The price of fire wood

[Trashy]

Good day..... My gf and me are thinking of selling fire wood, on the side soon. We have been watching Kijjijijiji, other sites, greenhouse's and gas stations, to see what would be a fair price?

So far the best we have come up with is.........$20.00 for a wheel barrow full, split or unsplit.
Not your moms gardening one, but more like a contractor size.
But what hit's the ground on the way to your vehicle, stay's lol.

Do ya'all think that that would be fair? I wood like to start running ads soon.

Thanks

 

[ferniesnow]

Loving the entrepreneurial spirit!

Investigated the concept many years ago and without a lot of mechanical equipment it is one hell of a lot of work for little return. It will get the two of you into great shape.........

I guess the first question is "where will you be able to get the trees??

 

[snopro]

$10 for a small bag in Kananaskis now Doug and Doug. Having a fire is more expensive than the rum you drink around it now. HaHa!

 

[Trashy]

Loving the entrepreneurial spirit!

Investigated the concept many years ago and without a lot of mechanical equipment it is one hell of a lot of work for little return. It will get the two of you into great shape.........

I guess the first question is "where will you be able to get the trees??

Thanks Doug, I have an arbourist(sp) just up the street and that is where I'm getting the wood from. I mostly have 3 types of Ash, lots of white poplar and some spruce.
I have lots of bucked up wood, just not split yet and has dried for a year now. I also have a 20 ton gas splitter, that helps me

$10 for a small bag in Kananaskis now Doug and Doug. Having a fire is more expensive than the rum you drink around it now. HaHa!

Thanks Ken, I know what they charge for a bag of wood is stoopid

 

[freeflorider]

Being a logger I never understood the reason to buy firewood. Comes so cheep to me I guess. After seeing what it sells for I'm thinking there is way more $$$ in bundled fire wood the any logger could make selling trees to a mill. Oh yah you bet it's a lots hard work for the return but you meet some great camping people and if you have fun doing it then good on yah trashy!
$20 a wheelbarrow full sounds good considering all you need to do is set it on fire....the cheap skate I am lol.

 

[arff]

Our friend owns this place.

It's on 3 or 4 acres.

He has a very fancy cutting and splitting machine

 

[Rbrduk]

When I was a kid, use to be $20 a pickup for the but ends that weren't 16" long to put in the good pile.

 

[Rbrduk]

I would say 20 a wheelbarrow is fair. If it doesn't sell, you can always lower it.

 

[tex78]

One thing is coming from Alberta and only burning wood for fires

To moving to b.c and heating with wood

Certain wood is for camp fires, certain is for heating

Don't know about ash, poplar is really only good for camp fires sort of cause it just sucks all around


Mabe if u mixed sone of each into 20 buck batches then ya that sounds good

 

[tex78]

If u seen my buddy's outside camp fires, he will burn a cord to two a nite


36 inch pipe fire ring lol

 

[doorfx]

Thanks Doug, I have an arbourist(sp) just up the street and that is where I'm getting the wood from.
Do you deal with Cody ?

 

[ferniesnow]

If you have that supply, that is the biggest part of the battle. Good for you.

$20/wheel barrow is a great price. You could even provide a small piece of 6 mil poly for them to cover the bottom of their trunk or the back carpet in the soccer van.

 

[skid]

If u seen my buddy's outside camp fires, he will burn a cord to two a nite


36 inch pipe fire ring lol[/QUOTE
i call bs on this one, I have a crusher cone for a fire pit and it 6' across and there is no way I could burn 2 cords in a night, and we've had some pretty big ragers....

 

[dogsmack]

We get him to special cut us tam by the cord for the two masonry heaters we run all winter. Great guy and zero complaints.

Our friend owns this place.

It's on 3 or 4 acres.

He has a very fancy cutting and splitting machine

 

[tex78]

If u seen my buddy's outside camp fires, he will burn a cord to two a nite


36 inch pipe fire ring lol[/QUOTE
i call bs on this one, I have a crusher cone for a fire pit and it 6' across and there is no way I could burn 2 cords in a night, and we've had some pretty big ragers....

It holds a 1/2 a cord per full fill

3 fills at least a day when we are out and the families are there tobogganing

 

[tex78]

Too add, he is also a piro junky lol


Ask joholio if u don't believe me

 

[Uturn]

As long as its dry, it's a fair price. Bought birch of a guy in Edmonton(XXL bags on Kijiji). The properly split wood was dry and burned like birch should. The off-split and non split smaller wood was still wet and didn't burn well at all.

Years ago camped with a friend that would burn over a cord per day. Cut standing dead fall in the morning, cooked over the fire and stoked it up after supper.

 

[Iron Horse Racing]

Lots of people have a different idea of how big a cord is.....4' x 4' x 8'....

Without stack sides you cant put a cord of wood in a 8' pick up box, don't get me started on these dickey 6' boxes...I swear the trunk in my 1961 Ford Galaxy could haul almost as much...

 

[lilduke]

Burnt 12 cubic yards of wood one night,, a few 5 gallon pails of oil, jerry cans of gas ext.
Couldn't get much closer than 50 feet away from that lil camp fire.

More wood just equals bigger fire I have always found.

 

[tex78]

Burnt 12 cubic yards of wood one night,, a few 5 gallon pails of oil, jerry cans of gas ext.
Couldn't get much closer than 50 feet away from that lil camp fire.

More wood just equals bigger fire I have always found.

And this is a winter time outside fire