Winter work- Firewood delivery?

[stevenf]

Idea just popped into my head. I know some of you sell firewood. Have any of you guys considered advertising for firewood delivery? Buy it from someone, Add your hourly rate for pickup and delivery.

[meets1]

Dude - whatever it takes to hustle a buck!!

I sell wood but if that option is there - go for it!

[ALC-GregH]

If you can find someplace that will sell the wood at a good price and you can turn around and drop it off at a customers house, then yes you can charge for it and maybe if you get a good deal, make a few bucks on the wood as well.

[grandview (2006)]

Sure sounds like "wholesale" to me.

[topsites]

How were you planning on packaging and delivering this wood?

I mean, say I'm a customer...
How much wood do I get for $100?
Do you stack it?
Is the wood split?
How long has it been cured?
What kind of wood is it?
Where do you get your wood?
Has it been sitting outside?
And so on...

If you can't answer those questions, it's probably going to make for a tough sale.
They could ask most anything, stumble and hesitate and...
In short, you have to pwn the wood lol

Here's a hint:
Most customers, more than likely, will want it stacked neatly.

[meets1]

For me selling - unless they want it stacked in some ungoddly place in the back 40 we charge extra. If they tell to unload on the driveway and they do it all the better, if it is accessible thru a garage door or to a backyard shed - we'll stack.

Yes, people will ask some questions. Some relate to wood, others talk a good talk but have no idea other that what a tree looks like and how that somehow made its way to a 2x4!

[beegreenlandcare]

Have sold wood for a few years now biggest problems being: keeping a good supply line.
Dealing w/ the peakes of the season when everything else is ina hurry to get finished b/f it snows.
People being impatient-our society wants everything NOWWWWWW!!!!
...and in the end you'll make about $2 /hr after you figure all the time spent obtaining, splitting, advertising, selling, delivering and posiibly stacking the wood.
...and then anyone who comes across a little bit of wood who is willing to sell it for $45/face cord for pure Oak/split!
I've got alot of more profitable ways to spend my time.
But, if your bored and its not snowing at all, it simply boils down to keeping yourself busy.:hammerhead:

[albhb3]

well if its going for 45 per tell me where it anywhere from 125-200+ here

[godzilla]

I sell a few cords a year. It's not about the money to me. I view it as protecting my investments (client list)

[93Chevy]

I used to work for a feed store where the owners also ran a farm. Anyway, their son started making wood forms on pallets about 4' high. He fills it with stacked, aged hardwood and sells them for $150. Equals roughly 1/3 cord. Sometimes I'll give him a hand delivering it, and it's breeze on the pallet.

[topsites]

I'm guessing most folks don't know what a cord is...
Because this is very confusing and deceiving to most and using these terms in offering sales or advertising for sale is PROHIBITED in most states.

A TRUE full cord of wood that has been cut and split and stacked correctly is 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet, or 128 cubic feet of wood.

A FACE cord can be less than HALF of a full cord of wood, depending on the method of how it is cut, split, and stacked.
In most areas it is ILLEGAL to sell firewood in bulk that claims to be a full cord of wood but isn't,
one can thus assume it is also ILLEGAL to sell a 'cord' or a face cord while failing to be specific.

A rick, rack or face cord is only a part of a cord of wood.
(A cord of wood is 128 cubic feet)

A rick or rack is the amount of firewood stacked by 4' by 8' by one row of the length of the stick.

A face cord is also one row of 4' by 8'.
But the difference is a face cord has lengths of sticks that will eventually add up to 4' when stacked in two, three, or four rows.
Example of a face cord:
Four rows of 12" sticks=4'
Three rows of 16"=4'
Two rows of 24"=4'
Therefore, purchasing a face cord of 12" lengths is actually only ¼ cord.
A face cord of 16" lengths=1/3 cord and a face cord of 24" lengths is a ½ cord.

Again...
This is very confusing and deceiving to most and using these terms in offering sales or advertising for sale is PROHIBITED in most states.

Ricks, Racks, Face Cords are not the same quanity or volume as a cord of measurement.
Source(s):
See the following web link for further information:

Jonesy's Woodyard, Inc
http://www.jwiwood.com/faq/faq_contents.html

Source:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060827150408AAvcuRQ

[meicher806]

Idea just popped into my head. I know some of you sell firewood. Have any of you guys considered advertising for firewood delivery? Buy it from someone, Add your hourly rate for pickup and delivery.

Ok, so i saw this post and had to throw my 2 cents in. there is no way that you could make any decent money buying wood at retail prices and delivering it for a profit!! end of discussion. How do i know this, I own P.F.D. or Premier Firewood Distribution. last year we sold @ retail price $300 per cord 128 cubic feet of wood stacked. We sold roughly 85 cords. We also sold wholesale which was 150 per cord delivered, we sold 4 semi loads @ 11 cords per semi.

So we sold a crap ton of firewood, we do dump and runs, no stacking, stacking is extra @ 40 per hour,(nobody wants to pay it) free local delivery, need to be doing 2 deliveries per hour per truck to make that work. any delivery over 5 miles round trip gets a delivery charge. (just the way it has to be). Most people order a face cord to 1/2 cord. we sell 90% of our wood when we should be doing fall clean ups.. last year we only had time to do 2 fall clean ups, dont break my heart because i hate them but this year we have more customers that want them.... so it will be even more crazy :)

People want dry wood, they want to know its dry, we harves wood year round, we buy wood year round, then we sit on it for 2 years.... Yes TWO years, why do we sit on if for 2 years?? BECAUSE ITS FEDERAL LAW, we get inspected by dept. of ag every year. the reason that they say is to stop the spread of insects.

Oh, did i mention all the costs? with my high end equiptment 3 guys can cut and split a cord every hour when they are fresh, by noon add another 15 min, be the end of the work day you are up to about a hour and a half, to a hour fourty five,

when i have to buy wood for supply i am paying about 150 per loggers cord. now after shrinkage, 10 loggers cord will be sold as 8 firewood cord.

in the picture below there is about 6 cords split

[punt66]

i stockpile wood from tree removal jobs and split it with my splitter on down times. I have a 10 -15 cord stockpile at all times. I sell off 5 a year and also burn. I get 225 a cord but was also paid to remove the trees so it makes for a good Christmas for the family. I sell to the same customers every year. I also always sel the previous years wood.

[jkilov]

I do this type of work during the winter. No heat, no dust and no bugs, sure beats summer firewood cutting. Get a few dozen cords done per season. Prices go from $150-$200 per cord for oak, dried, delivered and stacked. Other lower quality wood goes cheaper. It's no lucrative business but keeps me busy during the winter.