On 13 Apr 2025, deon said the following...

Re: Hey there
By: Avon to All on Sun Apr 13 2025 05:36 pm

Hi all.

Howdy,

I lugged firewood in tonight and I think later this week we'll certainl using it... a cold snap is forecast in the next 1-2 days.

Curios how expensive firewood is for you?

I love the open fire, but firewood here is just ridiculously expensive.

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Yeah, I'd be interested too... On average in east Vic I was seeing firewood advertised at an average of around $180 per cubic meter, I was getting it for between $120-130 last two years - going through an average of 5-6 per year.

We've had some rather narly weather over the last year bringing down some
large trees in the area, so I go "help clean up" by means of collecting what
I can when I can.

On boxing day night we came up our road around 11pm to find a dead tree had blown over across the road - closing it up. We drove around the other side of the mountain, I tucked the wife & kids into bed, changed into PPE and went on
a battery chainsaw frenzy - cleared up the road, have been going back to the same tree every now and then cutting more of it up and lugging it home.

So far I have about 2 cubic meters of mostly dry firewood and another 2-3
still to be cut & left out to dry

I still expect I'll be buying a load or two over the next few months...
Last winter our local hardware store was selling 20KG bags of good redgum for $15-20 which aint too bad, so I still have a couple of them bags here too...

Our fire is the main heating for the living areas and the main bedroom,
whereas I installed mini-split ACs in the kids rooms, so they can heat / cool their rooms and they're fairly cheap to run.

This week's weather is definitely on the cooler side...

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Re: Re: Hey there
By: dflorey to deon on Mon Apr 14 2025 09:53 pm

Howdy,

Yeah, I'd be interested too... On average in east Vic I was seeing firewood advertised at an average of around $180 per cubic meter, I was getting it for between $120-130 last two years - going through an average of 5-6 per year.

How far "east" are you?

When I look around, I'm seeing around $380m3, or $550 or so a tonne. (I'm south east melbourne.)

I'm obviously looking at the wrong places...

Actually I just looked in gumtree - looks a little better at around $230m3...


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How far "east" are you?

When I look around, I'm seeing around $380m3, or $550 or so a tonne.
(I'm south

east melbourne.)

I'm obviously looking at the wrong places...

Actually I just looked in gumtree - looks a little better at around $230m3...

Just past Warragul, behind Yarragon.
Them prices are VERY high!!

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Curios how expensive firewood is for you?

I love the open fire, but firewood here is just ridiculously expensive.

Haven't had anything to do with firewood for a long time, but I recall a time, when the family ordered it by the ton... rolled in on an 5-8ton truck... but it was a wood stove with water heating so you needed something to burn year round. Can't have been hiddeously expensive back then, it was being purchased by a pensioner.

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Curios how expensive firewood is for you?
I love the open fire, but firewood here is just ridiculously expensive.

It used to be expensive during covid like anything. then normalized a bit in my country and now a cubic of oak and similarly caloric wood is about eq 100 bucks.

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So far I have about 2 cubic meters of mostly dry firewood and another 2-3 still to be cut & left out to dry

I do the same, I usually burn about 2 cubic meters in the winter season but I always stack up to 4 in fall so I always have at least 2 seasons dried up and something that can still dry up and come up stashed less expensive. I always cut instantly on arrival or get it cut to fit in both for storing and burning in my fireplace. Space optimization I'd call it.

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hollowone wrote to deon <=-

It used to be expensive during covid like anything. then normalized a
bit in my country and now a cubic of oak and similarly caloric wood is about eq 100 bucks.

I have a landscaper who's a bit of a barter-er. He trades work for work
with some people and has a community of like-minded people. He comes by
and thins out the bamboo he planted at our house, then re-homes it in
someone else's back yard. He came by with some aloe plants he'd thinned
out from another yard, "borrowed" some extra sprinkler hose from one of
my jobs and came back with some wonderful pots in exchange that he
thought my wife would like. She loved them. This even carried over into pastries - he ended up with 4 or 5 of those big costco-sized boxes of
pastries and was giving them to all of his customers.

He called me one day and asked if I wanted some firewood. He's traded
something for it and had more than he needed, and just charged me for his travel time. I ended up with a good 1/4 cord of seasoned wood and a
backache from carrying it down 2 flights of stairs...




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I have a landscaper who's a bit of a barter-er. He trades work for work

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He called me one day and asked if I wanted some firewood. He's traded something for it and had more than he needed, and just charged me for his travel time. I ended up with a good 1/4 cord of seasoned wood and a backache from carrying it down 2 flights of stairs...

Nice story! ;) I'm always equally scared and amazed by these types of people.
I love their sense of freedoms... at the same time it just testes my limits of understanding weirdness ;)

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