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[Hay Dude]

With hay mostly delivered and fields all cut, we started clearing up some fallen trees today. I have a pretty good backlog of them to get cleaned up. This one was blocking the back corner of a field.

I used the 261C for this job. It started in 3 pulls and ran 100% perfect.
I cut for an hour straight and when I set it down and it idled, sometimes for 5 minutes at a time, it never stalled. What a great 20” saw for moderate work.

 

[shooterdon]

I buy logs for the firewood business I have

Got another 40 logger cords of oak delivered today and one coming tomorrow. That brings me to 120 logger cords delivered this fall. My log supply is at 180 logger cords.

20 logger cords produces about 16 cords of firewood. Enough logs for 144 cords of firewood.

Currently it costs $1700 for 20 logger cords. That works out to just over $106 per cord. Decided a few years ago that “free” wood wasn’t free. There are costs with getting that free wood as well as time.

 

[Eagle1]

You must get better prices than around here to sell.
200$ for a cord picked up
220$ delivered and dumped
240$ delivered and stacked

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm curious what a logger cord is. To me a cord is 128 cubic feet.

 

[John_Mc]

You must get better prices than around here to sell.
200$ for a cord picked up
220$ delivered and dumped
240$ delivered and stacked

A logger cord is whole logs, not processed firewood.

 

[BnRidge]

Decided a few years ago that “free” wood wasn’t free.

But scarfing wood is free, right. That's the response from most wood stover boiler types. At what point did it become not free for you. Legit question. I can say that I cut wood and - have the saw, costs nothing, atv, trailer, tractor, splitter, labor, fuel - got all that and, their costs don't apply, look at all the money I'm saving.

 

[Eagle1]

A logger cord is whole logs, not processed firewood.

I know but if you pay 100+ for a logger cord then process it into firewood there not much profit at 200. Maybe at 300 it worth doing and paying for equipment and labor.
Those number are from a local for sale add and about normal

 

[John_Mc]

I know but if you pay 100+ for a logger cord then process it into firewood there not much profit at 200. Maybe at 300 it worth doing and paying for equipment and labor.
Those number are from a local for sale add and about normal

I agree with that. No one sells processed firewood for $220 delivered around here. In my area, folks who are in the business (as opposed to those who are just selling the odd cord here and there) are $325 or higher for green wood. Some are significantly higher. Those with a good reputation have no problem selling what they produce.

 

[Eagle1]

Around here you can get seasoned oak for $200-250 per cord. So many mills have closed in the last 20 years there is NO shortage of dead oaks/hickory to be had. I used sell a lot of firewood in the park or other campgrounds but now I just feed my stove and fire pit.

You can get cheap/free permit to cut firewood after logging and they leave anything not perfect on the ground to rot. I have a 40 they did near me and there are hundreds of big trees with flaws just laying on the ground. Not enough people to take it for free.

I have enough dead and dry ready to cut to last my lifetime on my place alone.

 

[spruce Deere]

Around here you can get seasoned oak for $200-250 per cord. So many mills have closed in the last 20 years there is NO shortage of dead oaks/hickory to be had. I used sell a lot of firewood in the park or other campgrounds but now I just feed my stove and fire pit.

You can get cheap/free permit to cut firewood after logging and they leave anything not perfect on the ground to rot. I have a 40 they did near me and there are hundreds of big trees with flaws just laying on the ground. Not enough people to take it for free.

I have enough dead and dry ready to cut to last my lifetime on my place alone.

I don't have a lifetime of dead/dieing firewood in my 11 acres of timber. Its been managed for 3 generations, it just don't have that much dead or dieing timber.
But the neighbor and I corner up to forest circus ground that gets zero management and probably several lifetimes firewood of dead/dieing multiple species of trees. If a fire ever got going in there, oh boy.... That's why I am glad my timber does not have a lifetimes worth of firewood in it.