What happened to cooking with wood?

[jaynik]

Ah. The purity debate. I'd love to have enough wood and the right smoker to smoke that way, but I don't have either. Most of us are doing this for fun and good food.

 

[nh3b's]

$275 a cord......thats what happened!

Ill agree I like to cook with 100% real wood.....real wood, real flavor.....but, its expensive and wasteful. Im just now starting to play around with lump.

Thank God I live in an area I go to the dump with a load of pine and come out with an oak/maple tree someone threw out. I love New England.

 

[chadpole]

Let me get this straight.......White Cloud you can buy a 4' tall x 4' wide x
16 ' long stack of seasoned,split firewood for only $50.00 bucks!!! Around
Georgia I sell it for 215.00 a cord. Anybody that works for 8 hours cutting trees to length,splitting that wood, and stacking that wood for $50.00 is a idiot. Now a face cord of wood is 4'x18" x8 ',which will fit in a long bed pick-up truck. That runs $80.00 if you pick it up yourself.

 

[goat]

Hey Big Al,
When I lived in Western Kansas, I had to bring mesquite from home to have bbq wood.

 

[gunslinger]

A cord is 4' high, 4' wide (3 rows) and 8' long, not 16' long. A face cord or "rick" is 4' high, 8' long and 16" wide or one row wide. A "rick" or face cord is 1/3 of a cord. Any wood chopper worth his weight will sell splits ONLY 16 inches long.
A full size pickup holds 1/2 a cord.
Those measurements are indisputable and are the standard nation wide.
A cord here in SW Missouri is selling for 125.00 per cord. That's down a bit because of the ice storm January of 07.