Firewood cutting time

[Alpine]

Need to stock pile more wood next season. I'm down to less than cord, and Winter keeps pressing on like it's never going to end.

I have in floor heat, and turned off the heat throughout the house except for the basement. Been relying on the wood burner, and it's been keep the entire house warm. I have a lifetime supply of Beetle Kill tree's, so using wood is easy for me, and better than paying for Propane.

[BladesNBarrels]

When I visited Mund's Park just outside Flagstaff, AZ, last Christmas, I met a resident that heated his house with wood.
His house was next to the National Forest with a gate for his truck and trailer.
Permit for wood cutting was $10 per cord.
Wednesday was "wood cutting" day every week. He and his neighbor would go out, cut some trees, and process them back at his house.
He had an assembly-line operation in the back yard with 10 cords in reserve.
He was in his 80's.
I was impressed.

[MED]

I've burnt about nine cords since September, and I have about 2/3 of a cord left to get through May. It looks like I might be splitting this spring.

[encorehunter]

Im down to about 1/3 cord, and I have been supplementing quite a bit by going out and picking it up. I brought in a few bucket loads to the woodshed the other day as well. Im definately going to have to get busy earlier this year.

[Grant H.]

A friend of mine has a second home cabin up by Red Feather, and in the handful of weekends that he and his wife have been up there this winter, they have burned through 4 cords.

It's been a colder winter than we've had the past few years.

[GilpinGuy]

I had to break down and actually buy a cord to get us through. This has been a pretty cold winter. Light on snow but cold.

[Little Dutch]

I didn’t have to buy any, but we burned about twice what I thought we would. I will definitely have to do some harvesting this year.

[encorehunter]

I found out last week our local sawmill has a firewood processor, and a load of about 4.5 cords is $350 delivered. I know I'm going to be having a better supply next year for sure. It's almost not worth my time cutting my own at that price. I still have the fire mitigation to do, so I will still be cutting a lot.

[Little Dutch]

I found out last week our local sawmill has a firewood processor, and a load of about 4.5 cords is $350 delivered. I know I'm going to be having a better supply next year for sure. It's almost not worth my time cutting my own at that price. I still have the fire mitigation to do, so I will still be cutting a lot.

That's a heck of a deal. I have a lot of dead standing that needs removing still, but I think I would save the wear on my truck at that price.

[Hummer]

We have burned about 4 cords this year but are down to about three wheelbarrows of split wood. I've been lighting fewer fires lately. The snow is still a little deep to be cutting trees and hauling logs out. I've got a few cords of apple wood but need to haul it from Palisade. I'll be busy cutting this year.

Many years ago when I lived in Boulder, my next door neighbor was Forest Crossen, a well known historian who authored many books on the mining, railroads, people and places of Boulder County. Forest was in his late seventies, early eighties when I knew him. He burned firewood to heat his house and in his back yard was a large wood-fired steam engine connected by a massive canvas belt that powered a 3 foot buzz saw blade. Every once in a while he would fire it up, whump, whump, whump! I'd help him feed and stack the wood.

Forest had a good garden and didn't appreciate feral cats digging and crapping in it. I'd frequently hear him shooting his .22 rifle, right there on Spruce Street in downtown Boulder. Sometimes I'd visit to check out what he was shooting at. One time we met in the alley, each of us carrying .22 rifles and hunting a certain very bad neighborhood cat. I finally offed it one morning with my Anschutz target rifle and took it to show Forest. The damn thing was long-haired, scraggly, stinking filthy, and it must have weighed 30 lbs. He told me that he'd shot squirrels, skunks, raccoons, a fox and a couple of deer in his back yard garden. I was impressed that he ate the raccoons as well as the deer. One block off of Pearl Street in downtown Boulder.