Wood you sell your Wood @350 a cord?

[ColdNH]

Like the title says, seasoned cord wood is approaching 325$ on average in New Hampshire. Kinda silly since oil is under 2$ a gallon. Regardless

I am fortunate to be ahead of the game thanks to past scrounges, cutting off my own property and willingness to burn pine in shoulder season.

I contemplated and said to myself, if someone is willing to pay 350 a cord, I will deliver it in a 20 mile radius of my house. I can afford to sell 1-2 cords of my own stash and still have plenty for this winter and next.

I already have 3 people interested.... On one hand I feel like im taking advantage of people, on the other hand I have a lot of hardwork into scrounging and hand splitting this wood.

So I am just wondering, would you guys be selling some of your stash at these ludicrous prices?

 

[jb6l6gc]

I definitely would as I get 1 &2/3 of a cord for $320. I could make money and keep some for myself at that price lmao!

 

[Z33]

If it were me I would put back this year as well as two additional years and sell the rest off if you could get that for it. Maybe buy green wood this summer for less money to replace it.

 

[Frank625]

I would in a heart beat. I have four year seasoned ok I'll sell for $325 / cord delivered.

 

[Little Digger]

If someone wants my firewood, I'll take $1,000 per cord. The chances of anyone purchasing any of mine would be slim to none. Any takers and I'd have to raise the price to $2,000 a cord. They'd also have to pick it up themselves!

 

[Junebug90]

Here in Michigan a cord pushes 200 for seasoned oak. Ash is about 165. I asked around and got 6 cords of ash at 135 a cord.

 

[claydogg84]

They could have all 20 cord at that price.

 

[STIHLY DAN]

Nope. It would take $500 plus they pick up if they want my 5 yr oak. I worked to hard to get it and wood is becoming harder to come by. Many people can't get any around here.

 

[Phoenix Hatchling]

The wood I purchased for 200 I would sell at 350. The wood I split myself by hand, I would not.

 

[Paulywalnut]

As hard as I work to get a cord scrounged, split, and stacked... No way. I have 9 cords all split exactly the way I like it. I like the stacks more than money.

 

[ADK_XJ]

As hard as I work to get a cord scrounged, split, and stacked... No way. I have 9 cords all split exactly the way I like it. I like the stacks more than money.

Yep, this is right on the money - my cordwood stacks are as much a past-time and source of pride as a money savings or heating source.

Now, if I did know $350 was a sure thing price I'd probably have taken a week off from work last spring and cut a bunch of the doomed ash on our back 9 and sold 4 or 5 cord to finance a splitter...wait a second, I might need to do that.

 

[byQ]

Now, if I did know $350 was a sure thing price I'd probably have taken a week off from work last spring and cut a bunch of the doomed ash on our back 9 and sold 4 or 5 cord to finance a splitter...wait a second, I might need to do that.

I did this very thing last year. I sold 5 cords of cottonwood and went to Lowe's and bought a DHT 22-ton splitter for $800 + tax. I didn't have to work to hard for this cottonwood - it was laying down (not punky), dry, and cut and split quickly. So, a few days worth of work = a new splitter.

 

[bag of hammers]

I would put it in 1 cu ft bags and sell it for @ $1280 / cord, just like the stuff on pallets outside the grocery stores here ($9.99 / bag). But seriously I got a lot of time and sweat into the stacks. It's a labour of love, I'm sure there will be more, but still I'm on the fence. Perhaps for someone who's trying but struggling to get some momentum and just needs a kick start this winter, nice to help them out if I can, but not so much for someone who just blew it off until November and wants to get bailed out. Maybe it shouldn't be personal but it kinda is....

 

[Sconnie Burner]

I did this very thing last year. I sold 5 cords of cottonwood and went to Lowe's and bought a DHT 22-ton splitter for $800 + tax. I didn't have to work to hard for this cottonwood - it was laying down (not punky), dry, and cut and split quickly. So, a few days worth of work = a new splitter.

Thats what I did with some cottonwood and boxelder, sold it for $85 a 6.5 ft tossed truck load. But it was the DHT 27-ton from Menards when they were on clearance right after Christmas for $899. Think I'm going to do the same thing to upgrade to a husky 562xp. I'm 3/4s of the way there!

 

[billb3]

Maybe. * and it's FOB my back yard
and that's only if HHO stays under two bucks
MY luck Iran and Saudi Arabia would go at it big time and home heating oil would jump to $6 / gal


"Multiple votes are allowed."
this is a presidential election ?

 

[Poindexter]

Local to me #2 oil is at $2.35 a gallon, so a 20MBTU cord is worth $338 if I do all the week for free.

No way am I delivering a cord of seasoned cordwood for 12 bucks.

 

[tiswood]

i have 9.5 cord seasons 4 cord green, 2 ton of coal also 1ton of Ecobricks I am trying this year. So I could get rid of a couple cord but I would have to really need the money. Then it's pick up only. I already stacked it 1x and that's enough.

 

[madtrapper]

I sell ash 1 year seasoned for 150 a cord picked up only in central mi if I could get 300 I would love it

 

[mwhitnee]

My wood right now- no way. I busted my butt to get my 5-6 cords split and stacked, and I need it. The only way I would sell wood is if I stacked all I could and had leftover wood I had no room for.

Suppose I could just buy heating oil with the proceeds, but now that I've had a wood stove, the heat just feels different and I enjoy it more. Besides my house has a two zone system and I would have to use both zones all the time to heat the house.

Say you buy a green cord for $200 and have it delivered. Then you stack it and cover it, make sure it stays covered, takes up some of your own wood space, then throw it in a truck and deliver it for a $150 "profit"? No friggin' way. I don't even think I would sell it scrounging, as there is additional work involved with that...

 

[Little Digger]

Perhaps for someone who's trying but struggling to get some momentum and just needs a kick start this winter, nice to help them out if I can, but not so much for someone who just blew it off until November and wants to get bailed out. Maybe it shouldn't be personal but it kinda is....

I too would give my firewood away to someone in need, and by that I'm talking that they can't afford to purchase any, have no way of procuring any, and can't afford heating oil or propane. Certainly not those who wait until heating season starts to start bringing in wood, be it green logs or pre bucked and split recently while it was still green. I have no sympathy for that kind of folk.

 

[Applesister]

Ah...No I wouldnt, I dont own any processing equipment. The trees get cut and dragged out of the woods and split and stacked the old fashioned way (one piece at a time.)
Too much sweat equity. Although I sold facecords of fully seasoned wood to a neighbor who had bad credit with the fuel oil company. At 130.00 a facecord and basically on the premise that I wasnt a wood dealer, just that I had extra. He complained about it anyway and I explained I was parting with wood set aside for my own personal burning and at some point I would be short wood. Also Im moving wood that was stacked in racks and seasoned for 3 yrs then reloading in my truck by hand, off loading it by hand in minus -15° temps in February.
He bitched about the size of the splits, the length of the splits, and how he couldnt stack them...
No thanks on selling firewood!!

 

[Applesister]

Its one thing if you have a processor, a dump truck and a front end loader.
And can let wood sit in piles everywhere without having to stack it.

 

[Rossco]

Depends.

Dry, Snag cut Larch around here is $350+ a pick up load depending on the time of year. That's ready for the stove straight off the saw.

 

[Longstreet]

Local to me #2 oil is at $2.35 a gallon, so a 20MBTU cord is worth $338 if I do all the week for free.

No way am I delivering a cord of seasoned cordwood for 12 bucks.

Wait, you mean all Alaskans don't have a private oil well in their back yards?????

 

[BillLion]

Nah, I wouldn't sell my wood. I buy most if it, and what I do process myself isn't worth selling when all the time/effort is considered.

BTW: I def wouldn't buy wood at $350 per cord either. $250-$275 is an avg here. I might push up to $300 if the prices moved that way and oil justified it. Hard to see me paying more than that though.