Price of a cord of firewood

[luvmexfood]

Here in Southwest Virginia I noticed an ad on CL for seasoned wood $120 a cord not stacked or a full-size pickup for $70. Actually, it is a violation of state law to sell wood by the "load". All wood sold must be sold by a recognized unit of measure. Either by the cord (128 cubic ft.) or by the amount of cubic ft.

Sort of like buying gas and they say I will sell you a can of gas for X amount of money but either they don't say how big the can is or how many gallons is in the can. Not much on government regulations but I do understand the need for this one. They just don't have a "firewood police" to enforce it.

 

[TnAndy]

Same here in Northeast TN. Nobody knows what a cord is......all wood ads are "pickup load".....completely meaningless amount.

 

[Chilly807]

I stopped at a local wood "dealer" a couple days ago looking to buy 8 foot lengths of green hardwood. He has a processor working a few days a week, selling cut and split wood for $260 a cord. He refused to sell any full lengths, which tells me he's paying a lot less for a cord than $260, and can make a lot more money after cutting and splitting it than he would if he sold me full lengths at a markup.


Sean

 

[dave1949]

I stopped at a local wood "dealer" a couple days ago looking to buy 8 foot lengths of green hardwood. He has a processor working a few days a week, selling cut and split wood for $260 a cord. He refused to sell any full lengths, which tells me he's paying a lot less for a cord than $260, and can make a lot more money after cutting and splitting it than he would if he sold me full lengths at a markup.


Sean

You can get a rough idea of historical prices in these reports. It's hard to find current reports usually. I guess it takes a while to compile the stats.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=at5lMxgRg67jzBJeqJU-Dg&bvm=bv.57155469,d.cWc

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=CjLOaasRi0mW8dCHC_wcCw&bvm=bv.57155469,d.cWc

 

[jymbee]

Am curious as to what you all pay in your areas for a cord of wood.

I sold firewood in Manhattan many years ago. Small quantity calculated out came to over $600/cord. Looks like the price has nudged up a bit since then as the same math comes out to over $1,500 per cord! Might be time to call up some old customers...

 

[joshuabardwell]

People who sell "felled a year ago, split last week" wood as seasoned really get my goat. If it's seasoned, I should be able to burn it today, and that means at least six months since splitting.

 

[TomSeller]

I burn no less than 2 year old wood (since blow down or cut down), usually 3.

 

[adirondackmtnman]

I sold firewood in Manhattan many years ago. Small quantity calculated out came to over $600/cord. Looks like the price has nudged up a bit since then as the same math comes out to over $1,500 per cord! Might be time to call up some old customers...

Only if Manhattan is less than 50 miles from the stump where the wood was cut, or you have a kiln to dry the firewood...Gotta love the new regulations. May have something to do with the uptick in price there though

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[dmccarty]

People pay for a health club. He gets his excersise and gets paid for it.

You ain't kidding either. We just joined a health club primarily for the wifey and I am determined to get rid of another 15-20 pounds of fat. My diet is now at a level that I am maintaining or loosing weight so any exercise will burn fat. Years ago, I did Atkins and lost the weight but I my diet was not under control so I gained the weight back even though I was working long hours on our property AND going to a gym.

I bought a heart rate monitor early this year, or late last year, to use on the indoor bike. I started wearing it outside when splitting wood, running the chainsaw and going to the gym. I have only been going to the gym for a month or so and I am NOT pushing myself. I have learned to NOT push myself since all I do is get injured or so sore I can't work out as much as I would like. At the gym, I walk or run, the gym has a little track, use the dozen or so weight machines, use the rowing torture device, and the step machine. The most calories I have burned has been around 1,100 calories. The workouts will get more taxing over time and I will burn more calories, eventually...

Saturday, I ran three tanks of fuel through the chain saw cutting up a couple smaller trees and one large tree. In about the same time I spent in the gym, I burned around 1,400 calories! I think I burned more than that because the chainsaw engine seems to interfere with the heart rate monitor. All I was doing was cutting the tree into rounds so I can split. When I was splitting wood over the summer, I was burning up to 1,600-1,700 calories in a bit over two hours which produced about 1/3 of a cord of wood.

After splitting, I have to move the wood to the house. Right now, the trees are downhill from the house, so I have to push the loaded twin wheel barrow UPHILL which is good exercise! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

To have a cord of firewood, a good, ball park guess is that it takes at least 2,000 calories to cut up a tree into splitting rounds and at least another 4,500 calories to split the wood. So at least 6,500 calories to get a cord of wood. Or to put it another way, I loose, or should loose, about 2 pounds of fat to get a cord of firewood! :thumbsup: :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Hopefully, with the gym AND my usual chores, I can loose what I call the Emergency Pouch which the kids call my fat stomach. :shocked:

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

Smells better too. Downside: can't watch the college girls in their Zumba class. :laughing:

At the gym I go too, the classes which are mostly attended by girls, are in a room which cannot be viewed from the main part of the gym. Now, this might seem bad, but I am one of the YOUNGEST people in the gym! :shocked: Some of the ladies are in great shape.... But then there are others.... :laughing::laughing::laughing:

The men are far worse!

Thankfully, the step machine I am using is in the front row so I do not have to look at some people's back sides. Some are rather attractive but there are far more unattractive sights that I would rather be in The Front Row! :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan