fire wood

westernrvparkowner wrote:
...I have plenty of sources for truck loads of firewood. I could even get a firewood permit and go into the national forest and cut it myself. But I have no interest in storing, bagging and stacking a truck load of wood to make a lousy $150.00. For the record, a couple of years ago we stopped campfires altogether. We were more than willing to give up those millions upon millions of dollars we earned, $5.50 a bag at a time. Wasn't worth the time or the effort to buy the wood, unload the truck, sell the wood, clean the fire pits and deal with the complaints about some people's smoky fires and that was pre-bundled wood which was much easier to handle than a truckload of firewood dumped on the ground. Even if we could have tripled the price without a single complaint about price or a single sale lost, we would still make the same decision. The money made from firewood sales was just insignificant in the big picture. There is a reason many national park and national forest campgrounds allow the camphosts to sell firewood and keep the profits. That reason is, there isn't hardly any profit in firewood by the time you figure in the transportation, storage and cleanup costs.

Now you are providing actual, rational arguments on a RV forum. You know that you should not be doing that! It might ruin the beliefs held by many!

I appreciate learning new things. Thanks for sharing your expertise.

As for hauling wood, I have gone to buying local. I lost all my trees in my yard to the Emerald Ash Borer. I respect that moving the wood does risk others.