2014-2015 and 2015-2016 Firewood

[Zack]

Too dark to take pics + my pc is rather sick right now so I can't post them anyway but.....

Called a CL add last night, an excavation contractor in Stonington who is working on clearing land for a 12 unit subdivision. Fresh cut green oak, cut & delivered for 85 per cord. Ordered 10 cord. He was here at 4pm, 5pm & 6 pm already.

The log length guys in this area are usually 100 - 110 per cord.

This guy is based out of Danielson: (broken link removed to http://newlondon.craigslist.org/grd/4302192492.html)

Wow, $85 a cord is a great price. Nice score!

I called JP Bernier too and left a message on his voicemail. Then I missed his call back and his message cut out about halfway through so I didn't get any pricing info. I called him back and left another message but haven't heard anything from him since then.

 

[Zack]

We're neighbors!! I’m in Colchester.
Normally I’m a scrounger but I’ve been struggling to get a couple years ahead so I might just bite the bullet and buy a load.

Wow, small world! I'd love to be able to scrounge wood, but I don't have a truck.

 

[mustash29]

Just tell the wife you are going to build a property line privacy fence out of single row stacks.

A square acre is 208 x 208. Stack that 4' high with 18" splits and you have 39 cord, minus whatever width you leave open for a driveway.

 

[mustash29]

Yeah, score for sure. A co-worked just filled up with oil @ 3.72 / gal. My 10 cord for 850 = 228 gal at those prices. 10 cord will last me 2+ winters.

 

[Zack]

Yeah, score for sure. A co-worked just filled up with oil @ 3.72 / gal. My 10 cord for 850 = 228 gal at those prices. 10 cord will last me 2+ winters.

My cousin has a big Victorian house and she told me last week that she already burned over 500 gal of oil this winter(she has two 350 gal tanks)! I'd hate to get the oil bill to fill those tanks. I filled up my oil tank last June and used about 150 gal since then, mainly for hot water. I'm glad I burn wood!

 

[Cascade Failure]

My cousin has a big Victorian house and she told me last week that she already burned over 500 gal of oil this winter(she has two 350 gal tanks)! I'd hate to get the oil bill to fill those tanks. I filled up my oil tank last June and used about 150 gal since then, mainly for hot water. I'm glad I burn wood!

Years ago I rented an old Victorian in Norwich; a big, poorly insulated place. I had to fill the 275 gal oil tank every three weeks! I was so happy to get out of there.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I'd love to get 3+ years ahead, but I have to ease my wife into having more wood stacked in the yard. She thinks I'm crazy for getting this much wood now! I need to get it stacked up nice and tidy so it doesn't look like such an "eyesore" to her. We only have 1 acre that slopes down from front to back. I don't want to stack wood in the back yard since I don't have anything but a wheelbarrow to bring it up to the house when needed. Now I stack it along the side property line so I only need to move it about 50' into the house to burn.

I understand with some people why the ladies don't like the wood stacks but I've also found that just the mention of a wood pile turns them off. For some odd reason they have a strange way of looking at things. Personally neither my wife nor I find a nice wood pill unsightly.

Would your wife find these to be ugly? Of course, minus those few splits that weren't yet picked up before the picture was taken.

 

[mustash29]

My oh my, that is sexier than a girly magazine.

 

[bmblank]

You're looking at the wrong girly magazines...

 

[Zack]

I understand with some people why the ladies don't like the wood stacks but I've also found that just the mention of a wood pile turns them off. For some odd reason they have a strange way of looking at things. Personally neither my wife nor I find a nice wood pill unsightly.

Would your wife find these to be ugly? Of course, minus those few splits that weren't yet picked up before the picture was taken.

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Those stacks look much better than the mess of logs, rounds and splits in our yard now. I spent about 8 hours this weekend cutting and splitting and hardly made a dent in the log pile. Hopefully she will appreciate the stacks more once the yard is cleaned up.

 

[WiscWoody]

Years ago I got tired of wearing the skirt and the wife the pants. I left for the house in the great northwoods, got two loyal dogs and life has been soo much nicer since., lol

 

[velvetfoot]

Key word: loyal.

 

[Zack]

I finally got most of the truckload of wood processed. It took me longer than I expected, 50+ hours to cut, split and stack 7.5 cords. The back 4 rows are red oak and the first 2 rows are mostly hickory and a bit of another species unknown to me. The pile of knotty pieces on the end will have to wait until I can beg, borrow or rent a splitter since they just laughed at my Fiskars. I raked up 14 wheelbarrow loads of chips from cutting. Hopefully the grass will come back eventually!

 

[Bwhunter85]

Nice looking stacks! A lot of work went into that!

 

[Missouri Frontier]

I finally got most of the truckload of wood processed. It took me longer than I expected, 50+ hours to cut, split and stack 7.5 cords. The back 4 rows are red oak and the first 2 rows are mostly hickory and a bit of another species unknown to me. The pile of knotty pieces on the end will have to wait until I can beg, borrow or rent a splitter since they just laughed at my Fiskars. I raked up 14 wheelbarrow loads of chips from cutting. Hopefully the grass will come back eventually!

the grass will return. great job Zack. I'm sure your T5 will love all that good wood. your stacks look nice. Thanks for the pics.

 

[Missouri Frontier]

I understand with some people why the ladies don't like the wood stacks but I've also found that just the mention of a wood pile turns them off. For some odd reason they have a strange way of looking at things. Personally neither my wife nor I find a nice wood pill unsightly.

Would your wife find these to be ugly? Of course, minus those few splits that weren't yet picked up before the picture was taken.

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Dennis, mine sqeaked about the wood pile at first. then the wood heat comma set in and that shut her up for awhile. funny, she doesn't complain about the wood pile in the winter. go figure.

 

[HybridFyre]

That's awesome. I'm not far from you, i'm in North Stonington. I think i'll definitely get a log log to try and get ahead as scrounging is allowing me to barely get a years worth since i'm burning about 4-5 cord a year. Having a 2 year old doesn't help. Thanks for the pricing info, i was wondering what prices would be around here.

 

[WiscWoody]

Ooh! Yummy wood porn there!

 

[Zack]

That's awesome. I'm not far from you, i'm in North Stonington. I think i'll definitely get a log log to try and get ahead as scrounging is allowing me to barely get a years worth since i'm burning about 4-5 cord a year. Having a 2 year old doesn't help. Thanks for the pricing info, i was wondering what prices would be around here.

I don't have a truck to scrounge wood and I burn about 4 cords a year too so getting a log load delivered made the most sense. I have a 2 year old and a 5 month old so having the wood right outside the house to work on while they were sleeping was convenient.

 

[HybridFyre]

I'm impressed you found time over a couple weeks to get it done. That would take me well over a month but that's probably because i'm always juggling 10 projects at once.

 

[Zack]

I'm impressed you found time over a couple weeks to get it done. That would take me well over a month but that's probably because i'm always juggling 10 projects at once.

It took me almost 2 months in total. The logs were delivered at the end of January, but then got buried under snow until mid March when it melted.

 

[mustash29]

Log length is definately a chore. The 2 loads I got in the past were fun to proccess, but a PITA at the same time because some of it was pretty good diameter.

Late Jan I got 10 cord (mason dump loads) of fresh cut (mostly oak, a little maple) delivered for a steal. So far we have 1/2 of it split & stacked. That was done on 2 days about 6 hrs per. Including cleaning the stack area, re-arranging new pallets, junking the rotted ones, lunch breaks, etc, we maybe put 15 hrs in max. Me running the 31 ton MTD and she stacking right next to me.

On a side note, there seems to be some good scores showing up on CL as folks get working on their outside projects. I've already missed out on a few due to my work schedule. Grrrrrrr.

 

[paul bunion]

14 loads of chips in the wheelbarrow sounds right. I get my logs laid parallel to the driveway and roll them out for cutting. Cleanup of a knee deep pile of chips is much easier on a paved surface.

 

[kennyp2339]

Got a delivery of lengths last fall, man still sore from that lol, I figure its about 7.5 cords. I'm researching new stoves to make my pile last, (blaze king) don't wanna do one those every year.

 

[jaychino415]

I understand with some people why the ladies don't like the wood stacks but I've also found that just the mention of a wood pile turns them off. For some odd reason they have a strange way of looking at things. Personally neither my wife nor I find a nice wood pill unsightly.

Would your wife find these to be ugly? Of course, minus those few splits that weren't yet picked up before the picture was taken.

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Those are some awesome looking stacks.