Where do you get your bags all the places I have checked with you have order by the pallet 2000 is the minimum laterI’ve been selling bagged wood for a while now and it’s ok money. I bag up the small chunk pieces I get from odd shaped leftovers. I get $10 for a 25 lb bag. All of my buyers are using it for smoking wood; the small pieces are great for the smaller pits. I can sit on the side of the road before a holiday weekend and sell 50-75 bags in 5-6 hours.
I also supply a feed store as well and they sell 75-100 a month. They sell the same bag for $15. The bags are cheap $0.23 each. Not getting rich but it gets rid of the chunk wood that can’t be stacked.
Where do you get your bags all the places I have checked with you have order by the pallet 2000 is the minimum later
Came up with the idea of offering the rack and first load of wood set-up and delivered for free, then the customer would pay me for the wood sold when I came to re-stock.
Where do you get your bags all the places I have checked with you have order by the pallet 2000 is the minimum later
here is the one we use I think it was around 850 plus ship
Johns Welding Shop LLC | Firewood Bundlers
We sell our bundles for 3.5 retail and 2.5 whosale. We normally do about 150-300 bundles per week but on bridge Day at the New River Gorge we do over 150 that day. I am considering getting out of it because I am not sure there is a future in it and there will be little on no equity in the business. We are moving more into fire starters which I think may have a future.
I use the same bags that are used for sand bags. They come in all sizes and are priced accordingly. There sold in quantities of 100 or more. Of course the more you get the cheaper they are. Look online for sand bags.
I have a set price and never change My customers know what I charge. In the firewood business if you don't have back up money for bad times. I had to shut down do to problems some of my customers came to the hospital and checked on me. When I got out the was waiting on my wood. Love my customers. I got an old lady customer ask me to pickup her a bottle of wine and some summer sausage no problem. I set up at the farmers market. I sell out by 3.00 o'clockAlso I am thinking of helping sponsor this forum we sell fire starters, log splitters and fire pits. Do any of you know who to contact for the best deals.
No I made all most a hundred thousand last year. I busted my butt thou. I will not do that good this year I all most ended up in hospital. LaterAre you saying you made 10 million last year selling firewood bundles? lol
Suppose you sold $100,000 worth of firewood bundles at $5 a bundle. That's 20,000 bundles.No I made all most a hundred thousand last year. I busted my butt thou. I will not do that good this year I all most ended up in hospital. Later
I have about 20 customers I sell a bag of 30 bundles to a week for $2.50 a bundle they sell them to the people who live around them for $5.00 supplement there income good for them and good for me. I made $38.00 just on that. I don't know with out counting the customers that buy one a day ever day of the year. If they come and pick them up. They want to help me and they do. They had the big bonfire at the park I took my bad wood over for them. I have people come from St Louis 100 miles away to buy the bags full of wrapped. If you do your customers right you will get more than you can handle. Give them different samples to try. Throw a little cherry or fruit wood in the bundle. I get calls from my customers they just want to talk and I always got time laterSuppose you sold $100,000 worth of firewood bundles at $5 a bundle. That's 20,000 bundles.
Suppose you averaged 7 logs in a bundle. That's 140,000 logs. If there are 600 logs in a full cord of split firewood, that's 234 cords or about 350 pickup truckloads, unbundled.
Thought I'd put things in proper perspective. That also explains why you are worn out. Even with three men helping you, several splitters, and an automatic bundler, that's a lot of work. And, I'm not sure I have that many customers available in my whole metropolitan area.
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Sounds marvelous, and I can see why you wore yourself out. How many people were helping you do all this? It seems impossible that one man could sell that many bundles alone with one splitter, a couple of saws, one truck, one bundler, etc.I have about 20 customers I sell a bag of 30 bundles to a week for $2.50 a bundle they sell them to the people who live around them for $5.00 supplement there income good for them and good for me. I made $38.00 just on that. I don't know with out counting the customers that buy one a day ever day of the year. If they come and pick them up. They want to help me and they do. They had the big bonfire at the park I took my bad wood over for them. I have people come from St Louis 100 miles away to buy the bags full of wrapped. If you do your customers right you will get more than you can handle. Give them different samples to try. Throw a little cherry or fruit wood in the bundle. I get calls from my customers they just want to talk and I always got time later.
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