Wood you sell your Wood @350 a cord?
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Hmmm interesting question. I am a die hard scrounger. I have two and a half year's worth that I have cut split and stacked by hand. Since I have limited storage, if I would sell at that price but only if they picked it up...........oh yea just picked up eight nice rounds of Honey Locust, heavy and wet. Two years they will be gold!
have about 20 cord(4x4x8) 4 years spit and stacked- mixed( there is another 20 besides of various vintage), but prices are less than the number suggested by the op. so i will sit on it. no delivery either - that's just too much work - load truck or trailer then off load and likely have to stack it in some out of the way spot , uh-uh ain't gonna happen. Evey so often someone buys a 1/3 of a cord or trunk full. Don't think I have every sold more than a full cord in a year. don't go out of may way about either. It's just that is so hard to part with all that sweat equity .
Here hard wood sells for 325 to 350 a cord now
So what's the big deal ?
You sell it for what the market will pay !
So what's the big deal ?
You sell it for what the market will pay !
JRHAWK9
Minister of Fire
From a strictly monetary standpoint if you have to purchase wood. At $1 a gallon of LP, $210 per cord of Red Oak, 92% LP furnace efficiency and 80% wood furnace efficiency....it would theoretically cost the same to heat with wood vs LP.
So, in my case where LP is currently $1 a gallon and I don't have to purchase wood, I could heat with LP and come out making ~$140 every cord net after paying the LP bill if I sold it for $350/cord.
Now if your are paying $2 per gallon for LP, then you'd have to get $420 per cord to break even.
This question all depends on where you live and the price of heating fuel in your area.
So, in my case where LP is currently $1 a gallon and I don't have to purchase wood, I could heat with LP and come out making ~$140 every cord net after paying the LP bill if I sold it for $350/cord.
Now if your are paying $2 per gallon for LP, then you'd have to get $420 per cord to break even.
This question all depends on where you live and the price of heating fuel in your area.
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Yes... I'd sell it for half that amount. Around here it's pretty easy to come by...just gotta make sure it doesn't cross state lines.
BillLion
Minister of Fire
I process wood to save money on my electric bill.
That said, I don't enjoy it enough to want to do it for profit.
I might give some away to someone who really needed it, but none of my family or neighbors burn wood and aren't likely to start.
That said, I don't enjoy it enough to want to do it for profit.
I might give some away to someone who really needed it, but none of my family or neighbors burn wood and aren't likely to start.
BillLion
Minister of Fire
I just don't think it's easy to make a profit on selling wood unless you have professional processing and delivery equipment. Even then the margins seem thin. But that's coming from a non-pro perspective.
Update. Sold my first cord ever yestarday for 350 delivered. Wasn't exactly easy money but for that price it was worth it to me. Also selling one more cord today for the same price.
I am still two years ahead but this will motivate me to keep cutting and scrounging.
The old saying is true. It's like money in the bank...
I am still two years ahead but this will motivate me to keep cutting and scrounging.
The old saying is true. It's like money in the bank...
NHcpa
Minister of Fire
I live 20 mins south of Bow... Have paid $175 a cord past few years and $150 for as long as I can remember before that. Ripoff at $350 - unless DRY (not seasoned). Even DRY, I would still demand a bow on top at $350.
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BamaScroungr
Burning Hunk
In my area firewood goes for $200 to $250 a cord with few exceptions, but I'd rather scrounge and process it myself than pay for it. Since I split everything by hand, there's no way I'd sell my firewood for any sane price. But if I ever move to a house with central heat, I'd consider selling it off.
A quick craigslist check - wow prices are high there.
$280-$350 here and the $350 might actually be fairly well seasoned as well seasoned as it gets in a huge pile.
Not anywhere near the number of people selling as in the past though.
No signs stapled onto telephone poles or grocery store bulletin board offers either.
Yeah well you know what? I COMPLETELY agree with you. Hell its the only reason I am selling it! I put the ad up there figuring if anyone wanted to pay that much I would sell it. And so far I have had 6 people interested. I have had to turn down 4 of them already as I have sold the only two extra cords I had without digging into next years wood.
I am not forcing them to buy this wood at this price. I think its stupid. I would rather use the oil boiler at that price.
With that said, I sold them very good wood. 2 year seasoned red/white oak and true cords of wood. One of the guys l sold to lived in a 620k dollar house and was burning it in his fireplace. so I don't really think the cost was a big burden on him.
One more thing to note, With firewood sellers selling wood at this price, its making it harder for those of us who scrounge or buy log length. as there are virtually no more free scrounges available and even log length wood has gone up in price.
hopefully more people like myself will start to sell off some of their wood and flood the market a bit so the firewood dealers will start dropping their prices to be competitive.
hopefully more people like myself will start to sell off some of their wood and flood the market a bit so the firewood dealers will start dropping their prices to be competitive.
claydogg84
Minister of Fire
$350/Face cord? Are we talking about gold, or firewood?
I would donate wood to a few elderly familes who still burn wood before selling it. I don't care what anyone says, no cord wood is worth $350 plus. I hear ya, the prices here in NH are insane right now and have been for several years. Not sure whats driving up the price, especially this year with the low oil prices but I want no part in fueling greed. I drive past the orange trucks cutting and dropping trees by the side of the road, they gladly let you grab it unless it's in front of someone house and wants it. If you really have to get rid of it, see about bartering it out to someone for a half a moose quarter, or to a local lobster man for some lobstahs!
If I could get 350 a cord, Id quit my job, buy a wood processor and sell wood full time.
I can buy a cord of white ash cut split and delivered for $120.00
I can buy a cord of white ash cut split and delivered for $120.00
BillLion
Minister of Fire
I'm not sure why anyone would even bother selling it at that low of a price
Not surewhats driving up the price, especially this year with the low oil prices -
From what I'm hearing from a guy I work with who has neighbors in the business... The demand for wood is being driven by the wood fired power plants in NH (part of governor Shaheen's renewable energy push) there is big money in cutting, skidding, and trucking logs to the plants. This is cutting into the normal wood supply to the lower parts of the state, as the price is worth trucking much further than it is for firewood.
Then add the demand of pellet mills and that market is controlled by paper Mill prices for chips.
Laws limiting wood movement are gonna keep it crazy for a while in NH.
In MA the movement rules and effect of the NH market are keeping prices up.
From what I'm hearing from a guy I work with who has neighbors in the business... The demand for wood is being driven by the wood fired power plants in NH (part of governor Shaheen's renewable energy push) there is big money in cutting, skidding, and trucking logs to the plants. This is cutting into the normal wood supply to the lower parts of the state, as the price is worth trucking much further than it is for firewood.
Then add the demand of pellet mills and that market is controlled by paper Mill prices for chips.
Laws limiting wood movement are gonna keep it crazy for a while in NH.
In MA the movement rules and effect of the NH market are keeping prices up.
I would be mighty tempted to sell at that price.
If I could CSS a full cord every day I could beat out my full-time desk-job on pay rate selling for that. I enjoy cutting & splitting wood... I would enjoy it more if I could make a nice chunk of change doing it.
That being said, I wouldn't jeopardize my personal heating to make a buck. I generally tell people I don't sell firewood. The only time I've let any go from my stacks was to help a friend that was hard up for seasoned wood. He was ignorant to the fact that the wood people sell as "seasoned" isn't really seasoned so his first winter he had a hard time finding truly seasoned wood. I gave him quite a bit...
If I could CSS a full cord every day I could beat out my full-time desk-job on pay rate selling for that. I enjoy cutting & splitting wood... I would enjoy it more if I could make a nice chunk of change doing it.
That being said, I wouldn't jeopardize my personal heating to make a buck. I generally tell people I don't sell firewood. The only time I've let any go from my stacks was to help a friend that was hard up for seasoned wood. He was ignorant to the fact that the wood people sell as "seasoned" isn't really seasoned so his first winter he had a hard time finding truly seasoned wood. I gave him quite a bit...
jatoxico
Minister of Fire
With oil prices down and a mild winter predicted the demand may be down soon.
gleblanc1783
Member
I remember reading an article not too far back about why the price of wood is increasing -- it has something to do with the Fracking they are doing out in NY, etc. When they move the large machines through the woods, they buy logs to put down and drive over. Apparently the people that normally sell the wood for fuel, can get a better price from these fracking guys.
Found it ((broken link removed))
On a separate, but related note -- I bought my seasoned hardwood (not sure of species, should probably get on that...) for $350 a cord delivered. Since it was our first year with a stove/burning I wanted to do it right. I already have about 1.5 cord sitting in the yard as we speak drying for next year...
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