Pricing per cord?

[kyguylal]

Just curious what you guys are seeing for prices of cords in your region?

Here in southern NH, a cord of green hardwood is right at $280-300.

Cords of dry pine can be had for $75-100.

I'm seeing how everyone loves oak and maples, but at $300/cord, I'm finding it hard to justify it.

 

[peakbagger]

Look up Conway Daily Sun and look in their classifieds, there usually are several sellers.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

A cord delivered around here is roughly $180-200. Mixed hardwood, which would typically be oak, maple, ash, and hickory. A lot of guys around here sell by the truckload -- about 2/3 of a cord. I usually pay $110-135. I can get all oak for the same price.

 

[weatherguy]

NH is always expensive, not sure why, we're $100 cheaper in Mass and I thought you guys had more woods. What your seeing is typical for your area.

 

[KJamesJR]

I just got $250 a cord for green in central NH but dang... bout to start a thread on it.

 

[Grizzerbear]

150 to 200 full cord for oak hickory here in missouri

 

[billb3]

Green red oak, just cut and split, $190. Lowest I've seen for a while.
"seasoned" mixed hardwoods has been around $250
I've seen well seasoned oak for $350 but they never have much and it isn't the guys with processors and mountains of firewood

NH prices: Supply and demand ? Sawlog prices ? It's certainly not pulpwood prices.

 

[74ford3000]

I usually pay about $200 a cord for green mixed hardwood here in Southern Maine. Looks to be the same price this year.

 

[kyguylal]

Nh is supposed to be one of the two most forested states in the country. One would think it's cheaper here. The prices might be due to the high demand? Lots of people burn here.

I was able to find a cord of oak which has been down for a year and split since September for under $300. I stacked it in a single row. With any luck, it'll be ready come the winter. I have a few cords of dry pine stacked. The stuff is super dry, but it burns quickly.

 

[peakbagger]

NH also has consistently had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country (except Coos and parts of rural Grafton counties). Folks can make more money doing other things that require less capital investment than firewood. Most of the larger logging companies sell chipped product to what is left of the biomass power industry or sell low grade logs to the chipping plant in Shelburne which supplies the ND papers pulp and paper mill in Rumford. The smaller firms usually process low grade logs themselves to get the higher profit out of selling CSD wood. There is a lot of recreational development and tourists in the state so if someone is going to go to the trouble of processing firewood, they might as well bundle it and sell it to campground or local store. Even though Coos and Grafton are less prosperous, it costs too much to drive to the south to sell firewood.

Most of the folks I have known that gets a hold of truck loads know someone or is related to someone in the business and its done as favor and usually under the table. I have run into several folks on disability and unemployment that sell wood "under the radar" as if they get caught they can lose their checks.

Its highly likely that I am going to have beech logs sitting in the woods rotting at my wood lot from thinning unless I can find someone who wants them. I will cut and split what I need to cover my own use but unless someone has a portable processor its probably not worth converting to firewood for sale. When I get serious about thinning I will probably research further.

 

[Kevin Weis]

In these parts (Central MD) cord of Oak about $225-$250. Mixed hardwood about $175 or so. The mixed hardwoods tough would also include Silver Maple and Red Maple, the least desirable hardwoods in my book.

 

[Dug8498]

I’m also in southern nh and have a supplier I really like out of Derry nh that has a 2 cord min and sells good clean solid cords for $230 a cord. I specify oak and hickory cut to 18” and that’s what I get. Wood is not advertised as seasoned but is definitely drier than some “seasoned”wood I’ve gotten in the past. The first time I bought from him I got a 2 cord load of his “‘mixed hardwood” and it wound up working out really well as it contained a lot of stuff that seasoned a heck of a lot quicker than oak and hickory would.


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[WiscWoody]

By the logging truckload red oak up here is $80 a cord delivered but you have to pay for the 12 cords all at once and you cut/split/stack and dry it so you need to plan ahead. It looks like this. For already processed and dried oak here it’s in the $210-$230 range per cord like most other areas I’d guess.

 

[StihlKicking]

$100-$150 for green oak. Split, delivered, stacked.

 

[WiscWoody]

$100-$150 for green oak. Split, delivered, stacked.

Per cord? Not bad.

 

[StihlKicking]

Per cord? Not bad.

Yep, firewood is not in demand down here compared to other places. People who sell it pretty much have to take what they can get. Also there are to many sources of free firewood here. Only people who are unable or unwilling to cut their own wood buy it.

 

[Dug8498]

Yep, firewood is not in demand down here compared to other places. People who sell it pretty much have to take what they can get. Also there are to many sources of free firewood here. Only people who are unable or unwilling to cut their own wood buy it.

If firewood was that cheap I would never even consider taking the time to cut my own wood


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[StihlKicking]

If firewood was that cheap I would never even consider taking the time to cut my own wood


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I think for most people it’s more of a pride thing than a financial one.