Selling by the piece count.

So my daughter and son-in-law live in northern Florida, and usually buy firewood for their outdoor fire pit. My son-in-law told me that this year most all sellers are selling by piece. count. Example one hundred pieces or 200 pieces. They are selling 200 pieces for $165. He understands costs have gone up this year, but has never experienced people selling this way. That is borderline convenience store prices if you ask me.

I just sold a cord of wood locally in Arkansas for $180. May be I need to rethink my selling strategy.

 

New strategy:
1. Move to Florida.
2. Start splitting everything to kindling size.
3. Build another wood shed to stack your piles of cash!

 

I like the way you think !

 

That's about the price that one dude was getting in...where was it...Nashville maybe? I don't recall the user name right now...

 

Selling wood by the piece is a deceptive practice. Wood should be sold by the cord or fraction of. Sellers are always playing games to get more money in their pocket and short change the consumer.

 

I thought that was the purpose of capitalism?

 

I agree.

 

When you say "Cord". Are you referring to 128 cu feet, ie: 4x4x8 ??

 

I've seen wood recently sold by the gallon, go figure.
The deal was for a "totally stuffed 55 gallon drum". You could even keep the drum with a deposit and call for a exchange for another stuffed one.

 

Yes, actually a little more in my case as I would rather give a little extra than short the buyer

 

Is there any other definition?


In NH it is only legal to sell firewood in cord or fractions of a cord. No ricks, Steve’s, ranks or hanks, bush cord or face cords. Not that people don’t do it tho.

 

I'm south of you (less wood burners) and I've sold for several years for $240/cord and went up to $280/cord this year and have not had any complaints or people who 'walked' upon learning the price. It's been hard to keep up. And several people in my small town sell wood. I think you should raise your price. I complain about no money in it at $280! Actually am thinking about going higher.

Anyone selling by the 'stick' must be selling small quantities, 1/4 cord or less, and to city slickers. FWIW, about 95% of my sales are 1/2 cord or 1 cord.

 

I'm not a seller, just a firewood hack. I do occasionally get on Craigslist and look at firewood prices. I burn 1-2 cords per year and currently have a stockpile of about 11 cords. I was curious about possibly selling some.

Here's a local Craigslist ad: (its not mine)
Fall special mixed Seasoned firewood.stored in a dry barn - $50 (central ky)






condition: excellent
make / manufacturer: Firewood seasoned firewood
model name / number: Oak firewood Hickory walnut
size / dimensions: 4x3 4x4 4x8 4x4x8

Now is a good time to stock up on firewood before we have a gas shortage. enjoy a nice cozy fire. Camping. Or in the firepit 4x8 rick face cord 150 each this is nice clean firewood stored in a dry barn out of the weather this wood came from the Daniel Boone forest this wood is mixed red oak white oak hickory maple walnut black cherry locust beech poplar it is all cut 12 to 16 inches great for. Camping firepits bonfires buck stoves inserts fire places and is ready to burn prices are.

Heaping Wheelbarrow load 45.00 4x3 50.00 buy 9 or more 4x3 rolls. For 45.00 each includes delivery and stacking. now is a good time to stock up on your firewood and save money and be prepared for the winter of bonfires firepits or what ever need you have for it. Call. OR txt show contact info or show contact info if you are going to want to get some firewood now is a great time to get it save money and get great burning clean wood that has been stored indoors since it was cut and split seasoned firewood red oak white oak Hickory ash maple walnut cherry beech poplar locust nice clean Bug free firewood dry and ready to burn . We have been serving Lexington and the surrounding counties for 26 + years and still counting. I have a moisture meter to show our wood is well below the 20 percent level to burn good and keep creosote levels to a minimum We accept cash paypal.

 

If you can get 45 bucks a wheelbarrow load, giddy up!

 

Over the Summer i sold 200 splits for $99 It was roughly a liberal 1/4 cord which i stated in my CL posting. I usually gave them 110 pieces. Think i had 4-5 sales. It was older inventory that was too weathered.
$180 per cord would be cheap around here. Selling by the piece a good strategy IMO.

You could always morve to Florida and do the same. Does palm process easily? Good burning?

 

So roughly a face cord? Doing a quick count myself that's what I was coming up with.

I have no intentions of relocating especially just to sell fire wood, but if I had the ability to haul a tractor trailer load down there I might very well do it.

 

My split count is 750-800 pcs per cord so i go by that. 16" long splits. I mostly sell by half cord and its the max i can deliver per trip.

 

I think all the convenience store selling should help us. We got a better deal even at $500 a cord!

 

Same here, also has to be "ranked and well stowed" when calculating the volume, not loose or piled. Here are some excerpts:

(b) Cord. The cord is the standard measure for bulk firewood, and shall contain 128 cubic feet of wood, ranked and well stowed.
(f) Other Terms. The use of the terms “face cord”, “rack”, “rick”, “tier”, “pile” or “truck-load”, or any other term describing a unit of measure different than those specified in this article shall be prohibited.
(g) Ranked and Well-Stowed. Wood placed in a row or rows, with individual pieces touching and parallel to each other and stacked in a compact manner minimizing spaces between pieces.

Not that it stops people from selling "face cords", pickup truck loads and other made up sizes.
Brad