# Who among you buys firewood?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 8, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-among-you-buys-firewood/347600 "2006-03-08T22:46:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-among-you-buys-firewood/347600/1 "2006-03-08T22:46:51Z")

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(And, is that title grammatically correct? I’m having a brain fart.)  
(And yes, I know it’s incorrect to start a sentence with “and.”) 😃

Anyhow.  
Do you buy firewood? How much is a full cord, in your neck of the woods? I’m in SE Michigan. It seems astonishingly cheap here. I get a full cord of nicely split (to my specifications no less) hardwood - mostly oak, some cherry. The guy dumps it in my driveway for $55.00, and will stack it for an extra $10.00. I stack it myself, though.  
That’s really cheap, isn’t it? This is the first winter in over a decade I’ve bought firewood, and previously in Colorado I recall paying _well_ over $100.00; and that was a long time ago.  
I fail to see how this guy makes any money. He cuts it on his own property, loads it, drives his big pickup 70 miles round trip (and gas is $2.50/gallon right now) and dumps a really sweet pile of dry, seasoned wood next to my house.  
I almost feel guilty.  
And, cherry wood makes my house smell great. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-among-you-buys-firewood/347600/2 "2006-03-08T23:12:01Z")

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I think that is really cheap.

Around here - very northern CA - a cord runs us from $160 - $260 depending on what kind of wood you get. A mixed cord of oak and madrone is expensive, fir less so.

Think your guy would deliver to here? 😉