Fire wood flamin' pricey
BLAZING fires are becoming blazing harder to fuel as firewood becomes an increasingly scarce commodity in the wake of summer floods.
Cutting has dropped up to 80 per cent, with regular Riverina harvest areas long out of action due to access problems.
Suppliers are having to travel further for stock and relay higher costs to consumers.
One Geelong district dealer said yesterday any stock that did come in was usually already pre-sold, but industry leaders have assured people they shouldn't be ripping out fireplaces just yet.
"It's like the banana rule they'll come back down and get available again," Firewood Association of Australia public officer Alan McGreevy said.
"Things will hopefully come back to normal."
Prices have risen to $300 a tonne, or two ute loads, for redgum.
Brendan Gleeson of Moolap's Riverina Redgum Firewood Supplies has more than 2000 tonnes of stock sitting in his yard but said he was travelling 200km further to secure wood this year and costs had to be relayed.
"Last year, I finished at $260 a tonne it's gone up considerably but it will drop back down next year," Mr Gleeson said.
"I believe it has to, because I think I'm finding in the past month my sales have plateaued a bit and I suspect that could be to do with the prices.
"It could be the weather, too."
Mr Gleeson said he was one of few operators in action year-round and had been able to buy up ahead of the shortage.
"I'm probably the only yard in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales that would have stockpiles," he said. "I knew it was going to happen.
"I've been doing it for 20 years and I generally stockpile anyway."
Average firewood-heating households consume about three tonnes each winter.
Mr Gleeson estimated his sales had risen 30 per cent in the past decade, but he was unsure if the main factors were more wood fires, fewer people cutting their own fuel or his capacity to handle more stock.
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BLAZING fires are becoming blazing harder to fuel as firewood becomes an increasingly scarce commodity in the wake of summer floods. Cutting has dropped up to 80 per cent, with regular Riverina harvest areas long out of action due to access problems.
The Carson Ranger District on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest is selling personal use permits to cut dead trees for firewood. The cutting areas include the Dog Valley area near Verdi as well as the Leviathan area between Monitor Pass and US 395
Someone might get some firewood out of it, I guess.” But Kesler said clearing the fallen timber is apt to be treacherous. “When you cut bent and twisted wood like that, it can release a lot of energy, almost like a spring,” he said.
He doesn't want us to cut a tree on public or private lands to clear a location, even though a gas well could safely yield energy for years. I presume he doesn't want us to cut fire wood either. Find some pictures of the area from the turn of the last
He hoped to salvage it for firewood. "Can't let it all go to waste," he said. Next door to where Bear Shield worked, Heather Ketcham and her son Eli Lenning sat on the front steps of their home. Their house had escaped damage.
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