Firewood is expensive

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Just got back from our first outing this season and you are not kidding the firewood is getting expensive -- and we thought only Gas and milk were getting expensive!!  

It takes GAS to run the chainsaw, and MILK to run the operator, so it'll come back to bite!

Larry

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We live in the city, and although we have a wood yard, we are also in an area where wood is considered "expensive" by our standards.  We have found though, that so many people in the city that trim their own trees etc, do not keep the wood, or have fireplaces.  So, as we drive around town, we note where someone has been downing trees, or trimming large limbs etc.  Brian takes the truck back over, and takes what we can use.  People just pile it on the curb here, and call the city who comes and picks it up and mulches it I believe.  We always ring the doorbell and ask, and people look at us like we are nuts for some reason.  I just explain that we camp, and would love the wood for firewood, and we seldom have anyone that says no don't take it.

We now have two very large piles of wood in front of our garage door waiting to be split and stacked.  We take wood along, even though we have a van, it is a passenger van, not a conversion anymore, so we just put down a piece of plastic, and put a stack of wood in the back.  We have room, since all we really put in the van is wood, bikes, and odds and ends, most everything else goes into the camper.  We can camp in the truck, but with all the seats full of people, and a large antique camping chow who would be completely forlorn if she didn't come along, the van has so much more room.  We even have plenty of cargo capacity with the back seat removed, since it still seats eight even without the back seat we have plenty of seating, as well as cargo room.