clinchscavalry
ArboristSite Operative
I have an oversupply of firewood and try to sell a little during the winter. It's almost 100% pecan from the several orchards I manage, and most of the wood is from limbs that break off with the occasional blow down or dead tree. Pecan wood can be a bear to split, and it can also be rough on the hands when it has twisted, knarly grain. I have been asking $200/cord picked up at my place and $250/cord delivered and stacked for the customer. This might be a little higher than the average price around here, which is around $65/pickup load (about 1/3 cord), but I figure pecan is worth a little more than misc. hardwood since it is primo cooking wood and also a great wood to heat with.
A friend asked me what I would charge for a cord of 7 ft. pieces that he intended to cut up and split himself. I really didn't know what to ask since that was a new question for me, but I finally told him $65/cord if he would come and get it. I load it on his 14 ft. trailer with the tractor, so my time is picking up the laid out limbs, measuring the length, cutting the pieces, stacking them up and then loading on his trailer. It's far less work than cutting up pieces to 16 in. lengths, loading, carrying them home, splitting and stacking, reloading on a trailer, delivering and restacking, but still, it does require a good bit of time on the tractor and some sawing, mainly of fairly big rounds.
What say y'all? Is $65 bucks fair to both of us ?
A friend asked me what I would charge for a cord of 7 ft. pieces that he intended to cut up and split himself. I really didn't know what to ask since that was a new question for me, but I finally told him $65/cord if he would come and get it. I load it on his 14 ft. trailer with the tractor, so my time is picking up the laid out limbs, measuring the length, cutting the pieces, stacking them up and then loading on his trailer. It's far less work than cutting up pieces to 16 in. lengths, loading, carrying them home, splitting and stacking, reloading on a trailer, delivering and restacking, but still, it does require a good bit of time on the tractor and some sawing, mainly of fairly big rounds.
What say y'all? Is $65 bucks fair to both of us ?