What gives in the firewood business? When every redneck is doing it in this town and one or two undercut you and at the price they charge, is not worth your time? How do you make it worth your while?
Trevor
Trevor
When everyone is getting laid off, your time gets cheaper and cheaper. When the alternative is make peanuts selling wood or make nothing at all, it's an obvious choice.
I could easily see the market being flooded with the stuff, literally faster than it can be burnt, in other words enough firewood around to keep every operating wood burner fed for the next 2 seasons.
I have never seen so many guys out cutting as I have in the last few weeks.
It seems insane to me that anyone would C/S/D a cord of quality hardwood firewood for under $100.
I think we're looking at some regional differences of wood quantity - cord versus face cord.
No one up here (that I know of) sells in terms of face cords. Everything is bought and sold in cords or fractions of a cord defined as 128cf. Prices listed in the classifieds are still in the $200-$250 range for a full cord, c/s/d.
May be someplaces but not here. Full 4x4x8 cords of seasoned hardwood delivered anywhere in county $100, been in the paper since December. The guys at the weekly auctions are even cheaper, tough times and bills to pay, or hungry?
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