Firewood pricing as season progresses

You guys who have quite a bit of experience selling wood, is it normal for prices to increase as season progresses? Or the opposite? If you have a real cold period later in the season, it seems demand would go through the roof because people just do not prepare. Economics 101 says if supply for anything decreases (or demand increases), price goes up.

Do you ever hold wood for later because price might improve?

 

Sort of. More of what I’ve seen is guys run out of seasoned wood. I was one of the few at the end of winter/into spring that had wood.

 

From what I have seen here, there are just too many people with wood for sale, year around, to hold out for better/higher returns. I see it for sale, beside the road, in too many places, all of the time.

Now, if that was hay for sale, then I pity the small time cattleman who runs out of hay late in the winter in this area, especially this year, as it was too dry for much fall hay harvest. If you had not gotten it in the spring, early summer, then you were in trouble.

 

In south maybe; in north wood price is stable 225 275 cord.

 

Yep, here in the south wood is sold by the rick, at around $60 per rick (face cord more or less) x 3 to make a cord = maybe a $180 per cord. I suppose some people might be asking $75 per rick, but I doubt they can sell much of it at that price which would equal $225 per cord.

 

I usually sell out by mid October. Deliveries interfere with collecting wood for the next year, so I try to get it sold pretty early. I have wondered this same thing though, so I’m interested to hear what others experience is.

 

For me it's sell what I have & when I'm out it's gone. $ 250.00 cord delivered within 10 miles. Usually Oak & Ash & Elm mix.

 

Plenty of wood and wood sellers around here. Prices seem to stay the same. Relatively mild Winter here so my supply is still good.

 

I sell for $80 a rick in southern Oklahoma and always have a waiting list.

 

Sounds like the "price" is right for you Mr. Price.

 

Is that delivered/stacked or they pick up?

 

I sell out in the fall but my price remains the same for the selling season.

 

Just walked out of Lowe’s in Upstate New York.
Yawner, can you send me 8 cords for a better rate to southern Vermont?
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That is delivered and stacked.

 

Gramps called ricks aka runs. In the dead of winter that might last a week so we use the term less.