Phicle wood buyers this year.

[jrider]

When you mostly have repeat customers, you have a pretty hassle free firewood business no matter how many cords you choose to sell.

 

[stihlaficionado]

It's been proven many times. The ones with the least are more generous then those with most to give.

That's a generality…certainly not across the board

 

[sb47]

That's a generality…certainly not across the board

Its not set in stone but thoes born rich are very stingy, where those that worked for there fortune tend to give a little more.

 

[sb47]

Last year 1 sold half cords of seasoned red and post oak. My was price 140 a half cord.
This year I went up just 10 dollars to 150.
People call and say it was 140 last year, I cant pay 150.
They were ready to pay 140, but that extra 10 bucks turned them off.
Really, there going to bitch over 10 bucks?
Let see how many call back when it gets cold and i'm sold out.
I get the last laugh. lol

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

Several calls today, first day around here of below zero temps.

"I need wood right now, I'm cold, the water pipes are freezing up" Talk about waiting to the very last minute!

 

[chucker]

Several calls today, first day around here of below zero temps.

"I need wood right now, I'm cold, the water pipes are freezing up" Talk about waiting to the very last minute!

your just a cold weather slacker!! just burn some of that long winter darkness and see if it will keep you warm when it's in abundance?? lol

 

[chucker]

it's close to 60 degrees here for the next few days and then we are in for some of "vallyfirewoods" cooler temps ... wont remember what it is like to walk on water again!

 

[fearofpavement]

Got more calls about wood today than I have all season. Only one person actually showed up to get some.
Wanted to know if the wood was seasoned. I told him, yes it was. He came and looked over what I had, I showed him some at a different site that I had just split. (like yesterday) He wound up getting a load of that. Go figure... Guess the seasoned part wasn't that important to him...

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

When you mostly have repeat customers, you have a pretty hassle free firewood business no matter how many cords you choose to sell.

I dunno, seems like I end up with a few repeats that I have to guess they are because no other vendor will deal with them or deliver.

 

[chucker]

sold 5.5 cords on Wednesday, so now the sales are done and delivered for now.. the temps are for warmer degrees till mid week next when winter is to show his face of white an cold. bring it on !! I need more sales to pay for my fishing adventures on ice. a new wheel house or a bigger flip over for the twins ???? much to ponder !

 

[Marine5068]

I live in the deep south where firewood is not a big money maker .
I make more catering to BBQ restaurants and cook-off teams.
I sell about 30% firewood and the rest is cooking wood.
I get people in all the time that are very impressed with my set up.
I'm very anal about keeping my wood stacked in measured stacks and ether kept indoors or stacked out in the open.
I never leave a pile on the ground for more then a week when I'm working up a pile from splitting.
I also split my wood green and stack for seasoning.
I also offer it in a variety of sises to fit the needs of different clients.
I almost never advertise, I'm now have a great customer base of regulars that have shopped the rest and now have found the best.

Sounds like you worked hard and made your quality as lob one and good honest people will know this.
Up here Firewood is real expensive at about $300-$350 a cord for good stuff like Oak, Maple, Ash, Elm, Hickory or Cherry.
A few years back I sold a Cherry log to a guy that wanted it for smoking/cooking with and I got around 5 or 6 times the amount as for firewood.
I also had a large Butternut tree I helped a friend remove from his property and sold it all in rounds/unsplit to two separate carvers for ten times what it would go for as firewood/kindling.
What some people don't think about is not only the cost of all our machinery and equipment, but the labor of doing a job that most others don't want to do or are afraid to do.
That in itself is where the costs show up. My back is worth something....lol.

I just stick to my fair and set price and I don't get mad or take any low offers or comments personally. Just keep saying no, that's not acceptable. If they want it they will buy it. Cheers!

 

[sb47]

Sounds like you worked hard and made your quality as lob one and good honest people will know this.
Up here Firewood is real expensive at about $300-$350 a cord for good stuff like Oak, Maple, Ash, Elm, Hickory or Cherry.
A few years back I sold a Cherry log to a guy that wanted it for smoking/cooking with and I got around 5 or 6 times the amount as for firewood.
I also had a large Butternut tree I helped a friend remove from his property and sold it all in rounds/unsplit to two separate carvers for ten times what it would go for as firewood/kindling.
What some people don't think about is not only the cost of all our machinery and equipment, but the labor of doing a job that most others don't want to do or are afraid to do.
That in itself is where the costs show up. My back is worth something....lol.

I just stick to my fair and set price and I don't get mad or take any low offers or comments personally. Just keep saying no, that's not acceptable. If they want it they will buy it. Cheers!

You are correct!!! And thanks for the complement. People seem to think wood grows on trees, and while there technically rite, there not paying for the wood, but for the labor and machinery to turn that tree into usable firewood.
Firewood sellers come and go for many reasons, but the number one reason, is they didn't anticipate how hard the work is and quit. Then they want to buy my wood at a discount?
I say keep shopping or start chopping.

 

[sb47]

Sounds like you worked hard and made your quality as lob one and good honest people will know this.
Up here Firewood is real expensive at about $300-$350 a cord for good stuff like Oak, Maple, Ash, Elm, Hickory or Cherry.
A few years back I sold a Cherry log to a guy that wanted it for smoking/cooking with and I got around 5 or 6 times the amount as for firewood.
I also had a large Butternut tree I helped a friend remove from his property and sold it all in rounds/unsplit to two separate carvers for ten times what it would go for as firewood/kindling.
What some people don't think about is not only the cost of all our machinery and equipment, but the labor of doing a job that most others don't want to do or are afraid to do.
That in itself is where the costs show up. My back is worth something....lol.

I just stick to my fair and set price and I don't get mad or take any low offers or comments personally. Just keep saying no, that's not acceptable. If they want it they will buy it. Cheers!

I do get people wanting 2' rounds to use for decorations for center pieces on tables.
I had one lady stop by and wanted some different size rounds cut to veracious heights for a shoe display in the shop window.
Another guy wanted a big round for his boy scout troop to throw knives and hatchets at.
I took a 48"+ red oak flare and made a table for someones patio.
One middle eastern fellow stopped in and wanted wood shavings,Bermuda grass clippings, and some small rounds cut. I asked him what he wanted them for and he said it was a satanic ritual they were going to preform. I promptly invited him to leave. (NO SALE)