Daytrader lives in fantasy land.

Pete

Print out the poem, frame it and keep it by your stove:

Beechwood fires burn bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year
Store your beech for Christmastide
With new holly laid beside
Chestnuts only good they say
If for years tis stayed away
Birch and firwood burn too fast
Blaze too bright and do not last
Flames from larch will shoot up high
Dangerously the sparks will fly
But Ashwood green and Ashwood brown
Are fit for a Queen with a golden crown

Oaken logs, if dry and old
Keep away the winters cold
Poplar gives a bitter smoke
Fills your eyes and makes you choke
Elmwood burns like churchyard mould
Even the very flames burn cold
Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread
So it is in Ireland said
Applewood will scent the room
Pears wood smells like a flower in bloom
But Ashwood wet and Ashwood dry
A King may warm his slippers by.

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both are excellent. burn them

I garbaged picked a large cherry tree trunk Too bad it wasn't an apple! I could ship it to daytrader and he could hook me up J/K daytrader

Fantsy land. No!. Only the best hard wood market there is for fire wood. The cooking wood is nice all around.

St Louis mo has very high heating wood markets. The cooking wood markets are also very nice.

I DO SELL alot of fire wood. We sold our chomper hears ago. We kept a Timber wolf spliter around for custom jobs. We learnt that its much cheaper to buy it, pay the transportation and sell it.

Wood is still at 250 a cord for medium value wood right now here. As it has been warm.

http://www.firewoodcenter.com/

Normally we have about the highest cost for fire wood here.

Cooking wood is off the map as it has the be trucked in as well. I have been luck. I did not play the market in the wood value this year. We have 500+ full cords on the ground. Been tell the folks that call we are not delivering and giving them locals numbers out of the paper that we still make 40 a cord on.

Once it gets cold and in the nect two weeks. Folks will want wood like no tomarrow for fires for comfort. Thansgiving day and such.

Just cooking wood is were the money is.

APPLE WOOD sent as a heat source! No way in heck. I'll buy every bit I can get and pay the transport. Hell Lousiville KY can buy 50 truck loads right now for 350 a full cord.

If you have it advertise it. It will be purchased.