Firewood Delivery. Super Pleased.
Just had 4 loads delivered. 6X8' full size pickup loads, rounded over. Easily 80% Oak. Very dry. Split for a long time. Came from accross the street of the Sawmill I used to work at. They would buy all the "reject," logs. Guy has literally Tons of firewood on hand. I've known it for years. Used to carry logs over there in my grapple loader. Stopped by a couple weeks ago to set this up. We kinda know each other by sight.
$75/load. $300 total. Easily Cord and a half + of excellent firewood. Now just gotta figure out how to get it all inside my two large outbuildings. Feel like a load has been lifted off my shoulders. I usually do my own firewood. Getting older, I am very pleased for the dollar return here. New high efficiency woodstove insert demands very dry wood. Getting on board with that.
Woo Hoo! 😁
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Turns out Marvin had delivered firewood back up in my holler several times over the years.
He said, "There used to be an A-frame back up in here that had a large hidden pond behind it." I said "Yeah, that's my place." Took them (3 of em' all related.) Out on my back deck. "Wow, this is beautiful." (Hidden, Mountains all around. Killer view.) I said "Yes Sir, it is."
Spring fed, stocked with Rainbow/Brown Trout. Tons of Bluegill. Nice resource right behind the house. Getting prepped/being stocked feels really good.
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Even better. When they finished delivering the last two loads. Started talking to Marvin about what kind of deal we could work out on the downed Primo Red/White Oak logs I have on the back of my property. (While we stood on the back deck.)
He can buy "reject" logs from the sawmill cheaper than what we could do. (But) Got a couple contact #'s for loggers with grapple cranes/trucks that can maybe pick up these logs and either get them to mill, or barter for more future firewood.
Good contact. We all parted very happy.
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Good deal! We need some pics!
As much as I like to cut and split wood, if I could get a full size, overloaded pickup load of oak delivered for $75 I would do that in a heart beat. Plus, oak is about 20 percent better firewood than black walnut.
Is there any rot in this wood?0 -
Good deal. Your back and knees will thank you. 0 -
Could you make a better deal next time by hauling it yourself? You know, since you have all that free time. 0 -
You made me think Allen, about the putting it in an outbuilding with limited air flow in order to bake it into submission. My two outbuildings get ridiculously hot during the day. The new woodstove insert folks recommend inside only storage. That is what I am striving for.
No, no rot at all that I could see. I expected the somewhat normal 60/40 Oak/etc. vs. Poplar etc. load. I was very pleased to see the 80/20 load. (I have not spotted any poplar at all.) Appears to be 100% hardwood.
My most difficult/hardest job on firewood this year, will be picking it up and moving it all inside, onto pallets.
I could tell/and we discussed that this wood came from the "reject" logs from the Sawmill. Most of the Oak wood had been squared. (Gone through the mill, but red flagged for metal etc.) Very good stuff.
Pictures have not been working out for me. Verizon 4G dedicated tablet internet leav3s something to be desired. (That is why my multiple posts transpire.) Looks like my tablet is locked up, then everything goes through at once.
For $75/load for how much I received, and what I received was an excellent return for the $$.
I remembered the loads you were showing with your Brother and you splitting, and dreading having to do the same. This worked out great.
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Jim Deere - I don't know how much better it could get. Three bigger, younger guys than myself loading and unloading the wood. Even if they sold it to me for $50/load. Worth more than that $25 to have it loaded, hauled and unloaded.
Doubt you are going to score this quality of wood for $50/load. Not happening. No way, No how.
Have I mentioned, that I'm happy? 😉
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Of course, it is pouring rain outside just now. Went out, and got as much off the ground/stacked higher as i could. Only spotted about 2-3 pieces of poplar. This is a 80-85% Oak, and another 10% various other hardwood load.
Excellent deal for the $$. (For an Old Dude, averse to cutting/splitting carrying it.) Killer deal.
Took those 3 bigger/younger guys maybe 20 minutes each, (if that) to load/unload a oversize pick up load. They spent maybe 45 minutes here earlier, another 30/45 minutes on second two loads.
A $300, very well spent.
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"3 of em' all related.)" Yea well it is Tennessee so pretty much everybody is related. 3 -
I've been waiting for that. What took so long?
"Swims with Sharks?"
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Leave me alone!! I'm old. 0 -
Here is the final tally from that big black walnut I spoke of on another thread. This pile is 15 feet long and 4 1/2 feet high. The pieces are 17 inches long.
I cut up one 12 inch diameter branch, the rest is from the big 25 inch diameter trunk. This took three trips to the tree.
Let's see what this "free" firewood cost.
Travel time and cost: One mile from my front door. So little, you can't even count it. Whereas, the last time I drove out for free firwood on C****slist, I had to drive 45 minutes, and the wood wasn't worth cutting. One and a half hour drive time to get zero wood. But, on this haul, travel cost so small you can't calculate it.
Work time: Four and a half hours of strenuous work. Half of that was running the chain saw, the other half was splitting. I tell you splitting these big walnut drums with a maul is quite a workout. On several of them the maul wouldn't do it so I had to bust them with the ten pound hammer and the steel wedge. I drank up quite a bit of the gallon of spring water I carried down there.
Plus, as you can see this is "rough" split just small enough so I don't hurt my back loading the truck. There is still 2 or 3 hours of splitting left, to get them to firewood size.
Total: Seven and a half hours of hard work.
Miscellaneous: I didn't damage the chains on either of my saws. Spent 45 minutes sharpening saws. Cost of chainsaw gas and oil, not worth adding up maybe 2 Bucks.
Travel cost, zero. Miscellaneous cost zero. Seven and a half hours hard work.
This would probably equal two big pickup loads that you bought. But your wood is dry and this wood is as green as can be.
Black walnut is much better than poplar, but not as good as oak, so wood quality is probably a tie.
So that, and remember this is a really good "free" firewood haul, you paid $150, snapped your fingers and watched them dump it in your yard.
I had to work hard for 7 1/2 hours.
As I said above you got a good deal.0 -
Simple, smoke and any poison goes up the chimney. Ought to try some wood wrapped with poison Ivy for fire wood. You will not be happy. 0 -
I have been a little concerned, that the smoke from bl**k walnut might be toxic. It does smell weird. I have gotten several snootfulls of it over the years with no ill effect. As butchdog said, stay far away from poison ivy smoke, even a poison ivy vine that has been dead for a year.
Cutting black walnut with the chain saw has no ill effect, and in the last two days I have been covered in fresh, wet bl**ck walnut sawdust. It made my arms tingle, felt like I had poison ivy, but I washed my arms off real well in the shower with soap, and my arms quit hurting. It is one weird freaky wood. But, it is beautiful.0 -
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Simple, smoke and any poison goes up the chimney. Ought to try some wood wrapped with poison Ivy for fire wood. You will not be happy.
I've got about 7-8 standing dead Locust (great firewood) at the front edge of my property. Unfortunately they are wrapped in Poison Oak. Just not worth it. I would love to have them. (But) Nope, not gonna do it.
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Kinda screwed up though. I am sure the guys would have had no problem (if I had asked) to back up a couple feet further and throw it (not asking them to stack it) right inside the shed. If I had gone out to the shed an organized things to the back or in to the metal outbuilding the day before. Not only would the wood be inside the shed, but it wouldn't be sitting out there soaking wet just now.
Now I gotta pick up and move a cord and a half, when if I had given it the thought, it could already be in there. Doh.............................
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Oh how I dread winter. That means I'll have to go upstairs at about the end of November and flip the switch on the 2 thermostats from cool to heat. It's bad enough to have to adjust the one here on the 1st floor near my recliner 'cause I can't reach it and have to get up to do it. And it'll probably be right in the middle of my nap time when it needs to be done. 6 -
The locust wrapped with PI or PO would be fine if you let it lay on the ground a couple years. the bark most likely would slip right off. I have done that with no ill effects 0
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