Still doesn't stop the convenience stores around here from bundling 5-6 pcs of wood and selling it for $9-10 bucks. There are rubes everywhere-even in the sticks where I live.
Got three ricks of wood cut, split and stacked out of the weather on Monday and Tuesday. As I look out in the storm this morning at the log pile I'm thinking I've got another couple of cords to do easily.
Those little firewood bundles at convenience stores always make me laugh when I see the price. You could gather double that in broken limbs in about 5 minutes. My FIL has a funny "rule" when camping (not strictly enforced, people do it because they think it's funny), anytime you leave the fire, for any reason but mostly to get another beer or get rid of some used beer, you have to come back with a piece of wood for the fire. A branch of any size satisfies his "rule". Here, a cord is about the only thing that has an actual footage that people are familiar with. A cord of red fir or tamarack goes for around $220 to $230, $240-$250 if split. Mixed, mostly white fir and pine, goes for around $130-$150 a cord, maybe $160-$170 if split. If it is some other kind non-native wood from a tree someone took down near their house it usually is in a rick or jag along the curb with a "free, you haul" sign on it. A rick here is simply a stacked row of wood, such as a single row across the bed of a pickup about as tall as the sides. A jag would be an unstacked pile of wood and can be a wildly varying amount.
