Oh fuck, just to add… The pine boards I just bought from Home Depot said “product of Sweden” and it was the cheapest boards they had that were suitable for my project.
How come I’m paying a nickel a foot for your lumber but you’re paying an arm and a leg for your own raw timber? That’s some bullshit, man. The world is weird.
Yes, here too if you get creative. One season, I paid a local tree service company $100 bucks and they dumped their logs in my yard. They were 8 foot long sections, anywhere from 10-inch diameter to 3 feet diameter (Pacific Northwest). I bucked it all down with a 16" inch gas chainsaw and split it with a maul. Took forever. My hands and back ached at bedtime every night. But when I was done, i had three-plus cord stacked and drying all for $100 bucks.
Nothing beats the forest permits tho. A lot of work, but the price is worth it.
You’re right. I have no idea about that. How would I?
Last time I bought a cord of wood, split, ready for the fire, and delivered, i think it was in the ballpark of $300 USD. But that was a long while ago in the pacific northwest.
Pellets are a scam, man. Wood fuel for a standard wood stove is all around us. In the states, I can pull a forest permit for like $40 and go harvest enough firewood for the winter. It requires effort and sweat equity, but all good things require that.
Somehow, they created pellets (made from sawdust – the byproduct/waste of the mill industry) and sold this generation on the convenience, but now a necessity for life is a commodity and they can fuck with the cost as much as they want. Eg temps drop to single digits so price of pellets go up equals maximum profits. It’s the bottled water equivalent of wood heating.
Ditch the pellet stove for wood stoves.
Everyone keeps pointing out exceptions to the rule. Obviously enfeebled elderly folks benefit from pellets if their children/grand children arent hacking down trees for them.
It’s like me saying “prepackaged single serving items are a scourge on the planet” and then someone clapping back about how they’re disabled and need single serving pre cut apples or pre-peeled bananas or some shit. Like, yeah, of course in that situation it makes sense.