|
|
Post by bill9068 on May 8, 2020 11:33:36 GMT -5
What is a pickup truck load of Hickory going for? My son had this fall and destroy his Gazebo. He’s wanting to sell after we cut firewood and wood for our smoker.  |
|
|
|
Post by welder on May 8, 2020 11:46:02 GMT -5
What is a pickup truck load of Hickory going for? My son had this fall and destroy his Gazebo. He’s wanting to sell after we cut firewood and wood for our smoker. $60 |
|
|
|
Post by jbird on May 8, 2020 16:11:20 GMT -5
A face cord of unseasoned fire wood your gonna get about $50 to $75 bucks for. Unless you can find some yuppie in the city to pay more. You will have a couple of face cord/ricks there. I hope you have a log splitter.
|
|
|
|
Post by esshup on May 8, 2020 16:37:03 GMT -5
I can call my cousin. He sells hickory to BBQ places that use if for cooking. He sells by the half or full cord. NOT a pickup load. (Cord is 4'x4'x8' stacked, not piled)
|
|
|
|
Post by gumbootbill on May 8, 2020 18:21:53 GMT -5
I been paying $50.00 for a 4'x 8' rick of white oak and hickory.
|
|
|
|
Post by esshup on May 9, 2020 16:46:09 GMT -5
I been paying $50.00 for a 4'x 8' rick of white oak and hickory. How long are the pieces of wood in your rick? |
|
|
|
Post by gumbootbill on May 9, 2020 18:04:19 GMT -5
16 to 18 inches. some are 15" some are 20" most are 16 to 18 inches. I have an Ashley wood furnace can take a piece 24" long no problem.
|
|
|
|
Post by SFC (R) B on May 9, 2020 23:55:10 GMT -5
One of the times I miss home......hardwood (mostly just Gambel Oak) out here will go for at LEAST $450 a cord. I have been lucky a couple times to find half a cord or so in firewood cutting areas on Ft Carson and hoarded it like gold. Firewood out here is pine, spruce, aspen and a bit of pinon here and there.
|
|
|
|
Post by duff on May 10, 2020 5:08:24 GMT -5
One of the times I miss home......hardwood (mostly just Gambel Oak) out here will go for at LEAST $450 a cord. I have been lucky a couple times to find half a cord or so in firewood cutting areas on Ft Carson and hoarded it like gold. Firewood out here is pine, spruce, aspen and a bit of pinon here and there. Lol, I have a few cousins in CO Springs. One is a woodworker and 2 like to smoke meat. The availability of our hardwood made them jealous as we sat in the shadows of Pikes Peak....in July with no humidity. That was 2017 when wildfires were bad. They banned fireworks. I told them to come to Indiana and we can sweat profusely while we load up a trailer full of lumber and smoking wood, swat skeeter, have a real bonfire and blow up fireworks like real Americans do. They haven't been here yet....I dont blame them |
|
|
|
Post by bill9068 on May 10, 2020 11:43:11 GMT -5
 Got a lot of it cut up and split. There are two racks here and two more on the side of my garage, both 20 ft long six ft high. |
|
|
|
Post by bill9068 on May 10, 2020 13:47:46 GMT -5
 Just went and picked up another load of hickory to split. |
|
|
|
Post by treetop on May 10, 2020 14:08:17 GMT -5
That will keep you warm for a while 👍
|
|
|
|
Post by SFC (R) B on May 10, 2020 14:12:50 GMT -5
One of the times I miss home......hardwood (mostly just Gambel Oak) out here will go for at LEAST $450 a cord. I have been lucky a couple times to find half a cord or so in firewood cutting areas on Ft Carson and hoarded it like gold. Firewood out here is pine, spruce, aspen and a bit of pinon here and there. Lol, I have a few cousins in CO Springs. One is a woodworker and 2 like to smoke meat. The availability of our hardwood made them jealous as we sat in the shadows of Pikes Peak....in July with no humidity. That was 2017 when wildfires were bad. They banned fireworks. I told them to come to Indiana and we can sweat profusely while we load up a trailer full of lumber and smoking wood, swat skeeter, have a real bonfire and blow up fireworks like real Americans do. They haven't been here yet....I dont blame them Yep. Between the lack of humidity and bugs, the mountains, and all the different furry creatures to chase here it would be VERY difficult to leave. Whenever we come home in the summer we leave here zero dark thirty and when we stop the first time in Kansas it is like getting hit with a hot, wet blanket  As for bugs.....I don't even shut the screen door here in the summer, just leave it open for the dogs to go in and out. |
|
|
|
Post by duff on May 10, 2020 14:38:10 GMT -5
Lol, I have a few cousins in CO Springs. One is a woodworker and 2 like to smoke meat. The availability of our hardwood made them jealous as we sat in the shadows of Pikes Peak....in July with no humidity. That was 2017 when wildfires were bad. They banned fireworks. I told them to come to Indiana and we can sweat profusely while we load up a trailer full of lumber and smoking wood, swat skeeter, have a real bonfire and blow up fireworks like real Americans do. They haven't been here yet....I dont blame them Yep. Between the lack of humidity and bugs, the mountains, and all the different furry creatures to chase here it would be VERY difficult to leave. Whenever we come home in the summer we leave here zero dark thirty and when we stop the first time in Kansas it is like getting hit with a hot, wet blanket As for bugs.....I don't even shut the screen door here in the summer, just leave it open for the dogs to go in and out. Yep so nice out there. |
|
|
|
Post by jbird on May 13, 2020 12:58:39 GMT -5
We never had a splitter when I was a kid.....we did it by hand with a wood maul. That thing would wear you out! Dad would say, "that's the best kind of wood....warms you more than once!" I hated splitting wood!
Your wood will season better if it gets some good air circulation thru it. Right now it's considered "green" or "unseasoned"....and that may matter to some folks and not to others (it being split will help with the seasoning process as well). It will have to go thru a winter before it is considered "seasoned"....the only real difference is the moisture content in the wood. Back when we burnt wood I was told we "HAD" to burn seasoned wood in the house. I think it impacts the build up in the chimney. For those burning it outside - I doubt it matters.
Not sure if others have had this happen but around here post beetles LOVE hickory wood for some reason. They bore holes in the wood....so if you wood starts getting little piles of what looks like saw dust in it....you likely have been visited by post beetles. Also be aware that wood piles are great places to harbor other bugs and snakes....so you may want to keep them away from the house. Short term is probably fine....but long term...not a good idea.
|
|
|
|
Post by omegahunter on May 13, 2020 14:15:32 GMT -5
Wood stacks near the house just invite termites.
|
|
|
|
Post by bill9068 on May 14, 2020 12:07:20 GMT -5
No bugs no termites, I treated with chlordane years ago and now about every 5 years. It was outlawed because it worked too well in preventing termites. Luckily I had a few gallons from years ago.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 12:28:46 GMT -5
Looks like you are 3-4 feet from the house per the back wheels of the mower. Being on concrete should be little or no terminate or insect issues I would think..
|
|
|
|
Post by bill9068 on May 14, 2020 12:58:05 GMT -5
To clarify this is the garage where the wood is stacked.
|
|
|
|
Post by bill9068 on May 14, 2020 15:28:38 GMT -5
Looks like you are 3-4 feet from the house per the back wheels of the mower. Being on concrete should be little or no terminate or insect issues I would think.. No termites since I built the garage 10 years ago. I purposely built a extended overhang to keep the wood out of rain and poured the concrete so it wouldn’t be on the ground. |
|
As for bugs.....I don't even shut the screen door here in the summer, just leave it open for the dogs to go in and out.