No shortages of buckets, wood or trailers in the Keith household!
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No, I’m just getting a little jealous, and a wife doing the job.
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I agree Jan. What can we do about it? 
Grandson Walter do help me from time to time. The other week he said: “Grandpa, this is so much fun I wish it will never end” 
But I wonder how long that attitude will last.
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Until his own wood gets to be more fun than yours.
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Tom, I’m afraid I’ll probably get good competition by 14 yo girls within the next 10 years 
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Good morning JO and Jan .
Yes doing the buckets I can get out of wife’s way so she can work .
Now for the big smile !!
None of the wood you see in the pictures come from my land and trees.
When custom sawing for folks there is some small amount in the sawing fee that is for slab ( waste ) disposal .
Yes , Not only free fuel but being paid to use it 
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Yes, Yes, what to say? 
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Haha!
That’s wonderful
Jan, I wonder if we could do the same as a local farmer did back in the days:
His friend just married and the farmer asked to borrow this new wife - potato harvesting was on.
Maybe we could arrange for Wayne to lend us Lisa for chunk bagging - for another minor fee
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What is the price of a chord going for down south Wayne?
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Over the last 8-10 years seems like folks have quite heating with wood . 25 years back it was just about a full time job in the winter for me.
I got $100 for what you see on the truck .
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Prices have gone up here, about 10 years ago I sold fire wood for a living and employed 3 friends doing it. Close to home delivery was 180$ a chord, I’m seeing 375$ right now local you pick up, ouch. That would be the cost of electric heat a few years ago but that has gone up as well
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WOW and WOW! Something like $150 a chord around here.
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With an 8ft Long Bed I’ve seen prices as cheap as 75 dollars a load around here.
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JO, are you sure you got that right? A chord is close to 4m3…
Here it goes for about 270$.
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It’s $50 a rick for mixed hardwood here and $80 a rick for all oak.
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Yes, you are right. Here €100 or more per m3, €400 a cord. Dollar and euro are still almost equal?
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Kristijan, I remember we talked about this a few years back. I was surpriced your firewood was twice the price, with everything else half the price.
1 chord = 3.6 m3
$1 = 9 SEK
Checked a couple adds.
Found 350-400 SEK/m3 = $140-160/chord.
The priciest I found was 100% birch, 2 year seasoned, at 500 SEK/m3 = $200/chord.
Just to clarify, our m3 are not stacked. Usually 12m3 tractor trailers or 1.5m3 bags. Could maybe explain some of the price difference.
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For you Europeans and northerners. A rick is what some of us call a face cord. Here a face cord is 4 foot by 8 foot by 16 inches. three face cords to a chord. Something I learned from down south homesteaders. Never heard the term before that.
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When my dad sells firewood he has a interesting system ( have not done it in a few years since we don’t have a forklift anymore) 4x4 pallets where nailed together into a Rick that would hold a face chord and stacked onto the truck for delivery. 10$ deposit on the pallet with free delivery, if you wanted a refill he would come get the pallet and fill it at home and bring it back and waive the deposit fee as long as you got refills. Some customers would get 3 pallets for a full chord and call when they were halfway through the second one for a refill. Worked pretty well but took up a lot of time to go pickup refill and and deliver. We went to refill on sight out of the dump trailer pretty quickly, several stops a day. When we sold out linkbelt 3400 log loader we shut down that system, couldn’t produce wood fast enough. Dad would grab a 12’ log and hold it centered over the trailer while my brother and I from either side raced cutting rounds that fell into the trailer, we could fill the dump trailer with 2 chords in about 20 minutes. Had a lot of fun, and would love to get back to it someday with a skid steer as another form of income whenever I find some spare time. Been shopping for a old school gas powered skid steer to woodgas for this purpose, they used to be pretty much given away around here. Now that I’m looking for one they have skyrocketed in price along with everything else
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