Firewood sells for $5 a bundle in the grocery near my house. A couple of years ago I saw a guy buying two bundles and figured correctly he was camping in the nearby forest.
I told him if he had 10 minutes to spare I would sell him a whole trunkload for $10. He agreed and when he saw my woodpile he said, “at the store price you have about $10,000 sitting here.”
Here in Indiana, the Asian ash borer invasion has killed all our ash trees. At least the ash makes good firewood.
Unfortunately, at the new Compound, open burning is a real [and severe] risk to lighting up the ‘hood.
In the middle of Winter and with a foot or more of snow on the ground, a “social” fire is OK.
Gorebal Warming B darned, it’s a problem....
One time I looked at the packaged firewood they sell at the grocery store. A 0.6 cu. ft. bag sold for $5.99, which works out to $1277.87 per cord. I don’t know what kind of wood it was, looked like a softwood. What a racket.