Firewood prices ramp up around region. Seen this earlier today, figured everyone may like to see it. I sure wish I could get that kind of a price out of a cord of wood where I live.
Prices are up but I wonder how many will pay that much? I am seeing wood selling here for $60 per face cord. A few are $65 but they don't sell much at that price.
A 5% increase actaully seems low considering the fuels to cut, process and deliver the wood all went up 200%.
I've never sold a cord (and probably won't). I've been selling face cords for $125 plus delivery. Looks like it's time to raise the price!
Pretty much 75 for a face cord around the U.P. If you look, you may find the 65 price but getting to be pretty rare. Earlier this summer, one supplier with a processor, sold red oak for 65 a face cord. I'm thinking he's cleaned out of that by now! Last week I was talking with a logger (a driver I think) and we touched on the fact that truckloads have been at $100 a cord (full cord) for a number of years now. 8' lengths.
Ive gone up 10% on bundle orders. Half cords up from 140 to $160. Ill deliver free within five miles and roughly $2.50 mile after that. Went up $5 for stacking on half cords. Looking on FB/CL i dont see other sellers going up, but are they shorting customers and/or selling underseasoned wood??? Most are repeat customers.
Haha yeah 5% isn’t much of an increase. But at least the news story used a giant font to make the story more exciting! I knew fuel prices had skyrocketed, but had some actually tripled?!?
The link went to WCAX, that’s a very local channel that price is for kiln dried a significantly up charge. Still find CS delivered around here for $250 a cord
Greater Burlington Is the largest city in Vermont about 125k people realize that most of the lots in the town are 75 x 100 Most Vermonters figured out that you need dry wood. Therefore if you have to buy it you dont have the room to store it makes more sense to buy dry wood than wet wood. Also In the state to get Lye heat $, for low income persons; the fire wood has to be below 20% moisture content. Therefore he has the high and low end of market!
I'm selling at $150/ face cord delivered. I should be at $165, but not sure how the market will take it.
I am at $265 a face cord for white oak delivered in the Nashville area. $25-30 of that is my diesel delivery expense for a single rick. Can carry 4 ricks between my truck and trailer, so have been scheduling multiple deliveries the past two weeks so I can get my average fuel cost down. When it isn't cold, customers don't seem to mind waiting two days or so for delivery. I sold 1 rick last year in July and August. Sold 21 over the same period this year. Plan on going up to $275 by the end of the month so I am not driving to Nashville everyday. Logged two sales already this month.
Plan on reselling firewood this year if I can find dry decent wood. $70 a rick is normal within a few miles of my location. Problem is a lot of that $60-70 firewood is garbage and unseasoned.
This is a four rick delivery to a single customer a few days ago. My largest single payday ever! Took many hours of cutting, hauling, splitting and stacking to produce this firewood. And it took 19 months to get paid for all that effort.
I found "seasoned" cordwood for $175 u-pick it up, to $250/$275/cord delivered. Still not worth selling. Not sure what price id sell for, when things get tough this winter. I guess if 1 cord keeps my place warm for a month, it would last longer for an airtight house, say 6 weeks, and a tank of oil also lasts them 6 weeks at $840/200G, I could sell that cord for half the cost of oil and they still save money. Not that I'd do that to someone. But if they save money and I make money, something like that might happen. I mean, $200/half cord delivered might motivate me. I have 3 cord of ash css and covered a little over a year old, that wouldn't hurt my 4yr plan too badly.
