Re: Moisture meters

On Apr 7, 8:22 pm, "Edwin Pawlowski" <e...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Only?????? The TWO near me are both 45 miles from me and in opposite
directions.

I dunno. Maybe I expect a bit more from our fair city. With out
metropolitan area included, we are knocking on two million folks so I
am thinking since we also serve the lower part of the state for many
goods that we should have more.

One thing we don't have though, is the abundance and pricing of wood.
My BIL is from Ohio, and at last check he was paying $3.50 a bf for
good walnut, and $2 - 42.5 for maple. I don't know what species,
grade or quality, but anything maple around here starts at $4.50 a
bf. And walnut, if it can be found, will start as much as $7 a bf,
and that is a spot market price.

It isn't just playing the market down here. It is taking advantage.
All this started LONG before they could attack the oil/transportation
costs to it as a reason. They get their prices because they can.

My BIL tells me of magical places called "tree dumps" where they take
large old trees. I know what they are, but no one else around here
does. He has found cherry, oak, maple and walnut a the dump by his
house.
They mostly cut it up for firewood unless the logs are too big, then
they just leave them.

I have heard him talk of cutting permits, where the public can cut
fallen trees on public land for a $15 annual permit. He said most
just wait for the wood to show up at the dump since they can get the
logs with the branches cut off and the logs in manageable sizes.

If you are from my area of the map, you ask yourself "How can any
place have that much hardwood? They put the fallen, cut logs in a
dump?"

I know it has been that way up there for too many years to count, but
never around here. An industrious soul like myself would be glad to
go cut my own wood if someone would let me. We just don't have it
here. That means that even at exorbitant prices, we still run out!

Robert
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