Bundles?

[woodshax]

Rarefish your math is about right....We average about $1100 to $1200 a cord....it is like buying an $8 beer at the ball game....convenience and a captive audience drives up the price

Valley....I have not forgotten I have a good card reader and telemetry system but I got side tracked on another project and am just finishing up UL testing on it...I will circle back and figure out where I left off

Wood doctor- I see your point on soft wood We use mostly Oak (some pecan) and it is heavy....so Our large bags which are 2 Cuft by volume....can only fit in about 1.3 cuft of wood and that makes it right around 45 lbs......we put signage up that basically says "Firewood is heavy and a big bag can weigh up to 50 Lbs...be careful ..... there are small bags of wood here as well if weight is a concern" I remember a day when you did not have to explain obvious things to people so they would not sue you.

We split to different sizes so that they can get the fire going but I think a mix of hard and soft would work the best to help them get it started....but if they do not know that a big bag of wood is heavy I am not sure they will ever figure out how to start a fire...unless I include a can of gas in each bag....but then I would have to have more signage telling them that gas is not a beverage and drinking could be fatal

 

[rarefish383]

I had a friend that used to have a pallet rebuilding business. All of the busted up non usable pallet stock went into a tub grinder. She used to fill paper lunch bags with the dried pallet chips and sell it for wood starter. Rip the bag open, put under wood, one match. When I was toying with the idea of bags, I was going to put in a gallon zip lock bag of noodles or chips from my plainer in each bundle. I plain old Oak fence boards to make train display boards. In one session I can create enough curly Oak chips to supply a cord of bundles, Joe.