avalancher
Arboristsite Raconteur
I dont know how firewood sales are going in your area, but here all I got is regular customers right now, and even them are disappearing. Started to wonder why until I picked up our local paper this morning.
Some clown is selling seasoned oak firewood for $100 a cord delivered. Now how in the heck do you make a buck at that rate? Even if you short the customer an armload here and there, and not delivering actual seasoned wood, how in the hell do you make a buck at $100 per cord? I figure it runs me in the neighborhood of $35 just to produce it and deliver it, leaving a mere $65 for my labor of producing an entire cord. Considering the fact that it takes me approx six hours to cut, split, stack, and deliver a cord including travel time to the customer, hardly seems worth it for $10.00 an hour. Hopefully this clown will run out of wood soon.
I have mine priced at $170 per cord, and already feel that is cheap enough.
FIREWOOD - all oak, $100 cord delivered, you haul $60 cord. Cut your own, $20 cord. Phone 423-623-4053.
Source: The Newport Plain Talk
Location: Newport, TN
Rant over!
Some clown is selling seasoned oak firewood for $100 a cord delivered. Now how in the heck do you make a buck at that rate? Even if you short the customer an armload here and there, and not delivering actual seasoned wood, how in the hell do you make a buck at $100 per cord? I figure it runs me in the neighborhood of $35 just to produce it and deliver it, leaving a mere $65 for my labor of producing an entire cord. Considering the fact that it takes me approx six hours to cut, split, stack, and deliver a cord including travel time to the customer, hardly seems worth it for $10.00 an hour. Hopefully this clown will run out of wood soon.
I have mine priced at $170 per cord, and already feel that is cheap enough.
FIREWOOD - all oak, $100 cord delivered, you haul $60 cord. Cut your own, $20 cord. Phone 423-623-4053.
Source: The Newport Plain Talk
Location: Newport, TN
Rant over!