Selling a few cords?

I know I shouldn't be asking a bunch of hoarders about selling firewood, but I'd like to make some extra bucks for Christmas and vacation spending and want to sell a few cords. Do any of you do this and what's your success? I have red oak and white pine, freshly cut, and I was going to cut, split and stack 3-4 cords of each, separately. Try to sell them next summer, probably on craigslist with a few tear-off sheets posted at local stores and on the bulletin board at work.

 

I sold a couple cords of well seasoned ash a few years back for a premium price and have regretted ever since.

Too much work for too little return for me.

 

I will sell my hard worked for, perfectly cut to length, perfectly split, stacked and seasoned wood for.........well, I doubt you have that much money.
Sorry, Jon, I really have know idea. As you can see, I don't sell it I am way too attached to it. It is all I can do to get myself to burn it.
Somebody on here will know the going price though. Good luck. Chief

 

A hundred plus miles north of you... you can get 200 to 250 for oak now.. doesn't seem to go up seasoned.. pine up here might not be worth the effort 25 dollars a truck load

 

Agree about the pine when there is so much good hardwood up in your neck of the woods.

 

If you have a location that has decent traffic volume, you can sell the pine in the summer for campfire wood.. Small bundles that people can put in their trunk. Could do the honor system to put $5 in a can and see how you do.

I would think you'd do better selling the seasoned oak in the winter.. People who don't plan ahead still buy firewood and are often prepared to pay more.. Guy close to me loads a trailer with about 1/6 cord of wood and sells it for $80. He sells several loads a winter and people take it away in the trunks of their cars....

Using Craigslist, pictures help. Enough people have been screwed buying firewood that they're willing to pay a premium for known dry wood.. Advertise the wood as dry and be ready to test a fresh split at delivery..

Just a few thoughts..

 

i sold a cord of split unseasoned Doug Fir to my neighbor in March for $150, It was actually sitting in rounds for about 9 months in my backyard prior to splitting it.. he had his kid stacked it right away, It may be burnable by Oct. I had to get rid of it as i had nowhere to stack it and it was just starting to get punky sitting around in rounds so I split it and sold it . sliced off any punky areas i found with the splitter

 

Whenever my family and friends see my hoard, they always ask if Im selling. But Im with rdust and tfdchief - I put way too much work into it for what people are willing to pay.

Can you deliver? If not you my find it difficult to sell very much. Everyone I see that buys wood around here gets it delivered by dump truck or log load.

 

up here most won't burn fir tree in fireplace or Woodstoves it is sold as campfire wood generally gets 25 dollar a truck load..

yeah variety got lots of birch, maple elm oak ash popular iron wood etc etc... not a lot of hickory this far north though

 

Like others said, I don't think many people would want to pay what I'd have to charge per cord, I put too much into it to make it worth selling any. I'd rather be 10 years ahead

 

Here in the Twin Cities suburbs, oak is going anywhere from $100-$150 a face cord. Prices are nuts! Heck I'm selling all my over length wood (not worth the time cutting 2-4" off when I can make money on it) and all the pine I get mixed in with truck loads of hardwoods. I'm making $90 a tossed 6.5 ft truck load heaped up a little! I figure if I cover my expenses and then some selling the lesser woods I'm fine with that!! Now thats wood thats already been dropped and delimbed, all I have to do is run it through the splitter. I'm a wood flipper if you will.... take it all and sell the less desirable. Now if I had to process it from felling to stack, I'd think twice.

 

Good for you. Make a little cash. Wait 'til you get 67. You will change your mind.

 

Its not hand over fist money but it helps contribute to the familiy vacation fun, fund!

 

With oil prices low it drives the price of wood down.
Waiting till a cold spell helps sell it fast.
You need to be able to deliver.

In my area what I refer to as "yuppies" freak out on the first cold snap and a cord goes for 320+.

Vermont is like my area, I would target the urban sprawl areas, new developments or Richie rich areas.

I've sold on occasion to a friend or friends friend a face cord that somone else does the leg work on. Usually just for actual seasoned burnable hardwood for their novelty fireplace or Woodstove.

I say go for it. It's hard to make ends meet nowa days not to mention to earn extra money. I applaud your work ethic for wanting to do what it takes for the family.

 

Hey, when I was your age I worked all day and then nights and weekends to keep up and make sure my family had a few extras. Nothing wrong with that. Especially when you are young. It's good for you. I'm sure your family appreciates it.

 

You already knew that you old fart

 

But like you, I can still get er done.