Can you really trust people on facebook that sells firewood ?
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Some yes, some no. It's the same as purchasing firewood from any freelancer. Personally, I have not had the best luck. Generally "seasoned" wood, is not and a cord can be quite ambiguous. If you are shorted, good luck getting the balance made up. Now, I only buy from the pros.
No. Much better to buy from somebody you know or who came recommended. You may get lucky, but are you really going to be able to verify quantity and moisture while the delivery is happening, and then refuse delivery? Some people maybe, but probably not. I sell some firewood, I only have 2 customers (my in-laws and another guy), and they both told me that the other firewood sellers they’ve used have shorted them and/or sold them completely green wood—they’ve had zero luck with random people on marketplace. I bought wood once from marketplace, someone with good reviews even, and the wood was green. It was ash, but still not seasoned.
It’s easy to verify to customers that they are not getting shorted. Have them walk onto your property and see a stack of firewood that they can measure, check dryness etc. unfortunately, by stacking it pre sale you have increased your workload greatly and will need to charge more. You’re also inviting people onto your land and around equipment that they can get hurt on.
Option 2. Dump the pieces into containers of known volume and have them overflowing enough to make up for any shortfall, Less work, can be done easier with a conveyer.
The hard part of the whole situation is you have only so much land to process on. Odds are you aren’t going to have 100 cords lying around drying. You also can only charge so much for a cord. Call around your area for prices.
The only way to make money is to cut down on the amount of work you have to do for it. This means automation and more money invested at the beginning.
Run your numbers. How long does it take to process a cord? What does the wood cost? How many extra hours are invested processing it. How's much is your work worth? Now how much can you sell it for? Can you make more at your regular job? Most likely yes.
Automation and volume are the only ways to make money in firewood. And that carries substantial upfront costs.
Option 2. Dump the pieces into containers of known volume and have them overflowing enough to make up for any shortfall, Less work, can be done easier with a conveyer.
The hard part of the whole situation is you have only so much land to process on. Odds are you aren’t going to have 100 cords lying around drying. You also can only charge so much for a cord. Call around your area for prices.
The only way to make money is to cut down on the amount of work you have to do for it. This means automation and more money invested at the beginning.
Run your numbers. How long does it take to process a cord? What does the wood cost? How many extra hours are invested processing it. How's much is your work worth? Now how much can you sell it for? Can you make more at your regular job? Most likely yes.
Automation and volume are the only ways to make money in firewood. And that carries substantial upfront costs.
I would just revert (as a customer) to buy green wood and season it myself.
Then only the volume could be an issue.
Then only the volume could be an issue.
I know a guy who is space challenged. He sells loads the size of his dump truck(known volume). He backs it up to his processor and then fills it straight off his conveyer. All wood is green and high quality. Other than moving logs from the as delivered stack to his processor by tractor he doesn’t touch it.
There’s another operation by me that is much bigger. He has a pile in the sun bigger than my house. (I don’t have a large house, lol) He has a farm so plenty of land and equipment to move wood. He probably has 3-4 acres devoted to it.
About 45 minutes north of here there’s a boutique dealer that splits up logs by species, stacks and air dries them. He puts a lot of money into advertising and appears to run out every year. I doubt the wood is dry, but his clients can talk about their face cord of hop hornbeam. Look how he’s measuring the water content.
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There’s another operation by me that is much bigger. He has a pile in the sun bigger than my house. (I don’t have a large house, lol) He has a farm so plenty of land and equipment to move wood. He probably has 3-4 acres devoted to it.
About 45 minutes north of here there’s a boutique dealer that splits up logs by species, stacks and air dries them. He puts a lot of money into advertising and appears to run out every year. I doubt the wood is dry, but his clients can talk about their face cord of hop hornbeam. Look how he’s measuring the water content.
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