Re: FIREWOOD SHORTAGE

Posted by LOU from Wi. on October 01, 2014 at 10:08:21 from (184.157.209.12):

In Reply to: FIREWOOD SHORTAGE posted by 2underage on October 01, 2014 at 07:57:36:

2underage,
I've been on here before complaining on the cost of firewood, in Rice Lake,Wi. the mill has their yard stacked so high it almost reaches the clouds.
If anybody remembers,which I doubt, Japan bought a whole loads of hard wood from the US buried the stuff,then when we ran short, guess who sold it back to us at a heavily increased profit.

The fastest growing trees in our area is poplar, which produces very little BTU per cord than anything,but they still make it in pellet form so the customer will come back for more and more pellets because of no heat. Up here in the north part of Wisconsin, hardwood ,oak,elm,maple etc is a choice of wood for heating.Last year people who had contracts for propane and NG got taken because of the so called shortage of heating gas, the company who supplied the contracts reneged on the contracts and sold the customers gas at exorbitant price increases and no lawsuits were filed.People just paid and kept their mouths shut and accepted the price increase of the increased prices.Glad we don't use any gas for heating.
We can get a wood permit from our local forestry office and cut wood for our needs.Right now we have 12 cords of hardwood under our deck from our woods and some from county forest and some from the neighbors who wanted their ground cleaned up for this year. The biggest one this year our 30 ton log splitter almost refused to split it, had to take small chunks off of the piece to get it split,still the log splitter grunted a little and almost quit, first time I have seen that happen. Below we have wood delivered for next year, so we don't have to find a logger who will sell it without a lot of BS excuses as to why it went up in price or is so hard to get that time of year.

Excuse the book length post.Pictures are what we have done for firewood and what we have below us for next year.
LOU

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