I love using pecan. It's like a lighter, mellower hickory. I live in Albuquerque, NM and pecan is $325 a cord - and is hauled in from Texas.
This is the part I can't figure out, and neither can the wood supplier. If I drive about 140 miles south, there are thousands of acres of pecan groves.
I can drive by the pecan trees and see piles of limbs on the ground in mid-winter when they're trimming the trees, and they refuse to sell it for less than $350 a cord, and you have to come and cut it up.
Yeah, it's more expensive and more work to buy it locally than have cut splits trucked in from Texas...
I don't get it...
Anyway - lucky you and your pickup truck load!