I feel bad for ya Bub. I have been ripped a few times on wood too after I stopped cutting it and started buying it. 

So cords are back in fashion?  Who knew??!

craigb

So cords are back in fashion?  Who knew??!

You just made me have a flashback that I wish I didn't have. :)

When I was a kid, in the mid 70's, we were dirt poor. One time my mom went 'school clothes' shopping for me in the local 5 & Dime. She came home with 3 pair of these brown corduroy bell bottoms and these black hard healed shoes that were kind of like boots, but not. The school had wooden floors and I sounded like one of those Swedish clog dancers walking across the floor. It was mortifying, even for the 70's.

Get gas logs.  Period.   Then ya don't have to worry about wood, ashes, transportation, delivery, bugs, storage, carrying the logs, sore back, broken bones from slipping on the ice while carrying/stacking....PLUS your truck will love you more.

I had my gas logs installed about 6 years ago... best $1300 I ever spent!  AND... they nearly heat my entire house since the flue can be kept shut.  Great during a power outage!!

tbosco


Get gas logs.  Period.   Then ya don't have to worry about wood, ashes, transportation, delivery, bugs, storage, carrying the logs, sore back, broken bones from slipping on the ice while carrying/stacking....PLUS your truck will love you more.

I had my gas logs installed about 6 years ago... best $1300 I ever spent!  AND... they nearly heat my entire house since the flue can be kept shut.  Great during a power outage!!

We're probably going to do that when they get natural gas out here ... right now we're stuck on propane and it's expensive.

I'm on track to use $600 + a month ... in Iowa when we were on NG ... in the dead of winter, maybe it was $100 ~ $125.

The other problem is, this house isn't insulated in the attic. There's only a couple inches of blow-in insulation and it's 20+ years old. Nobody has ever added more to it since the place was built. We're getting it done on Dec 19th and we're keeping our fingers crossed that it will make a dramatic improvement. We're getting R49 of the new kind of fiberglass stuff that doesn't settle and is non-allergenic.

I hear ya...  My house is 27 years old, has decrepit insulation, and we have no gas in my neighborhood.  I got a 100 gal propane tank.  I use about 2.5 tanks a year.  Just turn it on on really cold days or often for a few minutes to knock the chill off in the room.

I live on a small mountaintop in TN, and it gets pretty cold here Nov-Feb.

I have no attic access.. grrrr.  You'll love the logs if ya get 'em.

But hey-  who needs heat when ya got a room full of guitars, keyboards, DAWs, speakers...  LOL!  Actually, my gear heats my little studio quite well!!!

You can't tell if you have a full cord until you get it stacked out of the truck. The measurement is? It escapes me at the moment.

Crg

You can't tell if you have a full cord until you get it stacked out of the truck. The measurement is? It escapes me at the moment.

Well ... a cord of wood is 128 Cubic Feet. Doesn't matter how you stack it, but most people stack it 4' deep x 4' tall x 8' long. There's a couple of common ways people stack it, but that's one of the most common.

The previous owners of the house we just bought have a place set up to stack a cord directly off the back porch. I didn't fill in that space with the wood they gave me. I measured what I did get stacked and it's 3' tall x 2' deep x 13' long. That comes to 78 Cubic Feet.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out ...

He said he was going to "send a couple of his guys to my house" but they never showed up. I called him back and reminded him of my address and asked if "his boys" got lost. Heh. Ya know ... if it was off by a little bit ... hell, even half a truck load, I wouldn't bust his balls ... but a full truck load and a half ... that's not right. Frickin' rednecks man. The only thing they understand is a shotgun in their face, and since I ain't the kind of person to do that, I always get screwed by these morons. He didn't even know how to figure out the Cu/Ft when I gave him the dimensions ... and this frickin' guy runs one of the largest tree cutting services in the KC area. It's unreal, absolutely unreal. LOL

The owner isn't here in Mo. right now ... ya know where he is? On the East coast on a 'mission' with his church helping out from the natural disasters. And he steals from me and lies through his teeth. What a hypocrite. I wonder what his 'church' would think of this if they knew what he was doing?

Ooop ... coffee's done. Gotta scoot. :-)

This story reminded me of our local sawmill..they call themselves 'Merchants of Character' on their sign...I call them 'odd'.

I ordered a quantity of fence posts for a job a couple of years back, waited all afternoon and they never showed with the order.

I called them up up and the guy said ''oh yes, it was delivered this morning''

''No'' I replied ''it's definitely not here''.

''Oh, it'll be there somewhere'' he answered.

(the 'it' being forty 8' x 3'' x 3'' posts...difficult to hide, eh?)

''I can assure you, it ain't''.

''Hold on'' he said, ''I'll come over and show you where it is''

Half an hour later he pulled up in his van, got out and walked around the site for about 5 minutes.

''Well...you're right'' he said, all surprised..''it's not here!''

Here he is;

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out ...

 
I think I would have just taken a picture of the wood and gone back to get the rest and told him the measurements and showed him the picture.