Sold my first cord of wood

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RED FRONTIER

RED FRONTIER

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My neighbor has been asking for years to buy wood from me. I have given him a Ranger load a year.
He lets us use his snow blower no questions asked so its a win win. This year we have been talking about him upgrading to a insert from a open fire place. He still wants to, but pushed it off another year.
He knows how I hord wood so its dryand ask me to sell him a cord.. I'll give ya $300.00. I almost fell over. I'm stll having a hard time with this. This years wood is all Sugar maple stacked for 2 years. I will have to break into next years Irene oak. I really wanted to try 3 year oak for a whole winter as i have 4 cords of it. I feel its a very fair deal. Gives me a good excuse to go cut some more. :)
 
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If that Oak isn't split too big and has been stacked for a couple years I would think it would burn pretty well....
Good on ya for helpin' a brother out, though you'd no doubt feel better about it if it was heating his home in an insert, instead of heating the inside of a fireplace chimney. ;hm
 
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It would be tough for me. Worth more in sweat and time than $300, but I would probably do the same.
 
Getting something other than money in return is nice, snowblower usage and good neighbor karma, especially since you like to process firewood as it is. I sold a neighbor an F150 load once and had some serious seller's remorse, I missed the splits much more than I missed the money when it was gone.

2 year CSS oak will be fine in his open fireplace.
 
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We might be moving so it will be less to move at that point. Just a local move. Any wood I cut now I will process and stack at my mothers house then move when the time comes.
 
I would sell half my wood for 300 a cord
 
$300 for true seasoned wood seems fair.
1 or 2 years at least of storage time, clogging up an are where you could be having fun putting more wood if you had room. :)
 
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Sounds as if you and the neighbor are good friends and it is good to help each other. Sounds like he made you a good offer and probably comes pretty close to the going rate in your area. I'd sell for $300 per cord and it would be dry wood too.
 
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gzecc said:
It would be tough for me. Worth more in sweat and time than $300, but I would probably do the same.
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I agree. As hard as I work scrounging and splitting, my cord is worth thousands. I would let a cord go to a good neighbor for sure though.
 
RED FRONTIER said:
My neighbor has been asking for years to buy wood from me. I have given him a Ranger load a year.
He lets us use his snow blower no questions asked so its a win win. This year we have been talking about him upgrading to a insert from a open fire place. He still wants to, but pushed it off another year.
He knows how I hord wood so its dryand ask me to sell him a cord.. I'll give ya $300.00. I almost fell over. I'm stll having a hard time with this. This years wood is all Sugar maple stacked for 2 years. I will have to break into next years Irene oak. I really wanted to try 3 year oak for a whole winter as i have 4 cords of it. I feel its a very fair deal. Gives me a good excuse to go cut some more. :)
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$300 is a lot but I don't think I could do it--to me it would be like selling my left arm.
 
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Never sen a cord come close to $300.00 here.
If he were truly a good neighbor, I'd be selling it for 1/2 that to him.
At $300.00 a cord, it would not be worth heating with wood. Sorry, but that is insane.
 
Hogwildz said:
Never sen a cord come close to $300.00 here.
If he were truly a good neighbor, I'd be selling it for 1/2 that to him.
At $300.00 a cord, it would not be worth heating with wood. Sorry, but that is insane.
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This wood was never ment to be sold. I can bearly keep up with what I need. Wood around here goes for $200 to $225 for day old oak still dripping wet. He know the time it takes me how hard it it is to get truely seasoned wood and made me an offer. I never said he was a friend I tolerate him and did this as a favor. I would of rather given it to my father inlaw but my wife was standing next to me durring this conversation and she saw $ signs. He has a aversion to work and more money than brains so I felt it was ok to do.
 
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RED FRONTIER said:
. I never said he was a friend I tolerate him and did this as a favor..... He has a aversion to work and more money than brains so I felt it was ok to do.
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More power to ya.
Never said you said he was a friend. But given he lets you use his snow blower " no questions asked", and you gave him a Ranger load of wood, (which is at best 1/3 a cord if loaded to the gills), and since you two discussed him upgrading to a new insert, while maybe not friends, its more than a wave hello to a neighbor.
Your win win situation appears a bit lop sided at this point.
It is your wood, and his money, so if you two have an agreement, then enjoy the money as he enjoys the wood.
Maybe he should charge you a rental fee for use of his snow blower?

You folks up there have pretty pricey wood.
No way in hell sugar maple would ever sell for any more than 1/2 that amount around here.
Yet another reason I love living where I do.
I can get a pole length log truck delivery of 7-9 cords for just over 2x the cost he is paying for 1 cord.
 
Hogwildz said:
More power to ya.
Never said you said he was a friend. But given he lets you use his snow blower " no questions asked", and you gave him a Ranger load of wood, (which is at best 1/3 a cord if loaded to the gills), and since you two discussed him upgrading to a new insert, while maybe not friends, its more than a wave hello to a neighbor.
Your win win situation appears a bit lop sided at this point.
It is your wood, and his money, so if you two have an agreement, then enjoy the money as he enjoys the wood.
Maybe he should charge you a rental fee for use of his snow blower?

You folks up there have pretty pricey wood.
No way in hell sugar maple would ever sell for any more than 1/2 that amount around here.
Yet another reason I love living where I do.
I can get a pole length log truck delivery of 7-9 cords for just over 2x the cost he is paying for 1 cord.
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You should move to Washington DC. I have seen two ads on Craigslist in the last week for free cut and split firewood. Its becasue there are hardly any woodstove burners around--its unreal.
 
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You should move to Washington DC. I have seen two ads on Craigslist in the last week for free cut and split firewood. Its becasue there are hardly any woodstove burners around--its unreal.
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Well we certainly don't have it that good here.
I know some members have tree guys dumping wood at their places just to save from dump fees etc.
No such luck here. I would say a large percentage of people here burn wood.
Much of the wood goes to pulp & pellet mills here.
I watched then clear treed from a new gas pipeline across our road, stopped as asked them what they were doing with the wood, and they said chipping it all and taking it to the mill.
I cringed at the thought. On the other hand the power company had everything cut down under the high voltage power lines, and it lays there rotting in hundreds and thousands of cords. Most of those land owner don't care and let it rot, or are too stingy to let anyone else have it. Or is it inaccessible to anyone.
One extreme to another, all I know is I can't get my hands on it, and it lays and rots.
 
Sounds like if anyone is near DC they need to burn!!
 
I say you did great selling it for $300, don't let. It bother you, enjoy what all of your hard work has brought you and keep cutting the wood. I would have done the same...just think, if you can sell a cord a year, you could buy a log splitter or snow blower and it pays for itself....
 
Thanks, I inherited my dads old splitter. This little deal paid for the new 2 stage pump and new hydro seals I put on this sping. It must be over 30 years old. I must have been around 8 Years old when he got it. It was pretty used then. That Honda 5hp still starts first pull. Just need to go get some more wood!
 
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Actually this is my goal now that I have my new splitter.... :)
I would love to sell a cord of wood or 3 face cords at $100 each...
While being 3 years on schedule....
That's what I'm hoping for...
 
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Ram 1500 with an axe... said:
Actually this is my goal now that I have my new splitter.... :)
I would love to sell a cord of wood or 3 face cords at $100 each...
While being 3 years on schedule....
That's what I'm hoping for...
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Did you post a pic of your splitter? I remember months ago I think I sent u the nearest tsc. Sorry if I missed it. If you have space to store wood for yourself and stuff to be sold and its truly seasoned stuff, you'll have a ton of customers! $ 200/cord is reasonable. Offer green wood at a discount to have customer store it for a year.
 
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Did you post a pic of your splitter? I remember months ago I think I sent u the nearest tsc. Sorry if I missed it. If you have space to store wood for yourself and stuff to be sold and its truly seasoned stuff, you'll have a ton of customers! $ 200/cord is reasonable. Offer green wood at a discount to have customer store it for a year.
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Thanks, I just put it all together, it took me about a 1/2 hour to do so, all it needs is gas and a log, I will try to take pictures tomorrow night when I let her rip ....
 
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