I got myself a Fiskar X27 thanks to your recommendation. I can’t believe how light it feels. I did a quick chop on a couple of pieces of red oak, split and felt smooth while cutting. Will be giving it a good test soon. Thanks
Hot Springs, Ar population is a little over 38,000. Trees are everywhere. Mostly Oak and many other hardwoods. Tree serv. guys bring me more wood than I can keep up with. I get $200 per face cord delivered. I get $10 for bundles. This area is mostly retirement people. I am also located within 5 miles of 2 very large campgrounds. 80 percent of people here have firepits. I have been selling wood all Summer. Last year I ran out of wood by Oct. This year is different because of the purchase of an Eastonmade Axis last year. I can turn out a tremendous of wood now. I will easily get my money back and much more this year. It's not easy work but approaching 70 I am probly in better shape than when I was fifty so there's that. I have saved untold hrs. of labor due to the tried and true tips from Chris. Thanks Chris.
I grew up cutting firewood on Tejon Ranch in California, delivered to the Los Angeles area a semi load five days a week (70) cords of Oak, in the 80's sold for $250 a cord. Been out of the area since the 90's so not sure of price now. Just Googled average price for Oak in L.A. is $570 a cord. Great video!
Really loved this discussion, Chris! You are so right that there are many variables regarding what to charge. I've experimented with a number of things over the years. I landed on self serve bundle sales. When I was doing deliveries, I began to consider what my time was worth on an hourly basis if I could spend that time doing my other job versus drive time plus fuel for wood delivery. That made it no-brainer for me, but I realize everyone's situation is different.👍
I live in one of the biggest counties in Pennsylvania by land area, but our population is one of the lowest per square mile- 57,000ish. Because of a large timber industry and agricultural history Firewood is around $120 a full cord. Delivery is pretty much unheard of. Prices are going up slowly because kids of farmers are not becoming farmers.
@@stevenbrown5210 it's what the market is locally, there is literally wood everywhere to be had- usually free to little cost because of the timber industry. Added to that farmers, loggers, and related workers don't pay someone else to do what they can do themselves
That price is JUST the cost of raw unprocessed logs...so it is all free labor and equipment use for the buyers...at that price I would be a buyer NOT a seller!
I tried doing firewood for a little while when I was out of work with a (good) chainsaw, maul, and truck. I am competing with those who have a firewood processor for $300 per cord, but locals trust them and dont know me so I have to make my price lower to $275 if I want to sell any wood. In the end I could only make $15-$20 per hour profit after gas and what not, not including truck maintenence but supply and demand is really sporadic, not high supply like your area. But I could make $27 per hour consistently in a construction job which is much easier on the body.
Very true, I like burning wood in my wood stove and it probably is my favorite "chore" but I live in the "middle of nowhere" with trees everywhere. It would be difficult to turn a profit selling firewood here so I will stick to my 'low tech" set up although I envy your efficiency.
Watching at 9pm after a long firewood day. Unloaded pine at 6:30am that i split into My truck yesterday. Was splitting and cutting and stacking in the rain yesterday . Delivered apple over 1 hr away. Cut and split firewood the rest of the day 8 hrs til dark like every good weather day. Hoping for a long freezing cold winter with a small amount of snow. Never had the problem of having firewood thats seasoned 12-20 months old. So much carryover from 2023. Thought id have enough for a new dumptrailer already but with the worst sales ever in 2024 of the past 5 yrs that ain't gonna happen before fall. Saw that gas was nearly the same price as diesel. Id love for it to go back to under $2/gallon like it did under trump. Gas prices and inflation and repairs are killing any possible profit. Everyone has less $ in this ridiculous inflationary economy. Hoping this winter is really cold otherwise im gonna be screwed with having literally tons of firewood left over again instead of being sold and burned. Cant even sell any slabwood either and theres 50 cords of it piled up and we make more everyday
Yup, poor economy, inflation, looming recession, election, warm short winter last year... good thing is wood is money in the bank..the cold will come back and if people are smart and vote correctly things will get better!
Central California in the mountains, Sonora, California, lots of trees, $350 for a full cord of oak delivered. Carson City Nevada, not many trees very close, $550 for a full cord of Oak delivered.
All good points! I still have people comment on my channel on how small we split it! People out west mostly. I tell them we sell to 95% recreational that want small splits. Plus hardwoods in the Midwest split as big as they split their Doug fir etc… would take 5 years to dry😂 Like you said every market is different and the uses for it are different! Great discussion Sir Chriseth👍🏻👍🏻GNI
@@toddsoutsideagain makes me wonder how long it takes the 36in long boiler wood to dry. It baffles me as to why people want wood that long and heavy to handle.
I hate oak since it doesn’t give me the huge flames in my pit. Give me ash any day. Problem is I get my wood free from a buddy that has too much oak laying around so I love free.
I tell everyone it is better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it. Now this does not just apply to wood. For example. I was hit with Hurricane Irma. That was bad I lost all my frozen and refrigerator food. I thought I was going to die with out my A/C. Did not have running water because I am on a well. I live in a 2 bedroom 2 bath and I could easily do good with 3 to 5000 watt Gen but I did the research on all the Gens and for a few dollars more I could buy a 10,000 watt gen. Would I need that much ? No never but its there if I do and if it is running less it will work smoother. Means less stress on the Gen. I have about 2 years of food stocked up so I could if I had to live on the food I have in my house with out ever having to go to the store for at least 2 years. Again better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it. I have not one but two fire pits one I used for cooking and making coffee while I was dealing with Hurricane Irma. The other pit I use to burn just to hang around and have a few drinks . The best food ever cooked was food cooked on an open fire.
Great video Chris! I live in a small town in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 can drive 30 minutes to get to bigger cities and I charge $75 to deliver anything from a facecord or a full cord of wood. I buy wood from a local tree company but it’s worth it as I don’t have a lot of space for trucks to come. In a little over 2 years I made enough money to buy a ultra and I love it! People always post on marketplace for free wood in my area too and if I can go get it I do. I sell camp wood like pine $120 per facecord or $30 a wheelbarrow full I think the best option for customers instead of buying bags for $10-20 at gas stations. Mix hardwood $160 facecord I really don’t have space to separate all types.
We charge $330/cord CDN for pine. Up from $280 last year. Our price is based on how much we pay for log trucks. A "12 cord" truck went up almost $450 this year. We are in a forest and it's been tough to sell this year. Most of our delivery are near a small city an hour away. I've seen firewood business have pine priced at $500 in the closed major city.
Chris your true with your words on sale firewood 🪵. I sale a full cord for $135 because I live in county area , I get hardwood firewood 🪵 because it a waste wood for $35 for 10 cords 🪵 in the logging business here . I sale it just to pay 💰 for semi tires 🛞 and help out with diesel. Last yr. and yr before I put out 15000 to 16000 full cords out . Boiler guy take a full semi load and sometimes 2 full load run from 19.75 to 23.89 full load . 😊 remember you buy the same firewood 🪵 from your logger truck for the same price Chris . Bundles I see travel threw the 709 run $7.99 to $11.99 Chris do your math that a high price for a full cord Chris. 😊
In Maine, wood is more used as primary heating in many homes. Dry cords of hardwood can go for $400+ a cord especially if its less common species like white oak, hickory or locust.
Great explanation this morning Chris and so very true ( location location location ) it’s the world we live in. Have a wonderful day and keep on cutting
Question, please Sir: my local electric company cut down two of my oak trees that were dead and impeding the electrical lines. They left 30 large rounds. I don’t have a wood splitter. Does it damage a chainsaw to lay the large rounds on their side and cut them in half? At that point I could use my splitting maul. I know I could rent a splitter, but they are very expensive here in California. Any advice you have with me we appreciate it. Thank you for your time Sir.
Yes, you can "rip" them if your saw is powerful enough and your bar is long enough also. I have videos showing how to rip rounds down into quarters on my channel...good luck!
Great video. Thanks again. I never hear you say Walnut. I assume you are too far north compared to where we are in the 'Transition Zone'. Awesome fire pit wood. Dries very well, crackles and sparks nice, smells nice, inch thick bark that lights and burns great. That's a shame if it doesn't grow up there.
There's people in business in every service industry who refuse to make a profit that keeps profit down for everyone. The guys that are not subsidized by the welfare system have to keep prices lower.
The price for me to buy loads of logs has doubled in the last 4 or so years while the price of firewood has stayed exactly the same. Hard to up prices when there are so many people selling in the area and they all charge about the same within $15-20. I would like to ask $25 more than I am charging now but if I did that be hard to sell when they can just buy it from anybody else for $25 less lol.
All the newer homes built in the last 25 years in our city do not have a wood burning fireplace all gas or electricity lots of wood available but 90% is soft wood 😊
Precious information Chris! Too many valid points. Loved the baby trailer, it would work for me but it loads almost 2300 kg, do you know if a normal car can pull that weight?
I found out that you have to accept credit cards. Just like Vegas with poker chips they don’t feel it.. You charge them a convenience fee and they don’t care. With this economy you gotta… Don’t get me wrong I still prefer Cash 💰 Cheers!
firewood can be very expensive here if you buy off the mobs advertising on social media, but if you look around you can get good product at half the price.
I am 100 a face cord delivered for oak. I am also one of the most expensive in my area. The city i live in has a huge state park for camping, and lots of people sell wood. Most people around here can heat their house with gas for the sams price as wood. Why mess with wood if it doesn't save money and have less work?
To enjoy the wood heat and the process...exercise, out of doors, control of energy supply, sun shine, accomplish some thing that you can see every time out there...would be my answer.
@@InTheWoodyard yes. We have delivered over four hundred full cords already. Most people here buy wood for heat, not entertainment. We will probably deliver another four or five hundred cords before the snow flies.
No matter what you try to sell, you will be constrained by what the competition offers. You probably need to start with a price competitive with theirs and go up or down from there once you see how it goes. You can't remain in business if you can't make it work at that price.
Yup, profit is necessary to stay and grow..... to low of prices hurt EVERYONE including the consumer... no profit = no growth and no sustainability or longevity and eventually no or limited supply for the consumer.
Love the channel Chris, have been watching for years, probably 90% of the vids. Constructive criticism, not being a dick, but it's starting to get very repetitive with the whole advice thing, I know newbies ask the same stuff all the time, but is it time to drop the 1 vid a day and focus on better content across fewer vids?
I make videos for the audience. If I here a lot of the same questions ...that is an indicator of what they want. Yes, I could go to one or two videos a week if I wanted and some day I will. The videos I make are often based on internet searches for information which is content that will be "evergreen" ...stuff that will get views and make money long after I am worm food. If I always did what individuals wanted most of my content would be one of three things....cutting, splitting or processing wood and nothing else...for me and my sanity and fun variety is the way I keep going each day.
In a larger population area you will have people with the means, reason and want to pay for wood and services. The higher the population in an area the more of them there are...and fewer resources that make the prices higher.
Just doing quick search. . Your county is listed as 300 people per square mile, 645 total area and 190,000 people. . My county a little bigger 688 square miles and 75 people per square mile, 53,000 people. We also have the 1# and 2# lowest priced power. And the 1# highest priced power in the state. . Needless to say that part of the county, has way above average amount of trees, and has way above average wood heat. But very little sales, as most do there own wood. . And for reference, your northern brother county is 11.2 people per square mile. LOL just a bit lower..
Yes BUT...I am in the far south west corner of the county and the counties around us have good populations also that are pretty close to us...so it is actually much more than that as far as the population market to sell to.
Some kinds of wood will "over dry" and burn up very fast, but it will burn, even after many years. The better wood kinds will last for a very very long time and be fine....oak, beach, elm, locust, ossage orange and some others will last for decades....IF it is kept dry. It is an organic material so eventually it all will degrade/decompose but it will last longer than most think.
Chris the money Benjamin at in the CORN 🌽 field , remember CORN 🌽 make whiskey 🥃. In the 709 26 oz whiskey 🥃 run 🏃♂️ you $33 see your buddy Adam with Crown Royal with a T shirt 👕 have to take out a new mortgage on your house 🏠 up 🔝 here in 709 for a quart bottle 26 oz close to $50 bone . 😢😢
I appreciate the talk about prices. To me, service means a Lot!!! I split my wood like you, one handers!! I have a couple of customers that want big wood for a bonfire. Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Our market is changing in middle TN, lots of new folks moving in and changing from a "mostly rural" area, to lots of subdivisions/neighborhoods. I charge: Delivered only - $50 "truck stack" (10 cu ft), $100 "truck load" (3/4 rick), $10 bag of kindling. There are still plenty of people that will sell ricks for $50 picked up around our area, but I'm not competing with them.
Your market is definitely not my market! I'm at 700/ cord minimum up to 900+... but my average delivery is over 100 mile round trip. I make sure to make 40+/hr, otherwise I would go get a union job and make 35+/hr and get full benefits and pension.
I got myself a Fiskar X27 thanks to your recommendation. I can’t believe how light it feels. I did a quick chop on a couple of pieces of red oak, split and felt smooth while cutting. Will be giving it a good test soon. Thanks
Great to hear!
Hot Springs, Ar population is a little over 38,000.
Trees are everywhere.
Mostly Oak and many other hardwoods.
Tree serv. guys bring me more wood than I can keep up with.
I get $200 per face cord delivered. I get $10 for bundles.
This area is mostly retirement people.
I am also located within 5 miles of 2 very large campgrounds. 80 percent of people here have firepits.
I have been selling wood all Summer.
Last year I ran out of wood by Oct.
This year is different because of the purchase of an Eastonmade Axis last year. I can turn out a tremendous of wood now. I will easily get my money back and much more this year.
It's not easy work but approaching 70 I am probly in better shape than when I was fifty so there's that.
I have saved untold hrs. of labor due to the tried and true tips from Chris.
Thanks Chris.
That is awesome Grant! Keep cuttin'!
I grew up cutting firewood on Tejon Ranch in California, delivered to the Los Angeles area a semi load five days a week (70) cords of Oak, in the 80's sold for $250 a cord. Been out of the area since the 90's so not sure of price now. Just Googled average price for Oak in L.A. is $570 a cord. Great video!
Yup, it is a little bit more now!
@@InTheWoodyard Who would have ever thunk it!
Chris didn’t get any notification today, CZcams stuffed up!
Thought you forgot us, but after doing a search it came up, yes all notifications on.
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I have no idea what they are doing at youtube??? Many others has said the same thing. My guess is that it is a computer/algorithm thingy???
Really loved this discussion, Chris!
You are so right that there are many variables regarding what to charge. I've experimented with a number of things over the years. I landed on self serve bundle sales. When I was doing deliveries, I began to consider what my time was worth on an hourly basis if I could spend that time doing my other job versus drive time plus fuel for wood delivery. That made it no-brainer for me, but I realize everyone's situation is different.👍
Yup, do what works for you!
I live in one of the biggest counties in Pennsylvania by land area, but our population is one of the lowest per square mile- 57,000ish. Because of a large timber industry and agricultural history Firewood is around $120 a full cord. Delivery is pretty much unheard of. Prices are going up slowly because kids of farmers are not becoming farmers.
$120 a cord isn't worth your time. It should be triple that price
@@stevenbrown5210 it's what the market is locally, there is literally wood everywhere to be had- usually free to little cost because of the timber industry. Added to that farmers, loggers, and related workers don't pay someone else to do what they can do themselves
That price is JUST the cost of raw unprocessed logs...so it is all free labor and equipment use for the buyers...at that price I would be a buyer NOT a seller!
YUP!!!
Yup, an over supply of resources!
I tried doing firewood for a little while when I was out of work with a (good) chainsaw, maul, and truck. I am competing with those who have a firewood processor for $300 per cord, but locals trust them and dont know me so I have to make my price lower to $275 if I want to sell any wood. In the end I could only make $15-$20 per hour profit after gas and what not, not including truck maintenence but supply and demand is really sporadic, not high supply like your area. But I could make $27 per hour consistently in a construction job which is much easier on the body.
Yup, firewood is work...it takes time to build up good customers...trust has to be earned.
My favorite way to sell wood--- conveyor into customers pickup truck. 50-150 $$$ Single mom wood heat 45.00. Rich dude drinking wood 150.00
Okay!
Very true, I like burning wood in my wood stove and it probably is my favorite "chore" but I live in the "middle of nowhere" with trees everywhere. It would be difficult to turn a profit selling firewood here so I will stick to my 'low tech" set up although I envy your efficiency.
Yup, lots of trees and no people makes it hard to sell!
Great video Chris, always on point. So you are photographer , firewood guy and economist, thanks for the video
Thanks for the kind words and watching!
Nice job Chris. I don’t sell firewood but do trade for whiskey. Because of inflation the amount of wood per bottle has increased. GNI
Ha! That is a good system you have!!
This was a great economics lesson this morning. Thanks for the great content, as always.
Glad you enjoyed it other one!
Watching at 9pm after a long firewood day. Unloaded pine at 6:30am that i split into My truck yesterday. Was splitting and cutting and stacking in the rain yesterday . Delivered apple over 1 hr away. Cut and split firewood the rest of the day 8 hrs til dark like every good weather day. Hoping for a long freezing cold winter with a small amount of snow. Never had the problem of having firewood thats seasoned 12-20 months old. So much carryover from 2023. Thought id have enough for a new dumptrailer already but with the worst sales ever in 2024 of the past 5 yrs that ain't gonna happen before fall. Saw that gas was nearly the same price as diesel. Id love for it to go back to under $2/gallon like it did under trump. Gas prices and inflation and repairs are killing any possible profit. Everyone has less $ in this ridiculous inflationary economy. Hoping this winter is really cold otherwise im gonna be screwed with having literally tons of firewood left over again instead of being sold and burned. Cant even sell any slabwood either and theres 50 cords of it piled up and we make more everyday
Yup, poor economy, inflation, looming recession, election, warm short winter last year... good thing is wood is money in the bank..the cold will come back and if people are smart and vote correctly things will get better!
Good Morning All! Good Morning to the Brother in Law Ron!
Hello Jean!
Central California in the mountains, Sonora, California, lots of trees, $350 for a full cord of oak delivered. Carson City Nevada, not many trees very close, $550 for a full cord of Oak delivered.
Yup, supply and demand!
All good points! I still have people comment on my channel on how small we split it! People out west mostly. I tell them we sell to 95% recreational that want small splits. Plus hardwoods in the Midwest split as big as they split their Doug fir etc… would take 5 years to dry😂 Like you said every market is different and the uses for it are different! Great discussion Sir Chriseth👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Thanks for the input Sir Toddeth!
@@toddsoutsideagain makes me wonder how long it takes the 36in long boiler wood to dry. It baffles me as to why people want wood that long and heavy to handle.
G’morning Chris. I charge $150 per face. I do the doggy paddle while unloading the truck. Thanks Fer da speaking of truth.
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Good morning! Nice, I am going to move next door to you so I can charge more!!
🤘great advice Thanks again for sharing your experience
Thanks!
I hate oak since it doesn’t give me the huge flames in my pit. Give me ash any day. Problem is I get my wood free from a buddy that has too much oak laying around so I love free.
Yup, oak is good wood but there is a lot of other kinds too!
I only do delivery as well. My least favorite question is "how much if i pick it up?" Get that one all the time. Great video as always!
Yup, I get it once in a while...usually not a customer I want.
I tell everyone it is better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it. Now this does not just apply to wood. For example. I was hit with Hurricane Irma. That was bad I lost all my frozen and refrigerator food. I thought I was going to die with out my A/C. Did not have running water because I am on a well. I live in a 2 bedroom 2 bath and I could easily do good with 3 to 5000 watt Gen but I did the research on all the Gens and for a few dollars more I could buy a 10,000 watt gen. Would I need that much ? No never but its there if I do and if it is running less it will work smoother. Means less stress on the Gen. I have about 2 years of food stocked up so I could if I had to live on the food I have in my house with out ever having to go to the store for at least 2 years. Again better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it. I have not one but two fire pits one I used for cooking and making coffee while I was dealing with Hurricane Irma. The other pit I use to burn just to hang around and have a few drinks . The best food ever cooked was food cooked on an open fire.
I like your plan....smart!
Great video and explanation Chris. Very insightful and helpful to a lot of people. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Great video Chris!
I live in a small town in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 can drive 30 minutes to get to bigger cities and I charge $75 to deliver anything from a facecord or a full cord of wood.
I buy wood from a local tree company but it’s worth it as I don’t have a lot of space for trucks to come. In a little over 2 years I made enough money to buy a ultra and I love it!
People always post on marketplace for free wood in my area too and if I can go get it I do.
I sell camp wood like pine $120 per facecord or $30 a wheelbarrow full I think the best option for customers instead of buying bags for $10-20 at gas stations.
Mix hardwood $160 facecord I really don’t have space to separate all types.
That is awesome! Keep cuttin'!
@@InTheWoodyard yes 🙌 forsure
We charge $330/cord CDN for pine. Up from $280 last year. Our price is based on how much we pay for log trucks. A "12 cord" truck went up almost $450 this year.
We are in a forest and it's been tough to sell this year. Most of our delivery are near a small city an hour away. I've seen firewood business have pine priced at $500 in the closed major city.
Yes, prices to get everything including logs has gone up and people are spending less because the HAVE LESS TO SPEND! This has happened everywhere.
Chris your true with your words on sale firewood 🪵. I sale a full cord for $135 because I live in county area , I get hardwood firewood 🪵 because it a waste wood for $35 for 10 cords 🪵 in the logging business here . I sale it just to pay 💰 for semi tires 🛞 and help out with diesel. Last yr. and yr before I put out 15000 to 16000 full cords out . Boiler guy take a full semi load and sometimes 2 full load run from 19.75 to 23.89 full load . 😊 remember you buy the same firewood 🪵 from your logger truck for the same price Chris . Bundles I see travel threw the 709 run $7.99 to $11.99 Chris do your math that a high price for a full cord Chris. 😊
Yup, the price is the price in my area...others may differ.
As usual, great information Chris! GNI
Thanks again!
I've thought about trying to sell a couple faces cords next year depending on home much more I get cut this year and next.
You will be surprised, you will probably sell all you can produce.
Oh, this was a useful and entertaining video. 2 for 1 video, what a deal. Thank you. Good night.
Glad you enjoyed it Paul!
In Maine, wood is more used as primary heating in many homes. Dry cords of hardwood can go for $400+ a cord especially if its less common species like white oak, hickory or locust.
Thanks for the info Adam!!
Great explanation this morning Chris and so very true ( location location location ) it’s the world we live in. Have a wonderful day and keep on cutting
Thanks, you too!
Question, please Sir: my local electric company cut down two of my oak trees that were dead and impeding the electrical lines. They left 30 large rounds. I don’t have a wood splitter. Does it damage a chainsaw to lay the large rounds on their side and cut them in half? At that point I could use my splitting maul. I know I could rent a splitter, but they are very expensive here in California. Any advice you have with me we appreciate it. Thank you for your time Sir.
Yes, you can "rip" them if your saw is powerful enough and your bar is long enough also. I have videos showing how to rip rounds down into quarters on my channel...good luck!
I’m a wood expert thru schooling at the Carlson academy of wood.
Ha! Thanks Harold!
Great video. Thanks again. I never hear you say Walnut. I assume you are too far north compared to where we are in the 'Transition Zone'. Awesome fire pit wood. Dries very well, crackles and sparks nice, smells nice, inch thick bark that lights and burns great. That's a shame if it doesn't grow up there.
We do have some but it is not common and if there are walnut trees they are not cut for firewood but for lumber.
It doesn't seem like the price of firewood is keeping up with inflation it should be higher
YES! It should be 25-35% more....EVERYWHERE!
There's people in business in every service industry who refuse to make a profit that keeps profit down for everyone.
The guys that are not subsidized by the welfare system have to keep prices lower.
The price for me to buy loads of logs has doubled in the last 4 or so years while the price of firewood has stayed exactly the same. Hard to up prices when there are so many people selling in the area and they all charge about the same within $15-20. I would like to ask $25 more than I am charging now but if I did that be hard to sell when they can just buy it from anybody else for $25 less lol.
All the newer homes built in the last 25 years in our city do not have a wood burning fireplace all gas or electricity lots of wood available but 90% is soft wood 😊
I would bet that some are wood burning but yes most are "fake flame places" not fireplaces.
Westchester county in NY, up from NYC. $800 to$1000 for cord. Customers like Martha Stewart are good to have.
Wow! Very nice!!! I am moving there! No, I decided not to.....TOO many people there!
Couldn’t agree more! My prices are the same👍👍
So either we are both smart or both not! Thanks Jeremiah!
Great video Chris
Thanks 👍
Good morning dear Chris.
Hello Jessica!! Thanks for coming back!
Ken's place sounds wonderful!
Yup, he lives in a great out door area!
Precious information Chris! Too many valid points.
Loved the baby trailer, it would work for me but it loads almost 2300 kg, do you know if a normal car can pull that weight?
You would need to check your cars max tow capacity.
I found out that you have to accept credit cards. Just like Vegas with poker chips they don’t feel it.. You charge them a convenience fee and they don’t care. With this economy you gotta…
Don’t get me wrong I still prefer Cash 💰
Cheers!
Good call!
Chris,another excellent video keep them coming 👍😮😊❤
Thanks, will do!
Great educational episode. Thanks 👍👍👍
Thanks for watching!
firewood can be very expensive here if you buy off the mobs advertising on social media, but if you look around you can get good product at half the price.
Yup, there is always someone giving their labor away for almost free....they never last and usually have poor quality and service.
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Good video.
You have a good product
Good service
Great value
All the best.
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Another great video today with good information. 😉👍
Glad you enjoyed it Daniel!
I am 100 a face cord delivered for oak. I am also one of the most expensive in my area. The city i live in has a huge state park for camping, and lots of people sell wood. Most people around here can heat their house with gas for the sams price as wood. Why mess with wood if it doesn't save money and have less work?
To enjoy the wood heat and the process...exercise, out of doors, control of energy supply, sun shine, accomplish some thing that you can see every time out there...would be my answer.
Central Illinois get 65 to 75 face cord
That is pretty cheap!
In Northern New Brunswick, we charge $310 per full cord delivered. Mostly hard maple and yellow birch. GNI
That is good, I assume you have a good/big supply of trees/logs??
@@InTheWoodyard yes. We have delivered over four hundred full cords already. Most people here buy wood for heat, not entertainment. We will probably deliver another four or five hundred cords before the snow flies.
Good morning Chris!!😀😀
Great chat my friend!!👍👍
Take care!! TTYL
Logger Al
Hello Al! Thanks!!!
No matter what you try to sell, you will be constrained by what the competition offers. You probably need to start with a price competitive with theirs and go up or down from there once you see how it goes. You can't remain in business if you can't make it work at that price.
Yup, profit is necessary to stay and grow..... to low of prices hurt EVERYONE including the consumer... no profit = no growth and no sustainability or longevity and eventually no or limited supply for the consumer.
Love the channel Chris, have been watching for years, probably 90% of the vids. Constructive criticism, not being a dick, but it's starting to get very repetitive with the whole advice thing, I know newbies ask the same stuff all the time, but is it time to drop the 1 vid a day and focus on better content across fewer vids?
I make videos for the audience. If I here a lot of the same questions ...that is an indicator of what they want. Yes, I could go to one or two videos a week if I wanted and some day I will. The videos I make are often based on internet searches for information which is content that will be "evergreen" ...stuff that will get views and make money long after I am worm food. If I always did what individuals wanted most of my content would be one of three things....cutting, splitting or processing wood and nothing else...for me and my sanity and fun variety is the way I keep going each day.
I’m charging $120 🇨🇦 for pick up facecord in the middle of big city I started out at $80. I couldn’t do it anymore
Nice...good for you! Keep cuttin'!
Very interesting info thanks
Thanks for the watching!
My neighbor said my wood is free because I own the forest,🤦🏽♂️no idea how much it costs for “free “wood!
Yup, time, labor, tools, machinery, sweat, blood, tears, pain.....
I get free wood being a tree service owner. Still costly, lotta work
Thanks for all the helpful knowledge as always 👌😎
You bet!
But chris your market is my market lolol! I see that same guy by you and ive always wondered if that wood ever moved
Yup...I have never seen any wood sell....???
Chris you forget rule # 3.Do you live in a area with people willing to pay and can pay😊
In a larger population area you will have people with the means, reason and want to pay for wood and services. The higher the population in an area the more of them there are...and fewer resources that make the prices higher.
Just doing quick search.
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Your county is listed as 300 people per square mile, 645 total area and 190,000 people.
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My county a little bigger 688 square miles and 75 people per square mile, 53,000 people.
We also have the 1# and 2# lowest priced power. And the 1# highest priced power in the state.
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Needless to say that part of the county, has way above average amount of trees, and has way above average wood heat.
But very little sales, as most do there own wood.
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And for reference, your northern brother county is 11.2 people per square mile.
LOL just a bit lower..
Yes BUT...I am in the far south west corner of the county and the counties around us have good populations also that are pretty close to us...so it is actually much more than that as far as the population market to sell to.
@@InTheWoodyard makes sense.
so much oak here in the ozarks ive seen plenty of people only getting $50 for a rik
Yup, that is basically about the cost to produce it.
Smaller wood packs better in a house wood burner
Yup....all fireboxes of any size will fit more wood volume/weight with smaller pieces. It fills the voids better.
We have guys in my area that sells a 8 foot pick up truck load for $50 and free delivery within 50 miles. Hard to compete. They can’t be making money.
WOW! They are loosing their butts!
If I'm in a desert with a bunch of people and a glass of water and pockets full of money. Money is worthless.
EXACTLY!
I hear the humidity is high in many places.
You left a piece of wood behind on the floor 😊
Our heat and humidity just left yesterday, VERY nice here now!
If you store firewood properly can it get too "dry" if you store it 3+ years. I am ahead on firewood and may have more than 3 years cut and bucked.
Some kinds of wood will "over dry" and burn up very fast, but it will burn, even after many years. The better wood kinds will last for a very very long time and be fine....oak, beach, elm, locust, ossage orange and some others will last for decades....IF it is kept dry. It is an organic material so eventually it all will degrade/decompose but it will last longer than most think.
One firewood client of mine doesn't care what I give him for boiler wood. He'll burn anything, including pine, willow, and cottonwood.
THAT is a good customer!
Firewood has been sold way too cheap for the effort it takes to produce a quality product. Jmo
Yes! Lets form a firewood union!!!!
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Good morning all!
Hello!
Hi ya Chris. 😊
So what would you charge to deliver to Pa. Erie area? Allagainiey area
I would do it if someone would be willing to pay but it would be quite a lot! About $2000 ish! Plus the cost of the wood.
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Yup, drinking good stuff is not free!
I sell my wood for 300 a cord. Delivered within half hour that in the high side here. I only got 7 cord so to sell. It will sell or I burn it myself.
Sounds good...maybe get to cutting more just in case!!!!
I appreciate the talk about prices. To me, service means a Lot!!! I split my wood like you, one handers!! I have a couple of customers that want big wood for a bonfire. Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
That is awesome! So do you make an amount of wood for the big wood people each year too??
@@InTheWoodyard yes sir and I've got a couple more who have put in a request this year. They only want 1/3 cord. But, it's building
Hi Chris have a good day ( Ty Ron Allo Jean my Brother Law have a good Day
Thanks!!
Our market is changing in middle TN, lots of new folks moving in and changing from a "mostly rural" area, to lots of subdivisions/neighborhoods. I charge:
Delivered only - $50 "truck stack" (10 cu ft), $100 "truck load" (3/4 rick), $10 bag of kindling.
There are still plenty of people that will sell ricks for $50 picked up around our area, but I'm not competing with them.
Yup, you are doing it right...service!
Your market is definitely not my market! I'm at 700/ cord minimum up to 900+... but my average delivery is over 100 mile round trip.
I make sure to make 40+/hr, otherwise I would go get a union job and make 35+/hr and get full benefits and pension.
That is awesome, I might have to move next door to you so I can charge/make more!!! Also, I like your new name Mr. Snob!!! Ha!
@@InTheWoodyard I'll make room for you 😉
So I guess I'm not the only one who doesn't see his wood moving.
? He just sold 33 face cord in the last week.
@@stannelson2582 the neighbor he was talking about.
Yup, I have never seen anyone get any and the same stuff is always there????
Bert has a neighbor a block away that sells wood that I was referring to that never sells any.
yup
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Yeah the economy is terrible
I think a lot of people are choosing to eat verses spending money on MANY other things.
Good Morning Woodhounds!!(-:.....
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Good night Irene 🔥🪵
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Chris I didn’t get the notification today others said the same. Notification was on. Good video as always. I have 23 acres of free wood 🪵
I am told that youtube has been doing some strange things lately....I have no idea what or why???
@@InTheWoodyard sure it’s not for our benefit
Great video and explanation Chris. Very insightful and helpful to a lot of people. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
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