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There is a lot of firewood to be had in a local state park for $15 a cord. This is a picture of one of the larger trees down close to a road. ID would be great to determine whether or not to get the permit. Thanks a lot for any help!
Yep, Red Oak, so it won't help you for next winter. That's fresh, so I'd have it split and stacked for three years before I tried to burn it. Have you got next year covered?
$15 a cord for oak here and it wood be gone in a few days, if not in a few hours by an army of wood scrounges. It costs $20 a cord here for a permit to glean logging sites in the national forests of slash and cull logs, and for the last 2 years there have been no sites to cut at on the west side of the Cascades.
Run and get that wood, right now! Tell them Scotty the Overkiller sent you...
Thanks everyone for the input. I am good for next year with firewood so I am working on the 2 years stash now. I am hoping to get a few cords at that price but only one cord at a time. I am going to stop by this afternoon after work.
I also see it as red oak. But I'm better at upright trees in person than pictures of downed trees. I find that oak in a sunny driveway seasons real well in 12 months.
Yuppers on the red oak but as Woody stated, that stuff needs to be split as soon as possible then I'd wait until the winter of 2015-2016 at the earliest but would probably give it one more year. I hate burning wood that is not dry enough.
Check around there and see if there is any white ash cut down. If so, jump on it fast!