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Firewood Retailer - Nipawin, SK Rachel Young

04/22/2026

Big thank you to my customers for another great firewood season!

No deliveries available now until after the crop is seeded.

Please take note that there will likely be an increase to prices if the price of fuel does not smarten up. As always I try to keep costs low on my end but unfortunately petroleum products play a large role in getting firewood from the bush, processed, and delivered to you ready to burn.

02/03/2025

Anyone else done with winter? I sure am!

Too much time and energy moving snow lately.

Looks like winter is going to stick around a bit longer though.

Thank you to all my new and old customers that have kept me more than busy so far this season. Lots of new faces as the referrals speak for themselves - so thank you so much!

I am all out of seasoned tamarack for the winter. Pine still available at $300 per cord delivered local to Nipawin.

Cut, split, and stacked into cord boxes for measurement. I don't believe in the consistency of tumbled volumes - so know that I spend the extra time and effort to ensure that you get what you pay for. Price also includes taxes.

I will be cutting and splitting tamarack for next winters burning soon. I don't sell what I wouldn't burn in my own stove, and the last lot of logs that came in seemed a bit greener than I hoped for.

Give me a call or send me a message 306-830-8600 if you need a little more firewood to make it through to the end of the season, or if you are wanting to vouch for some tamarack for next year.

Keep warm, we are almost to spring!
Rachel

07/18/2024

Christmas in July? No.. BUT dare I say.. Winter is coming?

Sure didn't feel like it today in the heat!

Delivering tamarack to a couple good neighbour's and repeat firewood customers. They are feeling ahead of the game getting their wood sheds filled up now before everyone gets busy in the fall at harvest time.

If you know that you're going to need some firewood for heating this winter, make sure you give me a heads up ahead of time so I can ensure you get it before you need to light that stove this fall!

Pine or Tamarack , cut and split for $300 per cord. Each lot is stacked into 1/2 cord or 1 cord boxes, so you get what you pay for - no tumbled measurements.

Local to Nipawin includes delivery. Anywhere further out there is an additional delivery charge to help me cover fuel and my time.

Rachel Young
306-830-8600

06/26/2024

Getting excited to put up some pine!

Thank you Kris for being my trucker

02/15/2024

Nothing like a little -30 overnight to remind us that we are not out of winter just yet!

Crazy temperature swings this year, but overall we've had a pretty mild winter to say the least.

02/08/2024

As I drank my coffee and got our wood stove rolling this morning, I pondered the age old debate of tamarack vs pine for home heating.

All of the pine firewood that we bring into the yard is harvested as standing dead. We purchase the logs that the processors in the bush sort out as "garbage" that would be normally dragged back into the forest for decomposition or burned in piles.

The tamarack that we bring in is often characterized as the same. We also have a head saw on site that we use on any green tamarack that we sort out to create lumber that we use around the farm or sell to livestock. producers that they then use for windbreaks.

I have a wood moisture tester in my toolbox, and will bring it out if ever in doubt. Most of the standing dead firewood has next to no bark on it, which is also a plus for handling. If it has lots of bark on it, chances are it is still green and should be seasoned.

Since we heat with firewood here on the farm, we do have a pecking order on what we burn where. We only burn tamarack in the house, as it is the most efficient and creates the least amount of chimney creosote buildup. Ashes are minimal.

We burn all the cutoffs, short pieces, and anything I deem as cull through the shop. This means that my customers only get the best blocks in their orders. I also collect all the shards of wood as kindling - so my waste usually consists of a pile of bark at the end.

If you normally burn pine and have always been timid of tamarack, I encourage you to give it a shot. Knowing your stove and how to control your airflow is the key to maintaining that optimal burn temperature.

Here's a really good article to ponder:

https://www.ecohome.net/guides/2322/burning-the-right-firewood/

01/30/2024

Beauty of a day to be building a beauty of a pile of tamarack!

I love cutting tamarack. The trees are often nice and straight, and the colorful growth rings are pretty to look at. The wood is denser than pine and the blocks split nice and crisp.

01/23/2024

I like to play this game with myself when I'm putting up firewood - I try to guess the volume of the tumble stack off the conveyor.

10/10 I am always short when stacking it into the cord crates. Tumbled volumes are a bu**er to guess, and since I'm sorting tamarack out of pine on the log deck, the pre-cut and split volume is also difficult to judge.

Well today I finally did it! I better buy a lotto ticket! 🤣

01/06/2024

There's always that one..

These "bull pine" as we refer to them are a huge pain the butt when it comes to processing. The log length processors in the bush are not able to do a really nice cleanup on the thick gnarly limbs. If I want to cut this log into firewood, it needs to get kicked off the carriage and cleaned up nicer with the hand saw. You can do an okay job cleaning it up at this level, but all those gnarls make it a pain to roll, even with a log wrench. Even then, the blocks look terrible and are a pain to stack.

It's a huge slow down to production, so in my operation they get kicked off and piled to be bucked up on the ground and burned thru our outdoor fire pit at the farm or at the lake.

Trees that are given lots of space to grow will form thick branches like this. Although ideal in your driveway or yard, they are not fun to work with once they've completed their life. So if you have trees to remove and hope that someone will take them out for you for the cost of the wood, it is probably not going to be a commercial operator that is going to jump at the opportunity.

12/21/2023

Happy Holidays from our home to yours!

Thank you so very much to everyone that has supported my firewood business this year.

I have surpassed last years volumes already this winter - and this is all thanks to my amazing family, friends, customers, and acquaintances. All of my sales of been a result of referral and word of mouth. Having been involved in marketing in my previous experience, I know that this is the best form of advertisement that a business can ask for, and for that I am forever grateful to you.

I've been saying that I will take some time off when it snows, but since that doesn't seem to want to happen, I will be taking some time off thru the Christmas break. I do have wood "on deck" if someone is desparate in need to get them thru however I will not be filling large orders at this time. They will wait until the new year.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Cheers,
Rachel

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