I have sold in the past. Truckload at a time to a friend's parents. I get asked for "campfire" wood sometimes. I usually offer to help them go and C&S some wood rather than give away what I have (I like folks to realize how much work (and sometimes fun) it is to procure firewood). Some take me up on the offer, some can't be bothered. I will trade firewood for labor. Prices are relatively low in my area due to all the "seasoned" firewood for sale on craigslist. People are used to getting unseasoned wood, so they don't want to pay a higher price. I could sell all I wanted to at probably $175/cord. Straight Log Truck loads are very common for folks here to buy. 5-6 cords advertised, but what I've seen is usually more around 4.5 cord when all said and done. Loads of truck length (16') hardwood logs are sold for around $600 delivered....but you still have to CSS it. It is usually the tops from a recent logging job, so green as all get out. People in my area seem to think that 6-8 months is plenty of seasoning time? Burning spring-cut wood the following fall. I have little interest in selling firewood. I have been known to be charitable for the right person and circumstance.
this x 2... those I give too ... usually elderly or those with challenges.. are the one that call and ask for more wood or help.. one sweet lady who pays with chocolate chip cookies (warm out of the oven mind you) is sending her son and grandson up this memorial day. so I can teach them ... as she put it their wood doesn't burn right and is to difficult to get going properly! That's what she told them she wanted for Mothers day gift...
Is this a new law LT? Every firewood dealer I see or have ever dealt with sell by the cord. One local dealer even advertises that his trucks are "certified" by the state as to how much "loose thrown" wood they hold. I see your point as to it the clarity of selling by weight as opposed to volume but I wonder if differences in moisture content might make up for the variances in stack density.
Maybe, first I heard about the law myself. I wondered too about the accountability of selling by weight always figuring I was getting shafted, so loads I could stick-scale like 4 foot pulpwood and 8 foot pulpwood, I started measuring and then comparing the weigh scale after it was sold. They were spot on, and by spot on I mean within 1/10th of a cord. After that, I realized weight was the only way to measure wood accurately, just too many variable stick-scaling. I still do it obviously because I can't run my trucks over a scale when going from my woodlot to someones house as most of the time there is no truck scale in the vicinity, but I was not getting shafted like I thought either.
I have given a lot of firewood away myself, but it is done kind of differently. Someone might buy 45 cords lets say and I end up giving them 48 in the end. This is chivalrous as they are getting more then they paid for, but also hurts other firewood dealers in some ways. Most firewood people throw in a little extra just to be sure the person has enough wood, but I knew of one woman who bought firewood off a coworker and was disappointed with the cordage. I know both of them well, and the woman was kind so people probably gave her more then the allotted order in the past, but the coworker was very frugal. I am sure it was a cord of wood as that is just the way the guy is, but I also know it was not one stick more then a cord. So giving people more does kind of hurt other firewood dealers because down the road a homeowner might be disappointed in what their money obtained.
