- Firewood prices -

[BargeMonkey]

 Well after only about 6wks of no firewood the phones ringing hard again.  Just wanna ask around and see what its going for in the northeast region, fuels gone up and im not doing it for nothing this year. When the piles gone its gone.  8)

[Mapleman]

I'm selling my firewood here in Southern Vermont for $205 a full cord, delivered locally.

[Woodboogah]

I was talking to the truck driver yesterday and he was telling me he is having a heck of a time getting any firewood (log length) seems thats the general consensus in this area all the log length guys cant get it. 

[HiTech]

We deliver cut/split 10 cord loads for $500. Local only. That is cheap. Fuel costs and equipment upkeep is rising everyday. Also firewood is getting scarce. Everyone is chipping. Next year the price will go up.

[Peter Drouin]

Can sell it for 250 a cord green. This winter, it will be 300 for dry. ;D

[tj240]

we sell it log length for 70 a cord off the landing, but you do it cut and split right. hard wood pulp is up so it is hard to get firewood. off the landing the buyer hauls it
if we have to pay the trucker to haul it ranges from 700 to 800 for a 7 cord load depending how for it goes

[BargeMonkey]

 Everyone wants a deal and thats the problem. When we became a HEAP vendor it 2x the amount of insurance required on certain things, plus the associated comp costs. I was 225-240 cash, this year its got to go up. The little guys are getting less and less, and the cost of stuff is going up, planning on stocking up @ boonville in a few weeks.

[BargeMonkey]

We deliver cut/split 10 cord loads for $500. Local only. That is cheap. Fuel costs and equipment upkeep is rising everyday. Also firewood is getting scarce. Everyone is chipping. Next year the price will go up.

How far will you deliver ? If I buy say, 500 cord can I get a better discount ?  How are you covering the fuel and saws for 50 a cord ?

[HiTech]

We deliver cut/split 10 cord loads for $500. Local only. That is cheap. Fuel costs and equipment upkeep is rising everyday. Also firewood is getting scarce. Everyone is chipping. Next year the price will go up.

How far will you deliver ? If I buy say, 500 cord can I get a better discount ?  How are you covering the fuel and saws for 50 a cord ?

They are face cords, not full cords. We cut locally and sell to the same people year after year. Our farthest customer might be 20 miles away. We don't sell log length.

[BargeMonkey]

We deliver cut/split 10 cord loads for $500. Local only. That is cheap. Fuel costs and equipment upkeep is rising everyday. Also firewood is getting scarce. Everyone is chipping. Next year the price will go up.

How far will you deliver ? If I buy say, 500 cord can I get a better discount ?  How are you covering the fuel and saws for 50 a cord ?

They are face cords, not full cords. We cut locally and sell to the same people year after year. Our farthest customer might be 20 miles away. We don't sell log length.

Ok good, I was getting excited figuring I could just buy 500 cord, double my money and mothball my skidder for the winter.  :D 
Friend of mine lives out western part of the state and they use that dirty word "face cord" also, i rarely see it advertised that way around here anymore. Watching a woodpile dry is better than money in the bank these days.  8)

[GRANITEstateMP]

I'm just a little guy only do about 30 cord a year.  I'm in the SE part of NH and I'm getting $220 a cord green, delivered (10 miles or less) right now.  As Woodboogah said, tree length is tough to get your hands on right now, should push the selling price up in the next couple months.  I got a used Hakki 1x37 processor this year and was hoping to bump up from 30 to 50 cord, now I'll be happy just to take care of my regular customers.  I'm  hoping to get a couple cord stashed away and drying so come mid January I can put up the C-List add and get $310!

[beenthere]

They are face cords, not full cords.

Something just not right about saying cord, and not clarifying it to say "face cord" when it really is a face cord, and not a cord. Much like saying poplar when meaning (or not) yellow poplar or tulip poplar.   (end of rant  )

Likely why states have tried to correct this with standard units of measure.  ;)

[Woodhauler]

I have to pay 100 a cord on the yard!!! Selling for 125-140 a cord!!Tree lenghth!!!!

[BargeMonkey]

 I look at it as more a regional thing, when I went to pick up an engine this spring out in Mexico NY all the signs said "facecord", and all the guys talked wood volume that way. Problem ive noticed is when you break that magic # it becomes a pain in the a$$. Need 2-3 trucks, more help, more wood. I read about these guys up north doing 3k+ cord a year, they can have it. I could sell 100 cord log length right now, im just sick of powerlines, people wanting it so close to the house, my insurance has stayed lower for a reason.

[deastman]

Up here in eastern and northern Maine it is running between $215 -250 per cord for cut, split and delivered

[Ken]

Firewood in log form has gotten very scarce in this area this year.  Prices are 135-150/cord delivered if you can find it and green cut, split and delivered is $250-275/cord.  Wish we had more access to hardwood this year.

[EFR]

Wow.  I'm doing something wrong;  I'm selling log length on the landing for $60/cord.

[timberlinetree]

Me to I'm only getting 325-400 a load.

[bill m]

Wow.  I'm doing something wrong;  I'm selling log length on the landing for $60/cord.

Me to I'm only getting 325-400 a load.

I Know it can cost a lot to keep a log truck on the road ( I have my own ) but I don't think the truckers should be getting 350 to 400 just for delivery.

[Ryan D]

Firewood in log form has gotten very scarce in this area this year.  Prices are 135-150/cord delivered if you can find it and green cut, split and delivered is $250-275/cord.  Wish we had more access to hardwood this year.

We're in the same boat in NS. Our new biomass boiler in Cape Breton is eating up all of the hardwood it seems. I've been lucky to get on a few lots lately that have had a good amount of hardwood and orders have been brisk. I don't even advertise but seem to get 3 or 4 calls per week. We're selling for $250/cord now but the price will go up in the fall. I have about 20 cords stashed away drying for the winter which will go for $300+ this winter.

[chester_tree _farmah]

We deliver cut/split 10 cord loads for $500. Local only. That is cheap. Fuel costs and equipment upkeep is rising everyday. Also firewood is getting scarce. Everyone is chipping. Next year the price will go up.

Wow. 500 cut and split. That is cheap!

[BargeMonkey]

 Ive got a wholesale customer, who I will probably drop 50 cord too, who is reselling it, delivered and stacked for 600+ a cord to the ritzy ski chalets, hows that for a profit increase.

[glassman_48]

bargemonkey,
there are a lot of firewood guys now taking dino bags or palletized firewood and dropping them off at places like you just mentioned.  You have to have a much different trucking set up than most of us use now.  One guy makes weekly rounds and drops a bag in the driveway and picks up his bag he left the week before. 

[BargeMonkey]

 My cousin does the bundles, and 1 guy does it wrapped on pallets, its more of a time thing. I have about 30 metal baskets that hold 1/2 a cord each, and I could hypothetically drop wood of with them. We ran out of wood 4 seasons ago and got stuck buying wood log length from up north to supply our contract customers. We can fill the baskets and put 6 of them in our kiln, rotating them every 3-5 days and stay ahead if we had to.

[Mark K]

The state job I just moved onto is 194k ft with roughly 22 truck and pup loads of log length firewood according to the contract. I started making calls to sell it before I started. Sold all of it in a day. Mill is constantly getting bombarded with calls looking for log length. Must be none to be had.