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#148039 - 09/09/08 02:49 AM Oak Firewood
Todd W Offline
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Registered: 11/14/04
Posts: 1928
Loc: Mountains of CA
What are you paying for a cord of 1yr seasoned and split oak where you live?

Post price and location please smile

Around Sacramento CA. $300-$350 shocked
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#148083 - 09/09/08 01:22 PM Re: Oak Firewood [Re: Todd W]
Hghvlocity Offline
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Registered: 01/12/05
Posts: 248
Loc: Oklahoma
Tulsa, Ok - Around $45 - 65 per rick.
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#148121 - 09/09/08 05:35 PM Re: Oak Firewood [Re: Todd W]
MartinFocazio Offline

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Registered: 01/21/03
Posts: 2203
Loc: Bucks County PA
$0 Of course, that's because we had a MASSIVE oak taken down....

But my neighbor is selling mixed oak and hickory, split, seasoned, $275 cord. Bucks County PA

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#148129 - 09/09/08 05:57 PM Re: Oak Firewood [Re: MartinFocazio]
BobS Offline
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Registered: 02/08/08
Posts: 924
Loc: Toledo Ohio
$0.0, I have a friend that owns a lumber yard and I get all the cut offs. I also get a lot of sawdust for free as well as generate my own, but so far I haven't found a real good use for it.
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#148133 - 09/09/08 06:26 PM Re: Oak Firewood [Re: ]
Grouch Offline
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Registered: 07/02/08
Posts: 395
Loc: Ohio
I used to get all of the oak I wanted, free for the hauling. An acquaintance owned a woods that was being harvested. The loggers left the tops and he wanted them out of there. It was the perfect size to work with and burn in my wood burning stove.

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#148170 - 09/10/08 01:44 AM Re: Oak Firewood [Re: Grouch]
KG2V Offline

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Registered: 08/19/03
Posts: 1371
Loc: Queens, New York City
heh - I have a good friend who's B-I-L used to get dumptruck loads of kiln dried oak - FREE, delivered

It seems "G" used to work for a company that did major sewer line work. Well, you know that shoring/cribbing they use to prevent the trench from falling is? It's only allowed to be used ONCE, and then it has to be disposed of. The company was paying a fortune to the dump to take it. HE took it free. The BIG problem was it was covered in DIRT - even though we would take a stiff broom to it to get 90+% of the dirt off, he used to go through chains at a very rapid clip. Biggest hastle was splitting

Interesting, around here in Queens, it's possible to get free firewood most of the time, but it's wet. We have the Asian longhorn beetle, so it's illegal to ship wood out of the area, so the tree companies have all sorts of problems disposing of the wood (they have to pay a fortune) - they are more than willing to drop off say a whole 2+ft diameter oak tree, but the cuts are usually 3+ ft long, weigh a LOT, and you need to have a place to store it till dry. I've been known to watch where guys are known to illegally dump, and come back a year later with my truck...
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#148256 - 09/10/08 03:32 PM Re: Oak Firewood [Re: KG2V]
Todd W Offline
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Registered: 11/14/04
Posts: 1928
Loc: Mountains of CA
Oak and other wood is nromally a LOT cheaper (1/2 price) when wet or in solid form still.
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#148286 - 09/10/08 05:34 PM Re: Oak Firewood [Re: Todd W]
wildman800 Offline
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Registered: 11/09/06
Posts: 2846
Loc: La-USA
I am driving around town and observing all of the premium hard wood that is waiting to be picked up and taken to the landfill. This is all post-Gustave stuff.

It seems a major waste that someone (a Homesteader) isn't harvesting this wood to convert to firewood and make a profit from.
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