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    I would think in the areas that had recent ice damage in general cordwood prices may go down. I know it still is a lot to work it up but there will be some people who have downed trees that they will cut up for fire wood when ordinarily they would not cut there own wood and would have bought it. So I think for a year or so the prices should come down. supply and demand. There will be a big supply and less demand
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    I was going to get a grapple load of tree length this summer and it was going to run me $1200-1300 an 8 chord load. Thought that was pretty high when cordwood was going for $200-225 green. Fortunately I never got it because the week after the tornado came through and I ended up with 5-6 chord of good hardwood for free, minus my labor.

    Not sure what prices are now, but I'll be looking for a load this spring to get it cut/split/stacked for next winters home heating wood. I hope they come down. That high of prices for grapple loads is hard to justify when I can pay a little more and have minimal labor.
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    you can get a truck and pup for about 700 down here im thinking of doing it and selling wood this summer
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    Wish i had a big truck to go around picking up the trunks of the trees that are down here. I cut up 3 cords already at the girlfriends with probably another 2 to go and about 1 at my house with a little more to cut too. The streets are littered with trunks and not just soft wood some big red oaks. Fire wood will surely go down here at least initially.
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    I had a customer in today that said the mills had stopped the loggers from hauling in , a logger had just stopped to see if he wanted to buy a truck load
    for $100. a cord tree length.

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    hardwood pulp prices have tanked...they were really high this summer and into the fall since firewood demand was up - and pulp is the main comptetor for firewood- so prices for both were up...

    now pulp prices have dropped from $45 per ton to $28 per ton at a local concentration yard.

    cordwood prices are likely to go down- not that I want them to- but its likely.

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    Default to load of logs

    Here in St.Marys,Pa. Atri-axle load of logs (green) goes for $650.

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    Up here 10 cord was $1000 last year log length. Two years ago I paid $50/cord log length

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    loggers here are filling the pulp yards just as fast as they can before they get cut off. I would assume that the price of fire wood will go down after that. Up here a wheeler load 8 cords is still a 1000.
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    Around here there are no pulp yards. tri axle loads are still 1000.00 we can't buy logs for my mill there worth more as firewood. Most have lowered the price of firewood to 175.00. When fuel started down the phone quit ringing for wood.I had thought that after the first of the year things would die I was right. I have never had to make more work just to keep my employees busy. In 27 years of running a mill I have never had to look for something to do. I hope the new president can do something I don't know what. But I wouldn't want his job! There's no short term answer.

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