Your successful cause you don’t sell your wood, you service your customers! Asking the questions allows you to give them what they need/want. Both situations you sell your wood. You way builds a relationship and that’s what builds business
I'm very fortunate here in Pa. I found an Amish farmer that had 4 cords of Locust cut split and covered for 2 years. He only wanted $170 a full cord delivered! I got all of it. Then I found a place that sells a dump truck full of split red oak delivered for $750. It's roughly 4 cords. This is my first winter heating with wood and I LOVE it! I'm saving a ton not burning oil.
@@InTheWoodyard It's all cut. Next winters wood is in my driveway. It's just too easy to make a call and have 4 cords of dry red oak show up. I just have to stack it.
Chris- I’ve been selling firewood for years and found this video very informative. I get a lot of the same questions here in Western NY. People are so leery and I don’t blame them. I always carry a moisture meter in the truck and take the time to answer questions. The result is repeat customers for many years
Great video. If I had to buy processed firewood from a stranger I would have to visit their facility to check out their operation. Also, I have seen guys with trucks or trailers full of wood waiting in busy areas. If you want the wood they have they follow you home. Either visit the facility or see the wood on the truck. That is a good way to have some piece of mind. Just say'in.
Chris I’m just starting my own firewood business in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 and I’m very happy that you did this video got a lot great information out of it! Thanks love your channel and what you’ve built here on RU-vid!
One big seller in the SW is Juniper. 23-24 BTU’s, that up there with walnut, and ash. We also have scrub oak and that’s in the white oak family and it’s in about 27-28 btu’s and pricey. We don’t burn a lot of ponderosa even tho AZ. has the largest stand of ponderosa in the world.
5 Chris, The Walking Google on all things Firewood. A few summers ago, I had a guy who wanted a face cord of mixed hardwood for his wood burner. I told him I had some 22 - and 16-inch pieces of red oak and ash. I explained that I did not buck the wood. A tree service dropped the two trees and then bucked the pieces and left. The customer said no problem. He can fit the 22-inch pieces in his firebox on a diagonal. That was in the summer. Six months later, he called and asked me if I cut the wood to length. I told him we discussed the odd size when the order was written up. I reminded him that he said he would put the 22-inch pieces in diagonaly and that he stated he did not care if they were 16 or 22. He just wanted dry wood for winter. I asked if there was an issue. He loaded the firebox with the wood straight in, and he closed the glass door. All but one piece was 16 inches. A 22-inch piece went through the glass door. He said he had to order a new glass insert from Germany at a cost of $300.00 plus shipping. Now I ask how big the firebox is if the homeowner has a wood burner. I cut everything to 16 or 12 inches. My customers live in and around the largest city in the state.
I would agree location plays a HUGE role n price, here where i live n Southern Oregon(Klamath County) we buy lodge pole thats 16L and in rounds(split our own) @ $120 per cord but 40 or so mins away that same cord goes for round $200 per cord +/-, i sometimes get free wood(poplar, pondo, weeping willow)ill split it let dry n dead sun light all day than either sell that fall or the next fall, i post it with dimensions of pile n cut length n just let the customer choose wat they wanna do if delivery ur gonna pay more with milage
@@InTheWoodyard the people who live n the city(40 miles from me) who cut fire wood have to go 1-2 hrs round trip n they have to compensate for their gas
20-25% burns fine in a campfire as the fire gets a lot of air. Weeping willow will burn nicely 4wks from being a live tree when mixed with good quality oak. Found this out by experimenting in a campfire, but campfire only. As a seller, especially in the beginning, it pays to experiment so you can advise customers on how to burn certain wood if it isn't a common wood to burn in a campfire.
I live in southern Indiana and sell about 150 ricks a year. My customers that have outside boilers use between 20 and 30 ricks a year. The people with wood stoves only use 8 to 15. We have a lot of types of wood that are very common i never hear you talk about. Like walnut, beech, poplar, sassafras, sycamore, basswood, willow, persimmon. Do they not grow in your area or do you just not get much of them?
We have some walnut but most is not used for firewood. Lots of poplar, basswood and willow, none of those are as good for firewood or used much because we have hickory, oak, maple, ash, cherry, hackberry, birch, elm, ironwood and locust.
We have all those species but most people burn or sell whatever falls or dies on their property. I don't have a problem selling trash wood i just have to sell it cheaper.
My supplier is retiring so I am shopping for another one here in the North East. I am interested in price,species etc. I ask who the scaler is and what number his Scalers license is , mostly the answer is that no license is involved and an explanation about face cords,full cords ,bush cords and several more follow including sticks per cord and cords per truck load. Anyway,in my Scalers Handbook a cord is described as a neatly stacked pile of wood containing 128 cubic feet and is measured in cords and parts of cords like thirds, half and tenths
In Norway ve measure firewood in favn, 1 favn is split firewood in 60 cm length stacked 1m high and 4m long = 2,4kubickmeter. Mostly they are sold in 30cm length as firewood, stacked this is around 2,2kubikkmeter because stacking 30cm firewood is more effective. This fact is not well known but information is available online so disagreement between seller and buyer's is normally solved.
Dead right, Mr Chris. My wood is all 320mm long, plus or minus about 20mm or so. Principally, this is because my woodheater firebox is 370mm, front to back, and it has to fit in front to back...👍
For our boiler Gasification type, I prefer smaller because it packs tighter with less gaps. Pile burns better from bottom up. Just saying. Plus I am old big pieces to heavy.
Where I used to live I used wood for a heat source so I would typically get 6 full cord a year. The type of woods I used were mixed Ash, Maple. Beach, Birch and some Apple wood but that is a very hot wood and a grate killer. Where I live now I burn recreationally a couple of face cords a year and here in Western Canada the wood available is mostly softwood Pine and Spruce with a little Poplar that i'm not very fond of.
You forgot to add April and May to your list of months you could be heating. Hehe. Pricey cords of wood you mentioned. Around the 300 Canadian dollars here for a cord, split and delivered.
I didn't want to fire up my grill last night for supper...so I opened the door on my wood stove and cooked the brats on the coals! Does that mean I'm lazy? Nice video Chris.
Great video Chris. And honestly I'm getting more repeat customers because of lots of the little things I learned from you. Some now tell me I sound passionate I think is the word or just that I take pride in what I do. Where I live got lots of competition, one customer I had was driving around checking out different sellers, after he spoke with me he says I was gonna go check out a couple other sellers but I'll buy from you because you take pride in what you do. I thank you fir that. Keep up with the good videos Chris.
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Good day Chris once again you hit the nail on the head! In eastern Ontario where I’m at there is a lot Red Oak, Maple. Other species that’s prominent. White, yellow Birch. Elm, Hickory, White and Black Ash. To mention a few were very fortunate to have relatively a wide range of woods from soft to hard. Cheers my friend words well said. 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦
In the fire pit outside...pine, it burns easy with lots of flames smells great and sounds like...a fire! In the fireplace inside...cherry burns easy bright and smells great. In a wood stove oak, locust, hickory, ironwood...all great heat. In a wood boiler...wood... dry is better ...big is good.
In a month working 60 plus a week, and then doing wood neighbors were asking what are u doing with the wood and in that time I had a little over 11 cords or 31to 32 face cords, all dead standing oak at a property close to me like quarter mile, this season I’m praying I can start getting logging trucks soon! Great video as well!!!!
Many campers, aka pyromaniacs, many times want to heap the wood on. Those people will burn through a facecord in a holiday weekend. If they are burning for outdoor heat in a pit, they need to upgrade to an outdoor fireplace. That brings the heat out of the ground and allows it to radiate outward and can burn a lot less.
Hi Chris, thanks for the very informative video! I always learn something when I watch your videos. I am curious about how much you charge for a stacking fee on average when you deliver firewood. Also, I am planning on selling some firewood this next summer into the fall and winter and really appreciate all of your helpful tips about selling wood. Thanks and GNI
IF, and that is a BIG IF, I can back right up to the rack and take zero steps it is $20 a face cord, if I have to carry, cart, wheelbarrow it ...more depending on the distance.
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Great advice! Here in central Arizona, about 45 miles south of Flagstaff, the predominant firewood is Juniper, either Alligator Juniper or Shaggy Bark Juniper (around here they sometimes call Shaggy Bark Cedar Juniper). Both put out between 21 to 22 million BTUs. Sometimes you see oak for sale but usually juniper. You really have to do your homework and know what you're getting, 16" - 18" is the normal size but many small sellers sell by the truck load and sometimes that's a short 5 foot bed 4 door truck and they charge the same price as a 6 or 8 foot bed. Some of the big wood yards down around Phoenix make up their own measurements for cords. One big woodyard sells 108 cu.ft. as a full cord and their fractions of a cord, based on 108 cu.ft., are 1/2 or 1/4 not 1/3 or 2/3 even though they advertise the wood as being between 16"and 18". Their wood is also around 4 times as much as what I've seen it in other areas of the country. Contrary to popular belief, AZ is not all desert, there are lots of trees here so there's no reason to charge such high prices for short cords. Up north above and around Flagstaff, I think the predominant wood is Ponderosa pine with some piñon.
AWESOME VIDEO. #11 Tip the best of all. I use a moisture meter to check my wood and it makes a huge difference. Here in NE PA, we have a lot of wanna be firewood people and honestly they have no clue as to what a full cord of wood is and if it is seasoned.
I wish we had decent, honest firewood suppliers in the UK like yourself. Most are just rip off merchants selling under seasoned rubbish or overpriced imported stuff with little or no knowledge of the wood itself.
I'm in the UK they tend to be sold bulk bags I think they are 0.8m x 0.8m x 0.8m. They are selling for between 120 and 140 gbp so between 145 and 175 usd
great segment. solid advice and info on types of wood and what you can burn. i burn anything thats 16in and split......i have a little Jotul wood stove that takes 18 in pieces but 16 works best. i have a summit in the basement that will take 20 in wood. smaller splits work better than big chunks in the jotul. just stack them in the stove and they last pretty much all night. Eighteen inches seems to be the standard here. a lot of suppliers charge extra if you buy 16 in wood. Thats why i try and cut my own. i normally go through about 2.5 to 3 cord a year. never thought of making a "sandwich". i done both top method and bottom method.
Oregon coast we use doug fir for our first choice.but i burn sitka spruce,myrtle,hemlock,alder,white cedar,red cedar,shore pine,if its seasoned it goes in my stove.
I like #11 I take a moisture meter with me and show them the customer the moisture. I believe in a quality service. I don’t even come close to the wood you sell but I’m true full about it
i can get a semi load of wood ddeliverd for 85 dollars a cord im in northwest mn we mostly get aspen or tamarak the humidity hear is 90 percent in the winter
Chris - Assuming that a customer wants just hardwood, do you (or other sellers) ever charge different $$$ for different types of wood (oak, cherry,etc. ) ? Thnx…
Yes, I will be selling hickory for more now because it is hard to get in any quantity here. What ever is hard to get in most products cost more usually.
#11 is misleading… I maybe new to selling and such, but that comment would tell people to not buy from me. Yes, anything that will be sold is tested. I’m putting wood up now so when I want to sell it, the wood is properly seasoned.
Amazingly you just answer a few questions I had in mind A pine tree fell over night at my job place and I was afraid to take it because of you I am for next winter, I do burn a lot of wood to heat up my house! $250 - $ 300 dollars for a full cord here in Rhode Island ! Thank so much for the help!
Glad I could help! Just make sure it is dry and full seasoned as with any wood. Also make sure your flu is cleaned a time or two every year. And the pine will burn hot but fast also, it will not last as long as most hardwoods. Keep cuttin'!
Ha! I don't "hate" oak but so many wood snobs think it is THE best wood and there is no other. There are many kinds of wood that are great wood. The two things that I do not like about oak is the extra time it takes to dry and fact that sooooo many people want it, because they think it is the best.
We’re newbie’s to heating with wood, my spouse doesn’t see the need to cover the wood. It is neatly stacked in wood pallet corrals, mostly hickory, ash,(sometimes dead standing) silver maple, black locust, oak, 21” long and split. We don’t plan on selling it, and we may have 4 years worth now for NE Missouri, will it turn into pulp if we do not cover it? It’s pretty windy here, I don’t think he wants to deal with blowing tarps or tin, we actually have access to some billboard tarps but he is not convinced that it needs covered. Any suggestions?
When I / you first cut it I leave it uncovered for the first 3-6 months so the sun and wind can dry it as much as possible, when it is late fall I cover JUST the top to KEEP it dry to sell and to keep the snow off so it does not turn into a woodsicle.
It is rare to get wood into single digits for % of moisture. It usually will be in the low teens at its lowest in most regions. Plus it usually gets burned way before it is 7-9% I have only seen wood a few time that was 7-8% and it was in a shed for 7 years at that point.
Last year I burned some red oak firewood that was seasoned for 10 years during an artic blast. It was light almost like pine, burned hot and fast. A couple days ago we had a cold snap here in New England, I burned some hickory that's also been keeped dry for many years. The stove got really hot with that wood. Probably the hottest I've seen it. I don't have a moisture meter but now I'm going to get one.
@@InTheWoodyard yup, but born & raised at the beach, retired 20 years ago and now race sprint cars. Missed an apprentice tree trimmer by 30 days seniority at power company in 70's, so became a lineman instead. Loved tree work, especially rigging. Also have homes elsewhere so I can hunt & fish ... enjoy your videos, work safe, lift with your legs, you already know that. PS I burn wood anyway 👍👍
I just sold a neighbor 2 full cords of mostly black birch and beech for next year. They had recently bought 2 cords of kiln dried wood. I asked them to bring some of the kiln dried over so that I could test it with a moisture meter. I split some of their red oak and it was 20%. I then did the same with the wood that I was selling at half the price and it was drier than the kiln dried. My wood was split less than 2 months ago. Kiln dried does not equal really dry wood.
Watching your videos is going to catapult me into selling wood and not just my “recreational” wood splitting. QQQ, Do you live in a log home? I see chinked log’s behind you much like my home. Thanks for all your instruction.
I should charge for photos because people that are passing through will stop to take a few. Plus I have old live oaks on my property that add to it. Thanks again.
