how far do you deliver firewood?

[Wood Doctor]

I add $10 for delivery and stacking. It usually takes about an hour. Most customers offer to help. Those that don't usually toss in another $5. Heck, the last guy even swept out the bed of my truck. I'll remember that for awhile.

Like everything else in this business, it's give and take. Cooler weather is on the way, so don't be surprised if you start running out of stock. If you have to, split until the cows come home and whenever the sun shines.

 

[Hinerman]

No way in hell. I don't like to go more than 20 minutes away. But where I live there are plenty of people close by and I can't meet current demand. If things were different, I may consider it but it would cost him big time. As stated earlier, I'm sure the customer could get firewood cheaper from a closer source.

Same here. I already charge $10 per rick for local delivery (10 mile radius), which comes out to $30 per cord.

I normally charge more to stack. If I can back up to the stack and the customer helps me stack, or the person is elderly or disabled, I don't charge to stack. Otherwise, i get another $10 per rick to stack.

 

[jrider]

I add $10 for delivery and stacking. It usually takes about an hour. Most customers offer to help. Those that don't usually toss in another $5. Heck, the last guy even swept out the bed of my truck. I'll remember that for awhile.

Like everything else in this business, it's give and take. Cooler weather is on the way, so don't be surprised if you start running out of stock. If you have to, split until the cows come home and whenever the sun shines.

$10 to stack how much? I hardly ever stack but if I do I bring a helper and it usually works out to $1 a minute. I hate stacking.

 

[Wood Doctor]

$10 to stack how much? I hardly ever stack but if I do I bring a helper and it usually works out to $1 a minute. I hate stacking.

Usually it's only a racked-up truckload, which in my case is about 85 cu ft. The buyers and/or their children usually help. They love the exercise. So do I. If they have no rack, I crib stack the ends of the pile and show them how to do that. Most have no idea what the crib stack method is, so it's a learning process.

One guy told me that about the only time his wheelbarrow gets used is when I deliver his firewood. Oh, and BTW, the largest distance I usually drive is about 40 miles one way. Four gallons of gas is about $10.

 

[Ted Jenkins]

When I deliver to larger cities very often I get $50 per half cords for stacking. I usually deliver wood stacked only and with about $50 added to the price. Very very few people want a whole cord and many do not use a full half a cord during the winter. When I deliver to my local mountains every thing changes. About half the people want it stacked knowing they will pay for it. In one extreme case I charged $800 to stack 1 cord of Pine and I got a $50 tip. In the mountains it all depends on how many stairs will I have to climb. I never charge less than $40 per hour knowing that the maximum a guy can handle is 2 to 3 cords per day. From what I am reading many live in areas where wood is pretty plentiful and many people cut wood for business or on the side. Not so in California. I always looked at it as what will keep my customers happy and be competitive. Some times it is difficult to guess just right every time. Thanks

 

[Tenderfoot]

I add $10 for delivery and stacking. It usually takes about an hour. Most customers offer to help. Those that don't usually toss in another $5. Heck, the last guy even swept out the bed of my truck. I'll remember that for awhile.

Like everything else in this business, it's give and take. Cooler weather is on the way, so don't be surprised if you start running out of stock. If you have to, split until the cows come home and whenever the sun shines.

I sold out today. Never had this much interest the first day of the season. I may need to hire a helper to keep up.

 

[lknchoppers]

I deliver up to two hours away. The price depends how many orders I have in that particular area. I'll be going 1.5 hours away tomorrow to deliver and stack a cord. Price is $400 delivered and stacked. I'll have another cord on the truck that is just getting dumped without stacking. I would much rather pickup an extra $100 driving for an hour than splitting wood for an hour. I just had a guy about an hour and a half away want a load of all Hickory, I gave him a price of $450. I usually get $400 for the same load within an hour away.

 

[lknchoppers]

Just picked up a second delivery truck this week 2003 F250 4x4 SuperDuty Gas. I looked for another Diesel but this just was a great deal for me. It hauled the full dump trailer with ease and four wheel disc brakes are sweet.

 

[Wood Doctor]

That is exactly the truck I intend to buy when my '97 Ranger bites the dust. And, every time I says that the truck responds by performing admirably. It's as if it hears the threat. Not only that, my friends keep reminding me that they want to buy my truck.

I also like that dump trailer (hydraulic no doubt). My friends keep telling me to buy one of those.

 

[Tenderfoot]

Just picked up a second delivery truck this week 2003 F250 4x4 SuperDuty Gas. I looked for another Diesel but this just was a great deal for me. It hauled the full dump trailer with ease and four wheel disc brakes are sweet.

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I have one of the 6 speed 7.3's, a 2000, love it, but fuel economy leaves something to be desired. They are good trucks regardless of flaws.

Fair warning, they really need a sway bar (was a factory option mine does not have) and a better limited slip. I had a true trac installed in the rear. Very very good option and preforms well in all the mud, truck pulls, ice and pavement I have used it on. Very aggressive without impeding handling. There is a way to lock up the 4R100s so you can get engine braking, probably will help if you live in the mountains. Its a popular mod with the diesel crowd. You can find it on Powerstroke nation or similar.

But I wont deliver to certain towns around me. Too many 9-12% hills and hairpin turns on said hills. Not worth the trouble.

 

[Wood Doctor]

I have one of the 6 speed 7.3's, a 2000, love it, but fuel economy leaves something to be desired. They are good trucks regardless of flaws.

Fair warning, they really need a sway bar (was a factory option mine does not have) and a better limited slip. I had a true trac installed in the rear. Very very good option and preforms well in all the mud, truck pulls, ice and pavement I have used it on. Very aggressive without impeding handling. There is a way to lock up the 4R100s so you can get engine braking, probably will help if you live in the mountains. Its a popular mod with the diesel crowd. You can find it on Powerstroke nation or similar.

But I wont deliver to certain towns around me. Too many 9-12% hills and hairpin turns on said hills. Not worth the trouble.

I have run into 10% hills in the bluffs around eastern Nebraska and western Iowa and the roads are gravel. These require a drop down to 4-wheel drive and granny low, just to make it to the house when fully loaded. It's no fun. I tend to think twice before a repeat delivery. Even the chimney sweep called me and said he had trouble.

 

[Tenderfoot]

I feel OK doing them loaded at 15-20 MPH. But the Bimmer behind me, not so much. The tailgating and honking wont make things go faster. Ill do them early in the season when the roads are good, but not after a rain and not when there is ice or snow on them for certain.

 

[firewoodpanaca]

I have a 20ft gooseneck trailer which is 8ft wide with 4ft sideboards. It holds 5 4ftX4ftX8ft cords of wood which I travel in the State of Nevada up to 600miles round trip to deliver. I do not deliver partial trailer loads. I get up to $270 per cord or $1350 per trailer load. I live 165 miles from Vegas and have 150 wood customers there. They all do not order every year. I charge $250 per cord and we stack it. I have a ramp which comes down off the rear of the gooseneck and I get two workers each trip to Vegas from a halfway house there. They wheelbarrel the wood off the trailer and stack it at the customers home. I have been doing this for 20 years.