logs where do you get them and how much ??

[sloth9669]

Hello all. I just wanted to see where everyone gets there logs from to make firewood. Also what is the going rate per cord you pay... Iam finding its close to 100 per cord in logs and by the time i cut split and sell iam doing the most work for the lease amount of money in the hole deal...just want to see what you guys are paying and where your getting it from ??

 

[olyman]

check with other tree services in your area---

 

[Patrick62]

.... from the forest ....

I have a unfair advantage. I have a forest within reach that needs thinning, and diseased trees removed from it.

elsewhere it is going to be a different story. I bet that the price per cord reflects this!

-Pat

 

[Outback]

Dumb question from an Aussie time. How much wood in a cord?

 

[BC_Logger]

A cord is 4 x 4 x8 so in cubic feet theirs 128 cubic feet in a cord of wood

 

[Outback]

Thanks mate, I can now work out how many cords of wood I burn a winter. :newbie:

 

[Bass]

i paid 75 for a cord's worth of logs (more like a cord 1/4) all hard wood

i've got nothing but time so to me it was a good deal

 

[kellog]

Around here they get $500 for a logging truck full of good hardwood logs and it is about 7 cords.

 

[TDunk]

I get most of my wood right from the forest. Any wind blown/dead standing trees are fair game. Around here the going rate is $100 a cord picked-up, and delivery is more depending on how far away.

 

[VelvetFoot]

I also paid $500 for a truckload of logs.

 

[Corley5]

65 to 70 dollars per cord on a 20 cord load.

 

[johnha]

Price or cost, they're two different things?

I've been heating with wood for about 5 years and have gathered all my own wood so its all been 'free'.

Of course I had to get a new chainsaw, then another (I just point to my wife's shoe collection and say 'now you understand'. Then came the Brave 26 ton splitter after I blew out my shoulder. Then another chainsaw. Gas and oil for the saw. Wear and tear on the pickup. I've got my eye on another chainsaw.

 

[stipton]

$500 here for a truckload of hardwoods. 2 per season for me.

j

 

[Poindexter]

Hel what is the going rate per cord you pay...

Central North Carolina rate is $65 for a pickup truck full, I drive to the farm, pay the $65, load my truck myself, bring it home, unload my truck... delivered is a lot more, for about half a cord.

Just in my neighborhood I picked up two cords this spring dropping dead and diseased trees for my neighbors before hurricane season starts. I have one more coming in later this week, it is about 85 feet tall and right next to a $500k house. The owner is going to have a pro drop the tree in the yard and then I can have it, another cord easy, maybe two.

I am probably only going to need 3-4 cords total this winter even if we have a "bad, cold" winter in NC this year, so once I stack the fourth cord I am going to start turning logs in to parts for a wooden boat...

Also, a good friend of mine bought ten acres about three years ago and put a house on it. He had to clear a road back to his land, the trees that got dropped have been getting cheaper and cheaper. He has been complaining about it for a while without actually offering to sell them to me. Finally his wife is tired of all the dead trees lining the driveway. I got about 50 logs yesterday, 10-15" diameter, 8-15 feet long, free. All I have to do is stack them behind the weeds so his wife can't see them.

 

[Ductape]

In the past three or four years i've paid eighty dollars for one pickup load of seasoned wood (i was running low). The rest (six or seven cord/year) has all been free. I've scrounged anywhere i can. When friends have had to have trees taken down for one reason or another, i'm always there with saw in hand to clean up. My B.I.L. works for the highway dept. and last year got me approx seven cord from where the state was cutting trees back from the edges of secondary routes. Of course.... i'm still in the red, since i now have four saws,a dump trailer,splitter, etc., etc. ........ but i should be in the black in another year or so. Well...... if i can keep from buying more toys, ahem.... i mean TOOLS ! :chainsawguy:

Scott

 

[upandcommer]

loaded my trailer (6x12x2 foot 2dump trailers 6x10x3 foot and a pickup 1/2 full) all for the cost of gas and a good rakeing on the yard once we cleaned up the mess so a total of 3 1/4 cord of sugar maple already blocked to 2 foot lengths last week it was 2 of my trailers full of pin oak 30-36" rounds x18" long for the same price call the tree services in the area they get to leave the stuff behind and you get the wood for the cost of cleanup to the jobsite. The only thing I found while calling around is you must be willing to come get it the day they call and or the next day. So if you are busy then this is not for you but for me. My wood pile is almost done for the season after two weeks of being on the list for one tree service Give it a shot. All it costs is a phone call.

 

[njtuna]

my town is more than happy to get rid of any trees they trim or cut down. some are very large, as with the maple i got almost 2 cords from. they will even deliver it to my house for free. we just had some severe microburst storms come through 2 weeks ago which took down a lot of trees, including some very large oaks. unfortunately, i have no more room for wood- well, i do have the room, but my wife says we don't

 

[Agnes]

they will even deliver it to my house for free. we just had some severe microburst storms come through 2 weeks ago which took down a lot of trees, including some very large oaks.

Are you near Allendale? I read they got hit pretty bad with that Microburst. Consider yourself lucky if the town will deliver to your house, by me the town leaves all the wood they take down in a common spot for all so it is usually first come first serve.

 

[njtuna]

allendale is town next to me, very close. they had 27 trees down according to the paper. mostly large oak and ash i think? i got a cord of oak from my friend in kinnelon who lost a couple of trees. they got hit hard too. he probably has another 2 cords worth that i cannot take for lack of room. red and chestnut oak. wish i had more space!!!

 

[Esbjug]

Scandinavian firewood prices

I have done some calculations, from Cords to m3 or liters used here in Norway.

1 Cord should be 3,62 m3 or 3620 liter. 1 m3 is 0,276 Cord

A pallet with dry, ready firewood at 1 m3 is usually sold for $65 to $125.
In Cords this is $235 to $450.

Some firewood is also sold in 60 liter or 80 liter bags to houseowners. To take birch as an example, the Cord price is about $700

In larger quantities, not dried, as logs, the Cord price is in the region $90 to $180.

But, please........

do not steal my customers......

Hans, Norway