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  • Re: Hey there

    From hollowone@21:2/150 to deon on Sat May 31 12:56:58 2025
    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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  • From hollowone@21:2/150 to dflorey on Sat May 31 13:00:37 2025

    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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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to hollowone on Sun Jun 1 09:00:39 2025
    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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  • From hollowone@21:2/150 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jun 1 12:01:49 2025
    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 ;)

    -h1

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