Guy like that could really become annoying real fast. Then you start questioning his job because you pay taxes!!!
You have to be ahead to sell farwood? I thought you drug out a down tree, buck it, let it lay there a week or two, split it, and then call it seasoned farwood, no?
At our previous home we were not asked about or for wood, but a couple requests over the years for WWW to fell a dead tree seeing the stacks and also seeing him processing wood.
Shoot, at least they asked. We had some cut and split quite a few years ago and my Uncle found some guys bailing it into the back of their truck. (Stealing firewood is common here). So he chases them down the road, gets their license plate number, and the dispatcher gets back to him... "Oh yeah they are your neighbors, but they don't have much money and it's not like you don't have plenty of wood". (This is a small community and we are fairly big land holders, but jeesh stealing is stealing... So a week goes by and my Uncle gets pulled over for speeding. By the time he got done talking to the Deputy he was backing away from my Uncle's truck and said, "well I see you are having a bad week", and left it at that. ... I get asked a lot about firewood, but I do not do rounds or split wood. I might do tree length, or I might even do some 8 foot firewood, but I see little reason to cut it up and sell it as cut, split, stacked and delivered. The chances of getting my money are rather slim.
I had a guy this winter that wanted 45 cord of wood tree length. It was right after Christmas, but before New Years Day and there was a stipulation. I had to give him an invoice before New Years Day, but if I did I would get the money up front. Well who could not pass that up? Give a guy a piece of paper and get $5400... So I did that, got the check and cashed it and was $5400 richer, as the price agreed upon was $120 a cord delivered, 7 miles away. Not bad as the paper mill pays $100 a cord and is 4o miles away... So I get cutting wood and the snow gets deep so production starts dropping off. My bulldozer is doing okay, but jeesh it is all I can do to cut enough wood for myself, let alone hump out 45 extra cords, and I know I only have a few weeks before mud season sets in and the wood is covered in mud and no good for firewood. Not to mention the guy gave me $5400 and there is no wood in his yard. I have character, but still, I can't blame a guy for wondering... So I decide I better rent a skidder. So I have a friend and he has 6 skidders and says he will rent me one for $15 a cord. That is cheap enough, but now I am only making $5 more than I would have if I had just sold the wood to the paper mill. But then I get kicked in the teeth again. I assumed since the wood was going a mere 7 miles away my truck driver would cut me a break...nope, the $5 a cord I figured I would save since the guy lived so close is gone. So now I am making the exact same money I would have made at the paper mill. ($15 for the skidder, $5 more then I expected for the trucking=$20, or $100 per cord for tree length firewood). But it gets worse. Because the skidder consumes so much more fuel than my bulldozer, I probably amd making more like -$5 then I would have made if I had just sold it to the paper mill. ($95 a cord for tree length firewood versus $100 per cord for tree length pulp). In the end you can say that I really did not lose that much money, but I sure the heck did not make much either. Now I don't chase firewood customers a lot. I cut almost 100% hardwood, but it goes straight into making paper. If I can cobble a load together by Friday Noon, THAT DAY I will get paid, in cash, by weight. It is hard to beat that.
Don't be I have to ask since Ive only been on here a few months so everyone's got their little ways. Helps to ask
Its that damm paper mill. For a cord of wood here hardwood sells for $300-400 a cord. Youd be making a killing here if you had customers but they like their wood split and stacked.
Only knock on my door was a tree service who saw my stacks and asked if I wanted more. He was looking to unload some oak from a job around the corner. I said sure and he has been giving me wood ever since then.
Well im stretching this but the 165-200 is for seasoned fir here but maple tend to be 250 and then you get to madrone or oak 350-400 for a cord isn't uncommon but its not a favorable price for how common it is. Just nobody seems to cut it down and give it for free. Hard to find even for sale. Sometimes its in the form of blocks or something else.
"Seasoned" hardwood goes for $300-350 a cord here. Not sure who the hell is paying these prices with the cost of fuel here. I was able to lock in propane at $1.65 a gallon for 2 years, heating oil is somewhere around $2 a gallon. Not worth the effort to buy wood.
We're in the $300-350 a cord area too for anything from oak on up btu wise. That's cut and split. Not delivered or stacked.
