Mrs. L.A. bought a cord of firewood, which was delivered yesterday. Unlike last time, when they dumped it in the driveway and I had to move it to the back yard and stack it, the guy dumped it at the corner of the house and Mrs. L.A. moved it back. It’s pretty much downhill and more-or-less level(-ish), so she had the easy job. I made three stacks, eight feet long and about five feet high, atop three pairs of pressure-treated 2x4s on some pavers I put down a couple of years ago. My lower back is sore this morning! Mrs. L.A. had fun burning some in the fire pit, and we have plenty for the wood stove if it gets cold enough this year.
Anyway, it was $240, delivered. How’s the firewood scene in your area?
EDIT: GOT wood, not ‘God’ wood! Moderator, please change. :smack:
I thought this was going to be about Game of Thrones…
I traded a whole oak tree for a cord of seasoned hardwood this past year when we cleared the lot to build our house. Otherwise it would’ve gone into the chipper like all the rest.
About $425 delivered this year for our usual cord and a half. New supplier, good seasoned hardwoods but kind of ragged and varying in size. Took about two weeks to get the drop stacked, mostly because Junior Barbarian was just too too busy…
We miss the joshua trees. I thought about how fun it would be to fill the back yard with sand and plant one (plus some tumbleweeds). The Missus would certainly not go for it – plus the joshua tree would not survive here.
A couple of years ago, the guy said he could stack the wood for a fee. I think it was something around $20/hour. For ‘the same price y’all paid’, it’s a bargain if they stacked it too. $425 seems a lot for a cord and a half.
It took about three hours to stack the wood. Would have been longer if I also had to haul it to the back yard. It’s not the kind of work I do, so I did have a few 5-minute breaks.
It’s about $50-75 for delivery - we’re kind of a long way out in the woods. Most of the wood places are tree companies that conserve their own cutting and are closer in to the city. Pickup prices are lower. Stacking is usually about $50, but between needing the exercise, being picky about how the stack is arranged and having a strapping 15yo with many expensive interests, I’d rather not pay it.
There’s one really good supplier that works at a wholesale level, buying cuttings and with several acres of seasoning stacks. Good splits, even lengths… but we’re right on the line of their delivery area and each year it’s a tossup as to whether the person who takes orders will okay the delivery or not. This year it was “no.” (It’s an operation run along Pride Industries lines, giving jobs to the mentally disabled and, I think, in halfway houses. So the office crew isn’t always… flexible.)
Connecticut also bans firewood from outside the state, as a pest-control measure. Muir knows we’ve got plenty of our own trees, but I suppose that does cut into what might be really big regional sellers.
The boys are tossing the third pick-up load into the basement as I type. Once in the basement they will stack it up nicely in a 2 piece by 2 piece by about 6 foot high along the walls of the furnace room (it’s a 10x20 and a 10x10 room… L shaped). It’s much nicer than having to haul a few hours worth of wood up stairs into the house and then down stairs to the wood burner. Plus no waiting on cold, possible wet/frozen wood to thaw out well enough to get a fire going.
Now to remember to remind Mistermage to check how much diesel there is because nothing sucks worse than freezing your butt off, loading the wood only to not have the injector/flamethrower work due to being empty or too low (the diesel gels up when it gets that cold).
And maybe nag at him to finish hooking up the propane furnace… it’s only been sitting in the furnace room for 6 years now.
You know who’s got wood? The Dudley Boyz got wood. And they’ll probably use it on the New Day. Tonight. Only on the WWE Network! (and also on PPV if you want to pay 5-6 times as much).
