Does anyone sell bulk firewood by the piece?

[Michael M]

Wondering if anyone sells firewood by the piece. I have a few customers that are smart and buy their wood in the spring. I sell in all different quantities from 1/8cord, 1/6 cord,1/3, 1/2and full cords. For unseasoned wood that was just cut this past winter I was thinking of leaving it in a pile and just selling that to the early customers that pick up their own. I get an average of 675 pieces in a full cord. I could sell the bulk stuff for 30 cents a piece which works out to $202.50 per cord which is what I get anyway for picked up wood. I'm thinking it would work well for anyone that picks up a trunk load or dump truck load or anything in between. Below are some pics of some of the stacked stuff that I well sell this fall and a pic of loose redoak just thrown on pallets.

 

[KMB]

I can't answer your question, but very nice and neat wood stacks! I'd rep ya, but gotta spread the rep around first.

Kevin

 

[highpointtree]

I sell bulk firewood by the truck load or by the cord

 

[REJ2]

Its got to be worth more than 30 cents to misalign one of those neat stacks!!! No way could you measure each piece, how do you do it? Dang. REJ2

 

[Wife'nHubby]

I'd like to know where you get wood that is that straight, no knarly stuff and when split all the splits are uniform!

Looks great!

Shari

 

[boda65]

That is an awesome stacking job! My hat's off to ya. Do you measure length with a micrometer? Nice uniform sizes, too.

 

[TFPace]

Michael,

Very nice work. How much wood are you averaging/pallet? How long does it take to stack each pallet. To be able to shrink wrap the skid and load on a customers vehicle would be great too. Anything we can do lower the manpower required process a cord is $$$ back in our corner.

Moving the skid loaded with wood has got to be a challenge or is this just the drying area?

 

[Michael M]

To answer a couple questions. Yes I do measure everything to length. I have a mingo marker but really use a 25' tape and my kids sidewalk chalk more. I get poles from jobs I work on and am fortunate to be able to take the nicest and straightest for my self and I sell the other poles. I really like red oak and thats mostly what I try to get. It cuts nice, splits great, and is a great burner. I sell to all sorts of people but mostly to occasional burners that may only buy a 1/3 of a cord. They seem to like everything being the same length and nice wood.

I am very anal about my stacks,probably to much but It also makes for good advertising when people come to get their wood or when I take pictures for ads. It's easy to tell it's not a bunch of twisted up narly stuff.

I have a yard near my house (Where the wood is) it's about 150 yards from the house with a good road into it. I very seldom if ever spend an entire day on firewood. Mostly an hour here or 2 hours there. I can't spend an entire day. I get bored and my back will start hurting. But I can really give her hell for those couple hours. I work hard and fast. Many times when I'm working up red oak I don't even fire up the splitter. I will just split by hand. I can be wicked fast for those two hours But then I will move onto another project.

I also never work firewood in the mud. Snow all the time and doesnt matter how cold it is but I hate dirty wood. I found that I get way more done in good conditions and better all around results and less aggrevation.

The key is to having a place on my own property. If I had to drive to get wood it wouldn't be much fun.

 

[DUGs-sawshop]

Sounds like you have some firewood customers who will take small quantities. I think by the piece sounds like a great idea , then your customers can get any quantity without worring if they got there 1/3 cord or whatever. Good luck with it. doug