What do you charge for your firewood?

[MattB]

Nicely split, clean dry live oak, black oak or madrone goes for $400/cd

Mixed hardwood/softwood goes for $300/cd dry

green hard wood goes for $275/cd

green soft wood is $200/cd

Delivery is $1.50 mile.

 

[cantoo]

Hardwood here goes for $240 a full cord delivered about 15 miles 1 way. Amish sell it cheaper but delivery can be an issue. Lots of guys buy slabs from their mills, peanuts for a pickup load that is green as green. Most guys that burn cut their own wood from their own property. Lots of guys cutting tops from logging for firewood. Also lots of firewood from fence line clearing. Nobody wants to pay much for firewood around here.

 

[chucker]

225.00 for a cord of dry/green mix of red oak soft woods 50/50 mix all the way through...delivered free up to 20 miles one way/1.00 a loaded mile.

 

[zogger]

Most wood around here goes for this nebulous "load", so much for whatever size truck the guy has, so it is hard to state an average full real cord price, but near as I can determine, it seems to be floating around 150-200 cord, short range delivery. Plenty of guys selling, so no need for long range, say over 15 miles, delivery. Truck "loads" are 50-70 bucks, I will guess this is 1/4 to 1/3 cord. And this is such a hardwood rich area and so many guys with trucks and saws, well, it's been and will remain a buyer's market. Last winter polar vortex was unusual, it was a seller's market then.

 

[Deleted member 83629]

80 per rick or i take girlfriends or wives as payment.

 

[flotek]

400 a cord ... That's absurd

 

[svk]

400 a cord ... That's absurd

Ambiance has a value to some I guess.

 

[svk]

Around here softwood goes $120 ish a cord delivered. Hardwood $2-300+ delivered. Some of that isn't seasoned.

 

[MuskokaSplitter]

I don't sell any but if I did...it wouldn't be for less than 350-400 a cord. But everything in canada costs more...so should firewood

 

[066blaster]

$360 for oak, hard maple, beech, locust, hickory
$300 for mixed hardwood

20 for delivery.

I'm pretty sure I could get more. I live 30 miles north of milwaukee, and no one trusts the hacks from the city so they are willing to pay more too a guy from the country.

 

[SteveSS]

Average price around my neck is $160/cord mixed hardwood on Craigslist. I've never bought firewood so I can't attest to the accuracy of the cords. On the smaller back roads, it's also common to see folks with old pickup bed type trailers sitting out by the road with a tossed in load at bed rail height for $40-$50

 

[zogger]

I sold a whopper 3 bundles wholesale Christmas eve and Christmas day. IF I ever sell a full cord, that would be 512 smackers.

That's a long row to ho-ho-ho though! HAHAHAHA!

 

[newyorker]

it can be had for 50 a fc but most cl ads say 60-65

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

$275 a cord for birch and spruce, $175 for cottonwood. Delivered within 10 miles free, over that is $2/mile. Haul up to 5.5 cords per trip.
Pickup at the shop is $25 cheaper.
Tree length is $1400 for birch or spruce, $1000 for cottonwood. About 9 cords in a load.
5% discount for military and vets. (I did 12 years in the Air Force, now a disabled vet)

I stay very busy, I'm about 60 cords out right now. For a while this fall I was close to 200 cords out.

 

[flotek]

Might as well burn propane or fuel oil if you gotta pay over 300 a cord for wood . At that point it makes no sense unless your a snooty yuppy who burns neat little fires in a fireplace around the holidays. Around here 150 a cord is average

 

[MuskokaSplitter]

Even at 300 a cord for hardwood that would be 1200 -1500 for a season based on 4-5 cords. That is a lot cheaper than the propane bill which would be closer to 2500. Im sure different regions have different prices.....but firewood is still noticably cheaper than propane around here

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

Not even close, break even is about $600/cord for fuel oil and almost $800 for propane.

23.6 million btus in a cord of birch.

138,300 btus in a gal of fuel oil.
91, 200 btus in a gal of propane.

170 gals of fuel oil to a cord.
259 gals of propane to a cord.

At $3.50 a gal for fuel oil, that's $595 of oil to equal a cord.
At $3 a gal for propane that's $777 to propane to equal a cord.

Fuel oil would have to be under $1.60 and propane $1.15 for $300/cord wood to cost more.

Might as well burn propane or fuel oil if you gotta pay over 300 a cord for wood . At that point it makes no sense unless your a snooty yuppy who burns neat little fires in a fireplace around the holidays. Around here 150 a cord is average

 

[MuskokaSplitter]

Didnt have exact costs all i know is my nieghbers said they were between 2500-3000 for propane last year.....and switch to wood this year. Maybe their 5 cords will be way more than they need then. Just a small house.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

I was replying to the person I quoted.

 

[MuskokaSplitter]

Haha dorsnt mean my post made any sense lol.

Yout post makes me feel much better bout cutting wood