Good place to cut firewood
 

I was wondering if anyone has any tips on where to head in the West Country to get at some firewood to cut? I usually get a cut permit and head west of water valley, but the terrain is a bit tougher than I can do this year as I am recovering from a September broken ankle that required surgery. I usually embrace the hiking and work and really enjoy the exercise but the leg just can’t do it this year-but the rest of the body can. And of course quad isn’t allowed to drag. Preferably from hiway 1 north to 11. Where I live there’s a beautiful women behind every tree, and I’m down to a couple cords that don’t last me a winter. TIA.

I'd say anywhere out near sibbald on powderface trail. It's the TM66 Area - Elbow River map if you are looking on the forestry site. The gate is closed on the road, but you should be able to find a spot before the gate.

Maybe try giving my buddy Dave at Dave's Tree Care in Didsbury a call.

You can get an entire semi load of Birch logs dropped off at your house for a few hundred bucks. Then all you have to do is buck it up and split it. Way cheaper than hauling it yourself and you won't risk messing up your ankle.

Any Contacts for This?
 

PM anyone doing this for a few hundred. I'm in.

Exactly the price he quotes is from 1971. :snapoutofit:

I think paid $1,100.00 for a load of Pine (not birch) about 6 years ago delivered. Sure wasn't $200.00

wood
 

It will be very rough on you if not in top physical shape. Lugging 500 lb birch logs through 3 feet of snow takes a very strong body. Birch at $400 a cord these days and very little available $1100 a load seems quite a bit low unless someone is stealing it from a cutblock.
Lastly your woodcut permit is for a designated spot in forest only.

They are logging powderface currently. Might be worth a drive in there for some salvage as long as your not in the way.

Tried that, very dirty logs and hard on a chain saw. K country ? better be sure to have a permit. Normally, they won't even let you pick up dead stuff for a camp fire.

Grizz

Permits are under 10 bucks, we’ll worth getting one just to be safe

Okay, you are right, a load costs about $1,500 these days. When I was buying the wood around Calgary I knew a guy with a log truck and picker, and was getting a load for less than half that. Admittedly it was 6 years ago now. Even without the buddy discount, it is still FAR cheaper than hauling that much wood yourself. But if you want to do it the hard way:

Description
FILL YOUR TRUCK FULL OF LOGS
LOCATED NEAR CHESTERMERE
$100./PICK-UP TRUCK LOAD - CAN BE DELIVERED LOCALLY403
PH: 403-617-2007

Drive to a mill if there’s one local and buy cut off ends. I think it’s 40 bucks for box load and 80 for a trailer load.