Shortage of Wood and Wood Stoves

[turkeydance]

although you and yours may have already "stocked up", here is the latest:

“It’s crazy,” says Randy Hornbeck, the owner of Standing Rock Farms. His sales this year are already 27% higher than his total for all of last season. “Everybody wants firewood.”

“You can’t get a stove until at least April,” says Lakin Frederick, an employee at the store.

Americans Load Up on Firewood as Home-Heating Costs Skyrocket - BNN Bloomberg

Soaring prices for natural gas, propane and oil are pushing many to try heating their homes at least partially with old-fashioned wood

www.bnnbloomberg.ca

 

[noway2]

When certain entities are telling you that you're going to experience a long cold winter and be without power at the same time natural gas and oil prices are skyrocketing, some people listen.

 

[DrScaryGuy]

anybody want to figure odds on the percent increase in housefires and smoke inhalation deaths by spring?

 

[Smgchandler]

Just paid for a central boiler and the wait is couple weeks ! Son sells firewood when he is in from college and I’m sure he has a backlog and not enough split to fill orders so some are listening ! Last heating oil i purchased was 2.09 gal - Price it now 😬

 

[Jp8819]

3300 cords of wood sold a year is a good little pile he handles a year

 

[Diablos]

Time to go back to buying tons of coal?

 

[Crazy Carl]

Propane topped off at $1.60/gal in July, 3 cords of oak & hickory split & piled beside the furnace & access to all the dry oak & hickory I care to help cut & split.

 

[Torn and Frayed]

this makes the pile of stuff I have to do outside today hard