Alright fellas, laid off from work and need to stay busy. Father just told me that he knows a lady locally that has a nursery. She gets wood and bark chip from a local landscaping company. She uses the bark chip for her nursery and some of the wood for burning. But I guess its getting out of hand for her. She said she only goes through 8 cords/year. She said there is approx. 30 cords on her land at this given moment and it just turned spring. So there will be more coming her way.
I talker to her on the phon today and scheduled to meet her in person and see the wood. We are in a large area of people and have met with some people through the years that could sell 300+ cords a year easy. So worrying about selling the wood is not the problem.
Obviously, I would be getting everything in writing with her to make sure both party's are covered. I have no where to store the wood. She offered to let me process, stack and store the wood there throughout the year to sell it. All she said she cares about is she wants me to process her 8 cords of wood and the rest can be mine for the year.
Some of this wood is so large she is not sure if I can even cut it up. Other options come into mind as I have a family friend who owns a band mill. I have never done that stuff nor know who to sell it to.
So the big question is, is it worth my time? I don't have to go out to the woods and get it myself, I don't have to pay for a logtruck or pay for the wood, period! Its already on flat, clear land with space to work. I don't even have to pay to store it there.
All thats required out of me is to buck it, split it, stack it, deliver it. I was hoping to get your guys' thoughts on this and if possible help me figure out what I should incorporate for overhead. I want to price the firewood for sale accurately and make as best a profit margin as possible.
One issue is until I can see it in person tomorrow, I wont know how much of what species there is. A cord of the lower grade species like, poplar, pine, etc. is not going to net me as much yield as the higher grade species would around here. I can ask $150/cd or so on avg. for the pine type species, $200-250/cd on the fir/birch/tam. Sometimes because of the area I could get elm, maple, etc. Which I might be able to ask $250-300/cd.
Planned on charging IRS drive compensation $.565/mile driven from her place to the location of delivery for delivery charge. Any stacking would be extra. Was thinking about $20 extra/cd.
What do you guys think so far? :confused2:
I talker to her on the phon today and scheduled to meet her in person and see the wood. We are in a large area of people and have met with some people through the years that could sell 300+ cords a year easy. So worrying about selling the wood is not the problem.
Obviously, I would be getting everything in writing with her to make sure both party's are covered. I have no where to store the wood. She offered to let me process, stack and store the wood there throughout the year to sell it. All she said she cares about is she wants me to process her 8 cords of wood and the rest can be mine for the year.
Some of this wood is so large she is not sure if I can even cut it up. Other options come into mind as I have a family friend who owns a band mill. I have never done that stuff nor know who to sell it to.
So the big question is, is it worth my time? I don't have to go out to the woods and get it myself, I don't have to pay for a logtruck or pay for the wood, period! Its already on flat, clear land with space to work. I don't even have to pay to store it there.
All thats required out of me is to buck it, split it, stack it, deliver it. I was hoping to get your guys' thoughts on this and if possible help me figure out what I should incorporate for overhead. I want to price the firewood for sale accurately and make as best a profit margin as possible.
One issue is until I can see it in person tomorrow, I wont know how much of what species there is. A cord of the lower grade species like, poplar, pine, etc. is not going to net me as much yield as the higher grade species would around here. I can ask $150/cd or so on avg. for the pine type species, $200-250/cd on the fir/birch/tam. Sometimes because of the area I could get elm, maple, etc. Which I might be able to ask $250-300/cd.
Planned on charging IRS drive compensation $.565/mile driven from her place to the location of delivery for delivery charge. Any stacking would be extra. Was thinking about $20 extra/cd.
What do you guys think so far? :confused2: