Short answer is yes depending on your location and the weather. I'm in Maine.
I sold a fair amount of wood on the side of my landscape business, did a few tree jobs here and there and would remove wood from their house. Everything I sold was either scrounged or I was paid to remove it.
Sold 6-8 cord a year, and they were generous cords for sure.
Anyways I would sell green oak in May or june for 180-200 bucks. I always seasoned oak at least a year split and sold that in the fall for 280. This was when oil was like 3 or 4 bucks a gallon a few years ago.
Come February it was real cold and I had a one extra cord I was sitting on.
Put it on Craigslist for 350 bucks figuring I would get haggled down to 300, it was gone that day for 350.
So yes, you can charge a premium, however it takes patience. And the equipment. Having access to a dump trailer would be huge .I hate just loading the trailer, unloading it again would suck.
You need to be efficient and set up your stacks so you can access it when its ready .
Will you make money? Sure. Is it worth it? Not really, but if you have the time and the wood what the hell. My wife never complained about me coming home with a couple hundred bucks in my pocket
I sold a fair amount of wood on the side of my landscape business, did a few tree jobs here and there and would remove wood from their house. Everything I sold was either scrounged or I was paid to remove it.
Sold 6-8 cord a year, and they were generous cords for sure.
Anyways I would sell green oak in May or june for 180-200 bucks. I always seasoned oak at least a year split and sold that in the fall for 280. This was when oil was like 3 or 4 bucks a gallon a few years ago.
Come February it was real cold and I had a one extra cord I was sitting on.
Put it on Craigslist for 350 bucks figuring I would get haggled down to 300, it was gone that day for 350.
So yes, you can charge a premium, however it takes patience. And the equipment. Having access to a dump trailer would be huge .I hate just loading the trailer, unloading it again would suck.
You need to be efficient and set up your stacks so you can access it when its ready .
Will you make money? Sure. Is it worth it? Not really, but if you have the time and the wood what the hell. My wife never complained about me coming home with a couple hundred bucks in my pocket
