Hey Saw Techies.. Fixers... doctors

[Dale]

I've been curious to ask this question. With the way heating prices have skyrocketed, I am seeing folks turning to woodstoves like you wouldn't believe. Are you guys seeing an increase in you businesses as a result ???

I'm thinking of selling some firewood next year. Guys are getting $180/cord delievered around here. That's not too bad.

 

[stihltech]

wood

Yes, it has been a VERY good year in the shop.

 

[clearance]

Go for it Dale, all you need to start is something like a Chevy/GMC 3/4 ton, 1 ton from the late 70s and a couple of decent saws, 372XP, 066, 394, 460, 288XP kind of thing. Let er rip, good luck to you.

 

[RaisedByWolves]

And a splitter.

 

[clearance]

Thats right Wolfie, a splitter too Dale, just use a maul or a sledge and wedges. Something I found out was to high grade the wood, I fall it across the road and buck it till the branches start, leaving the top in the bush. Then there are no ugly knots, some blocks you just show em the axe and they split, some others.....

 

[TimberPig]

Thats right Wolfie, a splitter too Dale, just use a maul or a sledge and wedges. Something I found out was to high grade the wood, I fall it across the road and buck it till the branches start, leaving the top in the bush. Then there are no ugly knots, some blocks you just show em the axe and they split, some others.....

That's a common practice, but don't let MoF catch you doing it, the firewood regs state you have to use it down to a 4" top just like it is supposed to be for logging. You're also supposed to use it down to a 12" stump unless prevented by butt flare. Funny thing is, most firewood cutters have so little clue how to fall a tree properly that most stumps are waist high butcher jobs even in wood with no butt flare .

 

[clearance]

That's a common practice, but don't let MoF catch you doing it, the firewood regs state you have to use it down to a 4" top just like it is supposed to be for logging. You're also supposed to use it down to a 12" stump unless prevented by butt flare. Funny thing is, most firewood cutters have so little clue how to fall a tree properly that most stumps are waist high butcher jobs even in wood with no butt flare .

Timber-who is the mof? oh yeah, Mother_______ out fishing. Like I care, anyways the best firewood show I ever did was behind locked gates for Hydro, while I was at work on hourly removals, we got the work done so fast, no ropes, just undercut backcut, I had to do something to round out the day. They don't have mof down there they got some thing else, probably the same, skinny guys with ponytails and new government bought caulks that never did a hard days work in thier life, I know, I've seen it. And yes, many firewood cutters reveal themselves by the stumps they leave, how true, fallers NOT.

 

[Tree Sling'r]

I guy I went to school with has a fuel distribution business and said kerosene sales which was once his bread and butter is down 65% from two years ago. Around here the draughts the last 10 year has left us with lots of snags. I usually haul home a few rounds each day from during the summer and it adds up. We have a monitor as well as wood heat.

 

[THALL10326]

I've been curious to ask this question. With the way heating prices have skyrocketed, I am seeing folks turning to woodstoves like you wouldn't believe. Are you guys seeing an increase in you businesses as a result ???

I'm thinking of selling some firewood next year. Guys are getting $180/cord delievered around here. That's not too bad.

Great year for Exxon, bad year for the old oak tree..................

 

[West Texas]

But burning wood is not easy in some places. In Denver, CO they post daily news as to whether you can burn firewood or not. The downdrafts off the near by mountains in certan kinds of winter weather, can bury the city in smog if too many people are buring wood at that time. Also, if there is a high pressure system stalled over the area, the smoke just sinks down over the city.

 

[stihlatit]

I've been curious to ask this question. With the way heating prices have skyrocketed, I am seeing folks turning to woodstoves like you wouldn't believe. Are you guys seeing an increase in you businesses as a result ???

I'm thinking of selling some firewood next year. Guys are getting $180/cord delievered around here. That's not too bad.

Natural gas just went up by 25% here in Ontario. That should drive a few towards wood.:greenchainsaw:

 

[Lakeside53]

Natural gas just went up by 25% here in Ontario. That should drive a few towards wood.:greenchainsaw:

After my early December power bill doubled over last year, the wood stove has been on 24x7... and the furnace only once when we left the house to friends for a weekend... Used 7 cords so far this winter, and a month or so to go...

that reminds me... need to go cut some more wood....

 

[alderman]

Just paid the February electric bill, $66.00 and it was a cold month. We heat mostly with wood but have electric backup.
One thing I noticed, cutting firewood can turn into quite a hobby and as such I'm always throwing money at one contraption or another. And I'm always looking for another saw.

 

[Zodiac45]

Firewood usage

Same for me in Maine,

I've got a 200yr Old Sea Captain's house on the coast of Maine. Big old gal with 3 chimneys. The first, in the kitchen is a fieldstone fireplace on one side and a Glenwood C cookstove on the other. The middle chimney is two flue's, 1.the oil furnace (steam) in the basement and 2. and an Alagash wood heater. the far chimney has a Jotul cast iron stove on the hearth fired by propane and vented up the flue. I've used 4.5 cords thus far since Oct. and got too say most of through that Glenwood C. It's a huge hunk of iron and heats a large space, plus cook on er too. The smaller firebox needs "stove" sized wood but I have a splitter. We've had a relatively mild winter here and the oil doesn't kick on till maybe 2am too 7am. I've still got 2.5 cord in the barn and 6 outsidein rounds for next year. I like to stay 2 years out and will split the 6 and gather the rounds for 2007 this summer.

Zee
PS: My oil "budget plan" I've still got $1200 too the plus, so no payments to those boy this year.