Not at bad CL deal @ $160/cord...

[jmhpsu93]

...if I could somehow get those stacks delivered 50 miles as is to my house!

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[Backwoods Savage]

At least it is not fresh cut and it is stacked off the ground and the top somewhat covered.

I don't know about that 5' measurement though. Perhaps that is 5' from the ground. It just does not look 5' tall. If 5' in width it would mean 20" lengths of wood.

Maybe I should start selling some wood that way? No, I enjoy helping people too much to try to make money from it. But someday I might need the cash....

 

[Todd]

Rental truck?

 

[iceman]

At least it is not fresh cut and it is stacked off the ground and the top somewhat covered.

I don't know about that 5' measurement though. Perhaps that is 5' from the ground. It just does not look 5' tall. If 5' in width it would mean 20" lengths of wood.

Maybe I should start selling some wood that way? No, I enjoy helping people too much to try to make money from it. But someday I might need the cash....

just looked at my 5' stack and there is a lot more rows to it... now his splits could be bigger but i agree with you thats not 5'

the picture on the right is sitting at least a foot off the ground... there is something on top of the cinder blocks before you get to the wood, my guess is the stack is really about 3.5-4 ' tops

 

[azsteven]

I still think that's a pretty decent deal for well seasoned wood. I had a similar deal in early February where I bought about 1.5 cords from a non-dealer in my town -- I paid $200, and had to make 5 trips in my neighbor's pickup truck to get it all. Since most CL ads are for "seasoned" wood that was split last week, I'd at least go look/measure it.

 

[iceman]

I still think that's a pretty decent deal for well seasoned wood. I had a similar deal in early February where I bought about 1.5 cords from a non-dealer in my town -- I paid $200, and had to make 5 trips in my neighbor's pickup truck to get it all. Since most CL ads are for "seasoned" wood that was split last week, I'd at least go look/measure it.

good point, however, if its more like 4 cords each row it works out somewhere around 230 a cord, plus truck rental and i assume a 100 mile round trip plus time... if its 100 mile trip i would pass.. i am sure he can get something a little cheaper in price and let it season in his back yard...... but if it were say 25 round trip .... i would be on it!

 

[azsteven]

good point, however, if its more like 4 cords each row it works out somewhere around 230 a cord, plus truck rental and i assume a 100 mile round trip plus time... if its 100 mile trip i would pass.. i am sure he can get something a little cheaper in price and let it season in his back yard...... but if it were say 25 round trip .... i would be on it!

Indeed. I made 5 roundtrips -- about 1 mile each way.

 

[LLigetfa]

If 5' in width it would mean 20" lengths of wood.....

It doesn't look to be 5 feet to me. There are two CMUs and a gap in between. A CMU is less than 16 inches long so the space between would have to be two feet.

 

[Battenkiller]

It doesn't look to be 5 feet to me. There are two CMUs and a gap in between. A CMU is less than 16 inches long so the space between would have to be two feet.

They're 15 1/2". I used that as a reference, and a transparent ruler on my 27" monitor to figure that they are close to 5' across (they overhang the blocks by a lot), but not 5' tall, closer to 4'. So let's say 4'x5'x32'=5 cord. Still an excellent price for seasoned wood, at least around here.

 

[wsorg]

Sound like a pretty good deal!