Firewood prices tumbling?

[Wood Doctor]

With oil half [or less] than July, a lot of people will reach for the t-stat before the woodpile. Some signed contracts for 4.80/gal for # 2 oil then. Right now it's 2.98. That's sad. Most ads around here are 200/cord, I see a few for 275, but you don't know if they're selling any. Back when they were talking 5.00 fuel oil this winter, people were scared. I don't get that feeling now. Hey, gas is cheap again [ha ha]. Those suv's will be rolling off the assembly line anytime now! All the soccer moms won't have to trade the Lincoln Navigator for a Hundai...

Disgusting, isn't it? Natural gas is heading for a $7/mcf after utilities and gas companies charged customers an average of $14.50/mcf nationwide last month.

Yep, the t-stat is winning again. Mike, I think the firewood delivery business is being burned. :monkey:

 

[Ole Farmerbuck]

This year i'm delivering to town 12 miles. $85/ short box tossed in. $115 long box tossed in. All elm. I tell people that i'm not selling them the wood....just my labor!

 

[dancan]

This year i'm delivering to town 12 miles. $85/ short box tossed in. $115 long box tossed in. All elm. I tell people that i'm not selling them the wood....just my labor!

A fair price for labor and personal service (It all takes time and effort ).

 

[ropensaddle]

This year i'm delivering to town 12 miles. $85/ short box tossed in. $115 long box tossed in. All elm. I tell people that i'm not selling them the wood....just my labor!

You sell elm :monkey: I can't give that away here its
all red oak white oak black oak or hickory ash.

 

[coostv]

I am able to get a cord on my long bed I figured it out by the cubic foot!
My box is 5'8" wide by 8' long If I stack it tight and mound it to the top
of the cab it is a cord I have stacked it on the ground and it is 4+4+8.
I am going to put some stake boards to make it easier and safer though.
Then I can stack it 2.8 foot front to back and should be the same my
old truck is 3/4 ton with 1ton springs in the back!

A Slick60's wood hauler? Nice! I have to rep you for that!! Nice choice of truck.

Chris

 

[ropensaddle]

A Slick60's wood hauler? Nice! I have to rep you for that!! Nice choice of truck.

Chris

Thanks it is a forest special 4+4 390 four speed granny it will
idle straight up hill with a load in granny. They called it a
high boy!

 

[Wood Doctor]

Thanks it is a forest special 4+4 390 four speed granny it will idle straight up hill with a load in granny. They called it a
high boy!

There's only one solution. Cold weather. Somehow they have to appreciate the product we are delivering. I hear this weekend it will get back to normal. But, these low NG and fuel oil prices are hard to overcome.

How do you predict heating gluts like this?

 

[TheGrunt]

Not to bad

We are a little slow at 200 a cord delivered, but know that when all the little guys have sold out I will be the one with wood and they will pay my price. Lots of winter left yet.

 

[ropensaddle]

There's only one solution. Cold weather. Somehow they have to appreciate the product we are delivering. I hear this weekend it will get back to normal. But, these low NG and fuel oil prices are hard to overcome.

How do you predict heating gluts like this?

I really feel for anyone making their living from firewood it sucks.
I don't even try to sell it but they still call I sell a cord or two
and burn six but they sell it here for 150.00 I say no it is 200.00
if you want mine delivered it is close to four hundred worth of labor imo.

 

[Ole Farmerbuck]

You sell elm :monkey: I can't give that away here its
all red oak white oak black oak or hickory ash.

Thats all we have here is elm. People are pleased with it. The wood is given to me so i give it away and sell my labor!

 

[Husky137]

Everyone is sold out around me. Gotta sell it early while the oil prices are still causing panic.

 

[ropensaddle]

Thats all we have here is elm. People are pleased with it. The wood is given to me so i give it away and sell my labor!

I thought ya had locust and hedge or osage orange better than elm.
I burn it though I burn anything in my outdoor furnace and sell the
good chit. I have more rot in a year that I burn or sell as I don't like
doing it for the price it brings.

 

[Ole Farmerbuck]

I thought ya had locust and hedge or osage orange better than elm.
I burn it though I burn anything in my outdoor furnace and sell the
good chit. I have more rot in a year that I burn or sell as I don't like
doing it for the price it brings.

There are a few locust trees around....very few. hedge and the other stuff is East of me. I'm only 60 miles from the Colorado border.

 

[Ole Farmerbuck]

A fair price for labor and personal service (It all takes time and effort ).

yep. My wood is 2 miles from my house so it isnt bad. Just push the tree over and get it ready. If i didnt like running saws so much, i wouldnt even mess with it. Should do about 30 or so full cords this year. So far i have delivered 3 loads! Lot of people waiting though.

 

[ropensaddle]

There are a few locust trees around....very few. hedge and the other stuff is East of me. I'm only 60 miles from the Colorado border.

Wow cool the rolling hills ehhhhhh:monkey: Huge Buck turf,
so how about ole ropey coming out and harvesting one of those
fine animals? Might even bring some oak or hickory fer that!

 

[Ole Farmerbuck]

Wow cool the rolling hills ehhhhhh:monkey: Huge Buck turf,
so how about ole ropey coming out and harvesting one of those
fine animals? Might even bring some oak or hickory fer that!

I see 11 or 12 about every morning on my way to the farm. No bucks in the group though. White tail running with the mulies now. If you shoot one, we'll need you to shoot ......8!

 

[Ole Farmerbuck]

There have been some record or neer record deer taken from here.

 

[ropensaddle]

There have been some record or neer record deer taken from here.

Habitat for monsters for sure I am a bowhunter so cover would be
hard to come by. I would use my gillie suit and spot and stalk glass
glass and more glassing until I found the sad daddy then stalk into the wind.

 

[Ole Farmerbuck]

Habitat for monsters for sure I am a bowhunter so cover would be
hard to come by. I would use my gillie suit and spot and stalk glass
glass and more glassing until I found the sad daddy then stalk into the wind.

There are a lot of bow hunters around here, A lot of then go north about 20 or 25 miles to the State Park. Lots of trees.

 

[ropensaddle]

There are a lot of bow hunters around here, A lot of then go north about 20 or 25 miles to the State Park. Lots of trees.

Yeah but those monsters are out there in those rolling hills
bedded so glass and stalk. It is possible when you know there location
especially with a wind. I have stalked deer my ghillie suit makes me blend,
I have had them look at me and walk toward me thinking I am a bush and
would probably nibble if they did not smell me.