Comments on: A Truckload of Logs — Our Winter Firewood Supply http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/ About finding balance in your life, connecting with who you are, and creating a lifestyle where you wake up each morning eagerly anticipating the day ahead. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:29:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris S http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-96334 Chris S http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-96334 I like the website, some great ideas for sure. I did the fire wood by the truck load this year too. I live in Ottawa, Canada and paid $1200 delivered with taxes and all. I got about 6.5 to 7 bush cords and it took me 3 weeks to cut it all in 16" pieces via a chain saw about 1.5 to 2 hours a day. I then rented a 2-way splitter (Splitfire woodsplitter - awesome little timesaver machine) for $113 for a full weekend. It took 2 adults about 12 hours (24 hours total) to split it all in one weekend. Plus about 1 gallon in gas for chain saw and splitter. I assume I got about 35 face-cords out of the truck load. So after $1200 for the wood plus $113 for the splitter rental and $400 for the chain saw and the $5 in gas and oil I spend about $50 a face cord. If I buy it, it's about $100 on average for split and delivered mixed hardwood, 16" long. If I would figure in my $50 net pay per hour it's only a workout though. Since I don't count the time, I see it as great savings and great activity! I hope this is a great feedback about what it costs and what I got out of it here in Ontario, Canada. I like the website, some great ideas for sure.
I did the fire wood by the truck load this year too. I live in Ottawa, Canada and paid $1200 delivered with taxes and all. I got about 6.5 to 7 bush cords and it took me 3 weeks to cut it all in 16″ pieces via a chain saw about 1.5 to 2 hours a day. I then rented a 2-way splitter (Splitfire woodsplitter – awesome little timesaver machine) for $113 for a full weekend. It took 2 adults about 12 hours (24 hours total) to split it all in one weekend. Plus about 1 gallon in gas for chain saw and splitter. I assume I got about 35 face-cords out of the truck load. So after $1200 for the wood plus $113 for the splitter rental and $400 for the chain saw and the $5 in gas and oil I spend about $50 a face cord. If I buy it, it’s about $100 on average for split and delivered mixed hardwood, 16″ long. If I would figure in my $50 net pay per hour it’s only a workout though. Since I don’t count the time, I see it as great savings and great activity!

I hope this is a great feedback about what it costs and what I got out of it here in Ontario, Canada.

]]> By: Lisey http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-38209 Lisey http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-38209 Thank you for this lovely and informative site. It's a real jem. I'm jumping into a simplistic Wisconsin winter. This is really helping! Thank you for this lovely and informative site. It’s a real jem. I’m jumping into a simplistic Wisconsin winter. This is really helping!

]]> By: ScrimplyThrifty http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-27590 ScrimplyThrifty http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-27590 I love the way you think! and I'm loving your website. I do that with just about everything, think if there is a cheaper alternative to what I am buying in a different form. You are giving me some great ideas! Keep up the good work! I love the way you think! and I’m loving your website. I do that with just about everything, think if there is a cheaper alternative to what I am buying in a different form. You are giving me some great ideas! Keep up the good work!

]]> By: Ed & Rhonda http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-18123 Ed & Rhonda http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-18123 Buying logs by the tractor/trailer load is the only, way we buy our wood. Out here in the Rockies of Montana, it is as easy to find a Logger who will haul all you want as it is to build a fire! lol. We buy the full pole length. 50 to 60 feet and off 1 truck we average 8 to 9 cords, a true 4x4x8=128 cubic feet cord. When we place a oder with a logger we know, we go ahead and buy 5 truck loads. We do not burn that much in one full year, but we do burn half that. We have more than enough under roof storage space for all we buy and split. We know we are lucky in the respect we can do this and have as much land as we do. We live off the grid at right about 5700 feet up. God bless everyone Ed & Rhonda Buying logs by the tractor/trailer load is the only, way we buy our wood. Out here in the Rockies of Montana, it is as easy to find a Logger who will haul all you want as it is to build a fire! lol. We buy the full pole length. 50 to 60 feet and off 1 truck we average 8 to 9 cords, a true 4x4x8=128 cubic feet cord. When we place a oder with a logger we know, we go ahead and buy 5 truck loads. We do not burn that much in one full year, but we do burn half that.

We have more than enough under roof storage space for all we buy and split. We know we are lucky in the respect we can do this and have as much land as we do. We live off the grid at right about 5700 feet up.

God bless everyone

Ed & Rhonda

]]> By: Polly http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-9577 Polly http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-9577 Come to my neck of the woods! We had a big storm hit here in Southern IL and there is firewood for the taking at nearly every house and several dump sites where the county is burning the felled and uprooted trees by the tractor-trailer load. I hate to see this slash and burn clean up effort knowing the four trees we had to pay $3800 to cut down or remove could be heating someone's home. I'm also salivating over your wood stove. I want one but don't have anywhere to put it nor can we afford it. Come to my neck of the woods! We had a big storm hit here in Southern IL and there is firewood for the taking at nearly every house and several dump sites where the county is burning the felled and uprooted trees by the tractor-trailer load.

I hate to see this slash and burn clean up effort knowing the four trees we had to pay $3800 to cut down or remove could be heating someone’s home.

I’m also salivating over your wood stove. I want one but don’t have anywhere to put it nor can we afford it.

]]> By: John http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-9124 John http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-9124 Great looking load. You will use less wood if you get a couple of years ahead. Most hardwoods don't drop to less than 20% moisture until after splitting and then 18-24 months. Great looking load. You will use less wood if you get a couple of years ahead. Most hardwoods don’t drop to less than 20% moisture until after splitting and then 18-24 months.

]]> By: Casey http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-9068 Casey http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-9068 This is so cool! How long do you think it will take to cut up all those logs? This is so cool! How long do you think it will take to cut up all those logs?

]]> By: Stephen T. http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-9067 Stephen T. http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-9067 I think you guys have a great attitude: see what's needed, take steps to acquire it, don't be afraid of some hard work. We don't burn wood any more, but back when we lived a little deeper in the country it was our main source of heat. I have many fond memories of working with my wife and sons splitting and stacking our firewood. Thank you for taking me back a few years. I think you guys have a great attitude: see what’s needed, take steps to acquire it, don’t be afraid of some hard work. We don’t burn wood any more, but back when we lived a little deeper in the country it was our main source of heat. I have many fond memories of working with my wife and sons splitting and stacking our firewood. Thank you for taking me back a few years.

]]> By: Rosemary G. http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-9066 Rosemary G. http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-9066 That must have been really exciting, watching those logs get delivered, I wish I could have seen it myself in person. DH and I burn wood and we have the same problem you mentioned, the pieces are kind of on the big side, even though we always put in a special request for them to be smaller. Most of the pieces still fit in our stove, but just barely, you have to be careful putting them in. I wish we could get our own logs delivered and cut them ourselves, but that just isn't going to happen, and besides with our small house I think a load of logs that big would last longer than we will!! Thanks for a great post and some great photos, this is why I love to read Choosing Voluntary simplicity. That must have been really exciting, watching those logs get delivered, I wish I could have seen it myself in person. DH and I burn wood and we have the same problem you mentioned, the pieces are kind of on the big side, even though we always put in a special request for them to be smaller. Most of the pieces still fit in our stove, but just barely, you have to be careful putting them in. I wish we could get our own logs delivered and cut them ourselves, but that just isn’t going to happen, and besides with our small house I think a load of logs that big would last longer than we will!! Thanks for a great post and some great photos, this is why I love to read Choosing Voluntary simplicity.

]]> By: Jack http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-9064 Jack http://www.choosingvoluntarysimplicity.com/a-truckload-of-logs-our-winter-firewood-supply/#comment-9064 That sounds like a great idea. It's cheap compared to the alternative and the hard work you guys will be doing will make you appreciate the wood during the winter. Jack That sounds like a great idea. It’s cheap compared to the alternative and the hard work you guys will be doing will make you appreciate the wood during the winter.

Jack

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