You saying you charge $120 per truckload, meaning a pickup truck? People pay that? A pickup truck load is about one face cord, 1/3 of a cord. Unless you have a big bed and stack high. If they pay $120/facecord unprocessed, hmmm...
I'd agree, unless someone has an unlimited supply of free trees and doesn't mind cutting them down. A 22" tree = 1 cord of firewood.
Not unprocessed. Can come out of the truck and go right in the stove if they want. Split/stacked at least a year. I'd do truck loads of rounds for 40 or 50 bucks but these folks only call me when they run out and need wood now. I'm not a firewood seller I don't advertise so really it's an inconvenience for me to run them a load of wood because they ran out. I have no idea what a truck load of split 12 month seasoned wood go for around here but there happy with my price so that's what I get for it.
If someone is willing to pay $120 per truck of good wood, that's awesome. I sold for $65-75, depending on how long a customer had been with me, and felt like I was undercoating most of the time. Bit there were some folks around that would sell a load of fairly "fresh wood" for a little over the price of a couple of bottles of wild Irish rose or mad dog. Wood was no qhere near the quality of mine, but was still a form of competition. When I used to sell lots of wood, at least once or twice a season I'd have a someone contact me literally as the snowflakes started flying saying they heard I sold wood, they were out and needed some for the bad weather. Usually there was some bs sob story involved...I was young and took them wood for normal price. That got old quick...I finally made the rule that if you call me for "emergency wood" close to a storm hitting, the price was at least 1.5 times higher for the load. My good customers planned well in advance and never pulled that bs.
A buddy of mine delivers HHO, and every year when the first big snow storm comes he gets inundated with emergency orders. All the old ladies "are going to run out" if they don't get oil before it snows... and they are rarely even close to needing fuel. Then when the price is high, he gets "$50 dollared to death" because everyone wants the minimum fill...
I don't/won't sell truckloads. I get $125 for measured face cords of mixed seasoned hardwoods (plus delivery). Nobody ever even hinted that it was too much. They just reach for their cash.
What's the minimum fill? Around here its 100 gallons last I knew...not sure where prices are now, but I'm sure that it would be much more than $50/min fill...
I think from what you're describing I'd be tempted to do exactly what you are. $10.00 per tree you pick what you want really isn't much. If I could add to my winter fuel supply for that little bit of money I'd do it too. Now as far as flashlights, chainsaws, & tools, if we're gonna have that conversation, I'll go start counting & get back to you in a month or so.
No kidding, the guy that fills my off road tank can pump 3-400 gal in a 10-15 minute stop. It would take longer to unroll & re roll the hose than pump 50 gal.
That's pretty much the practice here. 100 gallon minimum. If the driver can only get 75 gallons in there's a $25 or $50 surcharge, or they charge more per gallon for less than 100 gallons. I used to have auto delivery with a local company , but they started delivering oil any time the price peaked not just based on degree-day usage. I went elsewhere, getting the pay cash at delivery rate and started burning more wood.
If they are good sized trees and you are basically paying $10 a cord that might end up being less effort or time spent scrounging. I guess it depends on how tough scrounging is or isn't in your area.
Well, I usually have more trees to cut down for friends and random strangers and from posts of facebook than I have hours in the day. But, they usually involve clean up and concern for tearing up yards or hauling rounds a long distance to the truck. Or, the already dropped tree with 8" -28" rounds which require a lot of extra trimming.
I get one fill of oil per year and only get between 100 and 150 gallons. That is my summer fill and the oil company is OK with it. No delivering here in bad weather and most of the time they are paid before they leave.
Sounds about where I would have guessed...according to a HHO price monitoring site Ohio is at $3.27/gall average right now. Ouch...glad I don't use much more than 5-10 gallon/year anymore!
Yup, if I'm out I just smile n wave...he waves too...but it looks like the poor guy had a nasty accident and lost most of his fingers!
