How Long Will Firewood Keep

Ken Scharabok · #21 01/01/10, 05:11 AM

"Rock, if you can get anyone with a trailer to help you, you should try cutting a load and taking it into a city--it's insane what city dwellers will pay for a load of good oak wood."

I had noticed the plastic wrapped bundles outside convenience stores. I got the price and took average measurements. Divided bundle square feet into the square feet of a 4' x 4' x 8' cord. Using the average price of a cord locally it came to the equivalent of something like $700 cord retail. What wasn't sold was likely picked up, stored and taken back next year.

poorboy · #22 01/01/10, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Rocky Fields

Ed,

Actually BR is only 30...he just looks like he's a hundred...not enuff catfish in his diet ;-)

RF

'is head looks like it's wore out two bodies..*snicker*

bugstabber · #23 01/01/10, 11:34 AM

You could sell bundles to campers in the summer, assuming people like to sit around a nice fire in the evenings.

**GREENCOUNTYPETE** · #24 01/01/10, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by ronbre

agree with everything above..you could bring it here..but i doubt i could pay your asking price with that drive !!

not that it would pay to take it to far but

Check the laws of transporting firewood

with emrald ash borer they are very strick about transporting firewood here in wisconsin 50 mile limit , it is only really enforced when you try to enter a state park you have to have an address and recipt of where you got it withing 50 miles of the park

it doesn't matter the wood species they don't care the just take it from you bag it in plastic and burn it at park edge

do you know many people that burn wood might be easier to have a few wood cutting parties where everyone comes over , helps cut and split and goes home with a truck load of wood you get your woods cleaned up , get plenty of wood for your use for several years and they go home with wood for thier use , and it saves you all sorts of work heck you might get away with driving loads back and forth with your truck while the kids load and unload
and everyone brings a dish to pass at lunch

big rockpile · #25 01/01/10, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by bugstabber

You could sell bundles to campers in the summer, assuming people like to sit around a nice fire in the evenings.

Got problem with Mennonite under bidding everyone around here on Campfire Wood.

big rockpile

fantasymaker · #26 01/02/10, 11:33 AM

If stacked standing on end they will last decades ,if you can stack on something dry like concreate they will last even more!

goat milkin mom · #27 01/02/10, 03:53 PM

We still have some firewood from Hurricane Katrina - so I'm guessing around 4 years. It's starting to rot a little and it's very dry, but we use it to help start fires when the heater is cold.

My DH says that firewood will last around 4 to 5 years if you keep it dry. We live on the banks of 2 creeks, so our wood comes when trees are taken by the creeks - we never cut down a tree for firewood. Therefore, the wood gets piled up at weird times, but we never have trouble with it rotting before we use it.