Re: Must be different up your way !
Originally posted by Whiteindustries
Guess you have it different up your way!
Normal people will pay $1500 (CAN) for a big log truck with pup which contains about 13 full cord. I obviosly don't pay that kind of money myself. With all the firewood I sell I'd be poor. I try and get special deals where I cut trees down and get to keep them. I gotta do all the work and provide all the machinery though. Deffinatly no getting it delivered on a truck.
For example a guy I know built a house in the middle of a hardwood bush. I clear cut about 2 acres and got a lot of good wood. I get wood from a place where they're putting in a new golf course........same deal. I remove them. I keep them. Right now I'm logging for a company and I get truck loads of wood from them.
Arborist are paying up to $250 a load down here where there is over population to get rid of wood!Allot of old growth going threw the grinder to become mulch.
You find a cheap trucker to make the trip and I am sure you can find the wood!What are you paying???
A cheap trucker would be nice. The best deal I can get is a huge tractor trailer for $85 (CAN) per hour. That works alright for getting scrap log ends from a sawmill 30 miles away, but not for going to the United States.
I'm not going to that place anymore by the way. The scrap logs get pushed together with an industrial loader. And when they load it with that same loader there's a few tonnes of dirt and rocks in every tractor trailer full.
An acre of commercial land down here is $250,00 plus, what does land cost up where you are?
Lets see. Top quality hard wood bush can run from $2000-$3000 (CAN). Plowable farm land $800/acre. Wilderness, swamps and non loggable forsets such as hawthorn widlerness and pasture fields that have gotten over growm with small trees can go very cheap. A guy bought 220 acres of hunting land for $65000.
An acre of commercial space in Owen Sound (and that's a town of 20000 population) can run from $50 000 to $200 000. Small building lots $30 000 to $150 000 (downtown and waterfront) $15 000 to $40 000 (outskirts of town, near a village or rural). Basiacally you can get a house in town with almost no land, or you can get the same house on a 100 acre farm with some hardwood bush 10-20 miles from town for about the same price.
I don't know what normal people pay for property tax. But I'm betting it's far less than what you guys are paying. A few thousand per year should easily cover most middle class homes for property tax.
A truck of any size up to 1 ton costs maybe $600 a year to insure. That's liability, no colision insurance, and you have a clean driving record. Trucks over a ton have to be insured commercially and then they have to be saftied every 2 years, so that could get costly. Obviosly nobody in thier right mind is going to insure a 1 ton or smaller as commercial if they don't have to, even if they deliver firewood with it or whatever.
DISCLAIMER: I'm guessing at the exact numbers. I'm not a real estate agent or an isurance broker, so some of the numbers may off because they are estimated based on my own experince and what I pay and what people I know in my area have told me they pay. :angel:
