Ideas on why people won't buy ash/hackberry firewood?

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JIMBOJANGO

I live in Kansas too, let me know what ditch you throw it in.

I have MILES of creeks with ash and hackberry's covering them! it is just that i would LIKE to get something outta the wood :) hell i could have a dozer in there and spend a lot of money and have it cleared in a couple weeks.

On the "yuppies" thing. I've been selling in Western KS and I'm starting to assume that only people with extra money will buy pleasure/fireplace wood. Maybe thats why they want oak. I also am charging somewhat of a premium ($125 a rick $225 a cord) for 20" pieces and am adding in the extra to actually make a cord. I would just like to be able to get 200 a cord out of the hackberry and keep selling it. I drive out there 3 or 4 times a week and anytime i go without wood its COSTS :) fuel is to expensive to go empty for my "real" job
 
People around here are stupid Jimbo, it's all about snobbery! Oak is hard as hell to get around Wichita, it has to be brought in, so it demands a premium! I don't know what you are selling it for, but I got cleaned out at $125 a rick, could have sold more, but with my back all messed up it was best for me to quit while I was ahead.
Look at the stupid bundles sold at all the Quicktrips! JUNK, but people gobble it up!
Label it as mixed hardwoods, run an add on Craigslist for $85 a rick, your phone will blow up! Tell them it's good and seasoned, it's a mix of Hackberry, Ash, Oak and whatever you can come up with. "Some Oak" doesn't have to be much, but as soon as you say Oak, it's wanted.
Another idea, we used to sell the crap out of "mixed wood", pure D CRAP wood! Elm, Pine, Birch, Cottonweed, whatever we had, but we made sure 1/3 of it was hardwood when we mixed it. Sold it for $50 a rick and most winters did good to keep up! But it's a good way to get rid of wood you can't move otherwise.
I've done some other "iffy" things to move wood, bundle up some about the size of what they sell at Quicktrips, take a trailer load of this and hand it out to people at the apartment complexes near them with cards. We would explain how much wood they would get and we would be happy to help divide it up with neighbors and the more neighbors that bought, the cheaper it got for everybody. As we were giving the wood away, it wasn't really soliciting, but pushing the limits for sure!
Just saying, there are ways to move wood, you just have to think outside the box on times.

I don't think there is much profit in $85 wood :) at least not delivered out west. Been selling hedge locally for $70 though and selling some, not cleaning up but i also am not exactly doing this for money, i'm doing it for expense money and to get it off the edges of my fields and outta pastures.

And my oak all comes from just south of the kansas line off some ground i bought, it IS local :) all bur oaks, and huge #####es at that :)
 
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