PeteD said:downeast said:Reality check time boys and girls. Flame if you need to.
The whining about the "cost" of CSD (cut/split/delivered) firewood is too much.
I haven't really seen any whining to tell you the truth. I agree it is a lot of work and frankly I don't know how anyone makes any money at it. I would assume the only way to do that is to come by the wood as a side effect of another business (land clearing, landscaping, building, etc.).
If you had to pay for someone to get firewood specifically, I have a hard time seeing how they can make a living.
I am scrounging and harvesting what I can myself.
Several years back, I used a 60-foot pine tree that was 15 feet from my son's bedroom as an excuse to by a Husky 350 and drop it myself, instead of paying someone to do it. But I do almost all projects myself and use some of the savings on labor to buy tools I can use down the road.
Hell, if I had to pay myself for my time to prepare my own wood, I would better off paying $5.00 for oil and not worrying about it. But, I think wood gathering is therapeutic and there is something primordial about fire that makes it all fun.
The purpose of my post was simply to see if this was the market price in my area. There are always people taking advantage of situations like we have now try to make some extra money. However, I believe people can charge whatever they want and the market will determine what the price should be.
Pete
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