aston man

how much are you paying a tonne?

Call me AL

Nothing,i just cut down what i need from the local National Park.

aston man

im tellin,al pacinos in the woods with a chopper

Nu-Shooz

A flashing chopper in the woods where, where??

Call me AL

I can do you a trailer load for $20 (inc delivery)

ozzieeagle

Thanks I'll have 20

It's circa 280 bucks a ton, here cut and delivered

I can get it by driving to Heathcote... about an hour north of Melbourne for 180 bucks per tonne, but have to load and collect it myself, and split it

aston man

mate its a kind offer but i wouldnt take advantage,itll cost you more than 20 bucks in fuel to get up our hill

Call me AL

Sorry it's an extra $5 a trailer for delivery to Melbourne.

Call me AL

It's ok mate i just take all the fuel I need from work.

ozzieeagle

You have to have a wood cutters license, and it costs a lot, to cut and take wood from national parks in Vic.


Massive fines if you dont and get caught, something like 30,000 bucks.

BadgeIsBack

Here it is 260 and that is split and also includes delivery, but you would have to split it at least once more to burn. They will split it further on request but they won't thank you for it.

A tonne has gone up about 10bucks a year since we got here in 2004.

When I get my camera back I will show you what a half-ton of redgum looks like split. Currently, I have a half tonne of redgum and half a tonne of local gum split and ready to burn when Chief gets back.

Cheers

graz79

We paid $260 a tonne of red gum. Picture of it is on Tiggs blog. It is currently getting wet in the rain...


...did not think it rained over here...who was telling lies

aston man

i know what you mean...

and the baskits never mentioned we would need firewood

ozzieeagle

My wife is always on the hunt for wood, so this time last year, she spotted a fence contractor, pulling down a fence. She introduced herself, and asked the bloke what he was going to do with the fence he was pulling down.... "take it to the tip" was his reply... "why do you want it" ? well to cut a long story short, about 4 hours later, he turns up at our house at our back laneway, with about 50 metres of fencing, mostly just bloody pailings and rails, somehow all the decent parts, the posts, went missing. He then proceeded to offload his trucks contents onto my back lawn... LOL... I guess the wife did ask for it. Took me about 3 weekends to break it up into managable pieces. I got a lot of splinters out of that lot. I've asked her not to do that again thanks

Still cant get into the back half of my shed because of piled up fence pailings lol ! They burn great, nice and hot, but only last about 30 mins a load.

BadgeIsBack

Ditto me about 3 years ago, Ozzie! Now I am VERY circumspect of fencing. And alot of it is painted, too.

Our house is like a dig. Evidence of various piles of crap have been lying around back or front for years. Never completely free of any of it..now is the best in any, being babyfree means I have cleared all the wood lying around.

cheers