Since you will either be in your home most likely without power or have to bug our during a disruptive event, you will need a good supply of firewood. You will need to use it to build a fire to keep you warm, cook your food or even to signal for help. Collect firewood for the season can be tough and usually requires a large amount of money. However, if you follow these steps you can get a year's supplies for less than twenty dollars!
The Steps For Getting A Year's Supply Of Firewood Include:
Get a permit
Firstly, one of the really good things we have here in Montana is that the U.S. Forestry Service allows residents to pick up a permit (every April) to cut fallen dead and standing dead timber. The permit runs $20 for four cords, and you can pay $60 and take up to twelve cords. That’s a heck of a lot of wood, and dirt-cheap! I’m not sure what it is in other states, however, I am certain that many of them have the same policy.
This is the best time to prep for next year’s cold weather
All of the undergrowth has not yet emerged from its winter hibernation, so it is relatively clear to work. I have much of it that I take where it is not permissible to take a vehicle and load up in the forest itself. My way around that is to cut my wood, stack it up, and haul it out with a garden cart.
The reason for the wood gathering is twofold. Firstly you’re laying in your supply for next winter. The early bird gets the worm. You’ll be able to pick up the best wood for yourself when most others are not even thinking about anything except their weekend trip to the beach. Secondly from a prepper’s perspective, is the “What If?” reason.
How to estimate how much wood you will need
If you have not done so already, now is a good time to estimate how much wood you will go through in the wintertime, and then estimate how much you would need to have a fire/woodstove burning 24 hours a day. In the summertime it is significantly less, but take your winter consumption and double it, just to be on the safe side. Typically, a cord of wood is 4 feet wide x 4 feet high x 8 feet long stacked and adds up to 128 cubic feet. As well, the cords may consist of whole logs or split logs. Here is some great information on how to estimate cords of wood from a standing tree.
Invest in a good gas-powered chain saw,with at least 5 extra chains, and plenty of rattail files to sharpen them when you need to. Remember, you don’t want to buy cheap tools. Always look at these as a necessary investment, because they will be a lifesaver in an off grid situation.
Firewood is one of the most important supplies to have for when SHTF. You can use it to keep warm, cook food, as light when there is no electricity and even to boil water if you need to treat any wounds or have safe drinking water.
This is why following these steps for getting plenty of firewood will help you be better prepared for when any kind of collapse or power outage occurs. If you have enough firewood you'll be all set for months to come!
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Craig’s list haha
CA is $10 per cord
Ummm, cut down a tree and cut your own wood? I know, I know, it’s work. But some of us still do that stuff. ….
Cedar don’t burn long ..
Misleading!! yeah $20 for permit,20$ chainsaw gas, 20$ for gas for truck,10$ chainsaw oil. $70 dollars for the first trip up the mountain!!
It is called work!
Cut down your own tree. That’ll do it. Of coarse they don’t show it split which a whole different thing. Try to split that wood with a splitting maul….go ahead. And give a year to season or else it won’t burn.
Don’t need a permit where I am. A chainsaw cost anywhere from $100 to $900. So you’re right there…with the expense of it. I think the idea here was the sustainability of cutting wood for heating and cooking. If you’re really off the grid, propane and gas will not be around.
Live near the woods and go for a walk..
Go find a sawmill they’ll give you all kinds of wood but it will cost more than twenty to haul it
Curbs
Getting so you can’t burn wood anyway so wow
$20 gas and chainsaw oil
Buy an ax
For under $20 you can buy a saw
It’s called get off your$#%&!@*and cut yourself.
get off your$#%&!@* buy a saw and go cut it yourself thats how
ppl burn wood in cali???
Not if the hippies have a say in it.
Lol misleading only to morons. I was hoping a crybaby would come out to play.
Or just go on Craigslist and haul out all the free fire wood you can…. and it’s free with working
Daniel Fischer you can really cut a whole winters worth of wood for $20 with what your handsaw and cart? That’s what I thought go eat$#%&!@*
You need; chainsaw, truck, wood to cut and the insurance…nothing cheap there….
Lol have your own land lol
10$ a cord? Up here it’s 250 a cord delivered- we go thru about 6 cords a winter, but I cut my own and burn slab wood from my saw mill
Hurricane mathew just gave us acres of fire wood from God.