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Red Robin

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What do you burn in your wood stove? Cow chips? :lol: I don't see much timber in your pictures. How much does a rick or a cord of wood cost in your area? I'm cleaning up some hayfield edges and low hanging limbs and a couple down trees. It's 30 or 35 a rick here delivered. We have so much wood available it's rarely sold in the cord. (no one cares to cut your wood 18inches long or 24 inches long. ) Here we're selling a little labor and giving the wood away I guess.
 

Tap

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:wink: :wink:
 

Red Robin

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Well tap I guess you don't have to holler timber when they fall. :lol: It'd take quite a few of those trees to make a winters worth up there I bet.

lilly you have timber around there too right? Seems pretty steep to me. There's always alot of slash around here you can cut wood on if you want for nothing.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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maybe I should have said "town folk" are payin that for wood. Alot of them have fire places but don't have the access to trees to cut, so they buy their wood. Mr Lilly has a cousin that can sell as much as he can put on a trailer in just a few hours if he takes it down around Houston.
 

Red Robin

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
maybe I should have said "town folk" are payin that for wood. Alot of them have fire places but don't have the access to trees to cut, so they buy their wood. Mr Lilly has a cousin that can sell as much as he can put on a trailer in just a few hours if he takes it down around Houston.
I've heard that about Dallas as well. Sounds like your cousin has a good deal going. I still don't like wood cutting regardless of the price.
 

Cowpuncher

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We let an older gentleman come on our property to cut down the hundreds of gambel oak we last in the drought of 2002.

He is wholesaling the wood for $225 a cord and the retailer is getting $450.

I am not sure who is buying it as there is a ban on wood fireplaces here in the front range of Colorado.
 
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Cowpuncher said:
We let an older gentleman come on our property to cut down the hundreds of gambel oak we last in the drought of 2002.

He is wholesaling the wood for $225 a cord and the retailer is getting $450.

I am not sure who is buying it as there is a ban on wood fireplaces here in the front range of Colorado.

Must be Ted Turner or Bill Gates at those prices :wink: :roll: ...I thought the guys trying to get $100 a cord were nuts...
 

Tap

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For anyone that was not able to tell, I posted a picture of sagebrush. I got to thinking that some folks might not know what it looked like. Just goofing around. We have pine fairly close, but burn cottonwood some, or pitch or cedar posts. I don't like to burn pitch other than for starting a fire, as it is too dirty.

We are too far from any population for me to know what a cord of wood is worth. I would be one tired guy if I had to gather enough sage to keep this house warm. :wink: :lol:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Tap....it might not keep it warm...but it would smell SOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!!

We don't burn pine in our fireplaces either, makes too much suet(sp) build up in the chimney. We burn hardwoods, numerous types of oak, hickory, pecan. We do use pine knots for kindlin tho.
 

Hanta Yo

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We have all kinds of dead ponderosa pines we would LOVE to have anyone come up and cut some of these dead pines down...too much summer fire fuel...

Time to cut is NOW before everything gets totally wet :?
 

Red Robin

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Tap said:
For anyone that was not able to tell, I posted a picture of sagebrush. I got to thinking that some folks might not know what it looked like. Just goofing around. We have pine fairly close, but burn cottonwood some, or pitch or cedar posts. I don't like to burn pitch other than for starting a fire, as it is too dirty.

We are too far from any population for me to know what a cord of wood is worth. I would be one tired guy if I had to gather enough sage to keep this house warm. :wink: :lol:
I wouldn't know sage brush from a tooth brush. I knew you were kidding but I was still curious. Thanks for sharing. We , like Lilly, burn hardwood. Oak, Hickory and the like. Mostly Red Oak and White Oak.
 

IL Rancher

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We don't have a fieplace in the house we are in now but when we lived in the old house we burned oak for the most part because I just got some from my dads place and he has had a few 100 foot tall oak trees go down in the past 15 years or so and lets just say those old oaks have LOTS of wood in them...

If we were to harvest around here we have enough hickory, hackberry, Osage Orange (Good golly that stuff will melt a wood burning stove) and some oaks and maples as well. Lots of walnut too but you don't cut that to burn...

but we also have lots of white pine that was planted 50 years ago or so that is starting to get blown down and replaced by hard woods so I might just thin the pines and burn them... WE are buying a wood burner for the shop this winter so we can be warm out there. Allthough to be honest all things being equal I would think a corn burner might be easier.
 

Nicky

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Hanta Yo said:
We have all kinds of dead ponderosa pines we would LOVE to have anyone come up and cut some of these dead pines down...too much summer fire fuel...

Maybe we'll bring home a load when we come :p

We haven't even started to get wood yet. We have to get wood permits from the forest service ($5.00/cord) as we only have sagebrush on our place. We try to get Tamarack, or red Fir, sometimes get black pine. Can't cut Ponderosa pine on the Forest. No such thing as hardwoods here :roll: Wood sells for about $100.00/cord if you buy it.
 

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