Firewood costs

[engineer2]

What are you guys paying for hardwood firewood? Prices locally are all over the place. A local place wanted $165 for a 16" face cord, customer loads and hauls. I told him his price seemed high and he went into a tirade. So I left.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Haven't purchased firewood in years. The bit I require I harvest myself. If this guy is over priced and a little bit smart he will eventually realize he is priced out of the market. Only problem is the lower priced supplier may notice and jag his pricing a tad higher. If the tirade guy is harvesting off his own property he probably doesn't care and will sell it eventually anyway and prep some more for beer money.

 

[Fordman7795]

$165 for a face cord? A face is about $40 here

 

[southalabama]

Seen some locally $50. Little farther south closer to gulf it runs $85-100.

It may be outrageous price to you. His firewood. He can name price. May be yuppies wearing chinos that will pay it. I wouldn't.

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

About half the price of a real saw for a cord delivered here. $300-350

 

[gungatim]

I've never bought firewood until this year, about 3 wks. ago. just too many ticks and time to go down into the woods, cut, limb, load, haul up, split, etc...

I paid $185 for a full cord of Oak/Cherry, plus $30 for delivery. $215 total and he had a powered dump trailer and put it right by my rack. all stacked up I got a little over a cord.

that was the pretty consistent pricing on CL, within maybe $5-$10 depending on delivery location...at that price, I am tempted to get another cord, but I have 21 acres of hard woods and lots of dead/down from the storms this spring I just can't bear to let rot...but for the money vs. time it's a tough call...

up North the guys that get welfare wood (free gov. firewood subsidy) often sell it cheaper...

 

[yeldogt]

I don't use my fireplaces much anymore -- a couple of years ago it was going for over $250 + stacking charges.

 

[WhiffySpark]

We charge 350 for 2 full cords

 

[Buckgnarly]

200 for green delivered here

 

[Showkey]

Rural areas vs suburban Chicago...........like most things, location makes all the difference.
Same thing with stone in my area.......the transportion cost way more than the actual rock.

I cut down 17 oaks.........gave the wood away but they had to do all the heavy lifting.

Some areas also restrict moving fire wood because of ash bore, oak wilt and pine beetle.

 

[mike93lx]

Last i looked, 1 year seasoned is about 300 delivered

 

[JRC3]

Seasoned hardwood is about $150, some include delivery.

Plenty of ash around here at $100.

 

[engineer2]

May be yuppies wearing chinos that will pay it.

Yup. And they will complain if wood chips fall off and dirty their $60,000 SUV.
Says he "imports it from Wisconsin." It's already split and dried when he get's it, so it's probably legal, thus "My wood is better than anyone else's".
It's probably wonderful for an indoor fireplace, but I just need wood for our outdoot fire pit. I just can't see spending $20 for an evening's worth of fire.

 

[pamike]

I sell by the 1/2 cord. $100/half cord of seasoned hardwood delivered within 12 miles.
-It is truly seasoned. Not from "seasoned logs"
-It is hardwood
-It is a true 1/2 cord.

Most of my customers are city/town dwellers that only want 1/2 cord and are burning for the fun of it.
I have a few customers that buy to heat, and they pickup themselves and save $40/cord on the price.
I sell out every year, so I don't really care what other sellers do, but I am always amazed at how many people get ripped of.f Guys with a fullsize pickup claiming they have a cord of wood in it....and its thrown in and no sideboards on the truck....but people will buy from him because he is $150/cord and I am $200/cord. In reality if you figured out what the seller really has on the truck he is probably closer to $250/cord...

 

[TTA89]

I'm having two cords green hardwood delivered next week for $235 a cord. This is in the White Mountains of NH. Wood is getting harder to find.... As usual, everything is more expensive in Northeast.

 

[JRC3]

It's probably wonderful for an indoor fireplace, but I just need wood for our outdoot fire pit. I just can't see spending $20 for an evening's worth of fire.

I can't see complaining about the price of quality heating hardwood when all you actually want is junk to burn outside. These are apples and oranges.

 

[engineer2]

I can't see complaining about the price of quality heating hardwood when all you actually want is junk to burn outside. These are apples and oranges.

I agree. I don't need high quality wood for outdoors as long as it's reasonably dry. Cut up pallets or pine tree wood would work OK too. I bought gardening stuff from this company before, but never firewood, so I had no idea what he sells is a premium product. He jsut seemed overpriced compared to others advertising in the area. I stopped there because it was convenient. If I look on CL there is a 6 mile radius around my town where no one is selling wood.

 

[Bretny]

Never bought wood in many years but im seeing 170-200 a green cord of hard wood here. Once its late oct or early nov i see prices jump by about $30-40.
Im 1hr south of albany NY.

 

[engineer2]

As luck would have it, a friend called today and directed me to a local estate sale. I got a 1/4 face cord, a Clarke 170 pc. drill bit set, partial spools of #6 and #8 THHN all for $30.

 

[6768rogues]

Face cord about 16"-18" around here is $65 to $75. I only burn free wood and I happen to have about 3 years worth in my woodshed right now.
Our house is well insulated and is in western NY and we can heat it with gas for about $100 per month. Not worth buying wood but I like to burn free stuff.

 

[JRC3]

Our house is well insulated and is in western NY and we can heat it with gas for about $100 per month. Not worth buying wood but I like to burn free stuff.

I'd love to have a stove and burn wood, but with cheap natural gas it's hard to justify the effort. It'd be different if I had electric or propane heat.

 

[Showkey]

I'd love to have a stove and burn wood, but with cheap natural gas it's hard to justify the effort. It'd be different if I had electric or propane heat.

Thing if you add in all the work and costs wood heat might actually be a loser in today pricing. Costs like the truck, gas, trailer, saw, splitter, stacking, loading unloading, handling, chimney cleaning, dirt and ash, added insurance cost and then the time.........

Especially when a NG furnace is 90-96% efficient.........and some wood burners are half that. Then add NG is real cheap these days...winner and you just turn the dial on the wall.

Back in the day had two catalyst "high efficiency" wood stoves collected free wood from the state first with a permit. Those days are gone......

 

[TractorJeff]

I heat with wood even with "cheap" natural gas available. Our gas heating would be $250/month. Downstairs there is no insulation to speak of. It'll all get redone with time and money. I get wood for free but local prices are $80 a face with some good deals once in a while. Splitter was built and paid for years ago.

 

[86turbodsl]

Face cords run 40 to 60 around here. Location location location.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Thing if you add in all the work and costs wood heat might actually be a loser in today pricing. Costs like the truck, gas, trailer, saw, splitter, stacking, loading unloading, handling, chimney cleaning, dirt and ash, added insurance cost and then the time.........

Especially when a NG furnace is 90-96% efficient.........and some wood burners are half that. Then add NG is real cheap these days...winner and you just turn the dial on the wall.

Back in the day had two catalyst "high efficiency" wood stoves collected free wood from the state first with a permit. Those days are gone......

Those costs to cut wood are spread out over time.

My saw is 15 years old, paid for itself the first year as I know I would have a $1k bill for fuel oil to heat the garage all winter like I do. The new stove I bought last year or year and a half ago was less than what it would have cost foe fuel oil.

I haven't bought a chain for 3 years, bar oil and fuel mix has been atleast two seasons ago. Honestly, I think the only cost I incurred last year was gasoline for the saw, my truck, four wheeler and splitter. I did buy lunch a few times. . . . maybe $60 to heat for the season. This year, I had to buy a tire for my little dump trailer and have it mounted, $40. I cut and spilt enough last year that I only need to cut some small (limb) wood for getting the fires going.


The key to saving money with wood heat is having the time and place to cut. I actually enjoy cutting as it's peaceful yet gets me some decent exercise.


I had to check out prices on CL since I don't buy my wood and it looks to be around $60-80/truckload and around $150 for a cord.

 

[scooby074]

A proper cord , cut and split here is $235. Thats green, not seasoned, and delivered, not stacked.

8' Logs are $1000 when buying a full 8cd. truckload

 

[6768rogues]

The wood I burn is stuff that needs disposal at my home, farm or one of my son's properties. We keep our thermostat at about 68 degrees so it is cool upstairs for sleeping. I have a duct from our wood furnace to the sun porch, so when I start a fire it heats the sun porch primarily and the first floor of the house. I like to start an evening fire, take a shower, put on shorts and sit on the sun porch to watch TV. It is nice to be warm and in a mostly glass room in the winter. My son's neighbor is in the tree removal business, so if I run low he said I can get all the wood I need for free from him.

 

[James-W]

When I was a kid growing up, many of the local farmers had a woods on their farm. Invariably they would have oak trees available that had fallen down and they would let people come in cut up the wood and haul it away. As long as you did all the work and didn't cause any damage to the property, you could have the wood for free. It worked out well for everybody, the farmer got his woods cleaned up and you got free firewood.

 

[2diamondfarm]

$1900 for a 20 cord load

 

[Gila Monster]

When I was a kid growing up, many of the local farmers had a woods on their farm. Invariably they would have oak trees available that had fallen down and they would let people come in cut up the wood and haul it away. As long as you did all the work and didn't cause any damage to the property, you could have the wood for free. It worked out well for everybody, the farmer got his woods cleaned up and you got free firewood.

Nowadays, somebody would get hurt on the property and sue the farmer.

 

[engineer2]

As long as you did all the work and didn't cause any damage to the property, you could have the wood for free.

It's still that way. I looked at a few CL ads for "free firewood" and they showed a picture of a dead tree.

 

[larry_g]

Thing if you add in all the work and costs wood heat might actually be a loser in today pricing. Costs like the truck, gas, trailer, saw, splitter, stacking, loading unloading, handling, chimney cleaning, dirt and ash, added insurance cost and then the time.........

I love the "got no time" excuse from the guy that spends hours in the gym at some $$$ per month.. and drives there in a shiny pickup.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[6768rogues]

I love the "got no time" excuse from the guy that spends hours in the gym at some $$$ per month.. and drives there in a shiny pickup.

lg
no neat sig line

Yea, same guy who pays someone to mow his lawn and shovel his snow, but goes to the gym and thinks he is better than everyone who does his own work.

 

[jblnut]

I had to look it up here as well but it's around $60/cord for mixed hardwood/split/green wood. Dad and I have been burning wood since the beginning of time and the only cost we incur is fuel/oil and the occasional chain. If you cut and season it yourself your chains last WAY longer cutting green wood. We cut around a 20 cords a year with saws that are 30ish and 50ish years old. I replaced my stove last winter for $1,200 and it was over 30 years old. Dad's forced air stove it home built (like a damn tank) and is over 40 years old. Very cheap to heat with wood up here as there is an over abundance along all our field edges that needs to be cleaned up anyway. We do sell to some "townies" for $75/pickup load, you load as much as you can and it's $75. We sell to a few guys a few times a year and that alone has more than offset any costs we have had.

 

[ForceFed70]

Can't even get hardwood here. If you did I'm sure it'd be crazy expensive.

Around $150/cord for pine last time I looked + delivery.

 

[apollo11]

300 for a true cord of almond

 

[Matt Matt]

I don't get it.

Trees are pretty much free. People pay guys to cut them down then they pay more for removal. The next week their neighbour is buying mulch wood chips for the garden and Wood for heating and campfires.

Buy yourself a chainsaw. Buy yourself a log splitter or just make one. Pick yourself up a 45 gallon steel drum and make it into an incinerator to get rid of your brush.

Heck, just imagine if you started buying from this guy. Please watch the video very carefully!

 

[lakeroadster]

$165 a cord for Pine / Aspen here.

Hardwood is unobtanium.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

I don't get it.

Trees are pretty much free. People pay guys to cut them down then they pay more for removal. The next week their neighbour is buying mulch wood chips for the garden and Wood for heating and campfires.

Buy yourself a chainsaw. Buy yourself a log splitter or just make one. Pick yourself up a 45 gallon steel drum and make it into an incinerator to get rid of your brush.

Heck, just imagine if you started buying from this guy. Please watch the video very carefully!

I like the video, no contact info for the artisan firewood. I wonder if they sell on line. My postman will be mortified have to deliver a cord of this fine product. :

 

[Matt Matt]

I like the video, no contact info for the artisan firewood. I wonder if they sell on line. My postman will be mortified have to deliver a cord of this fine product. :

At $1200 per piece??? That would cost me about $2 million to heat my house for 3 months!

Just in case some weren't paying very close attention. One split log $1200? A little rollup of kennelling $499? I guess there's money to be made?