Anyone paying for firewood this year? If so, how much?

[Beekissed]

Last year I paid $75 per standard pickup truck load of stacked, split and cured oak and other hard woods and they stacked it in my garage. This year I am using the same folks and they are charging $85 per load~thrown, which means they don't stack it on the bed of the truck, just throw it in~and they are charging a $10 fee to stack it in my garage also.

So, $95 for a smaller load~ and much poorer quality of wood, I might add~this year. They said they had to charge more because the gas prices but we are actually enjoying much lower gas prices at this time than we did this time last year, so that is just an excuse.

Anyone else getting ripped off on wood this year?

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

We cut our own, but going price up here is close to $200 per full cord.
Needless to say, we are cashing in that in a few days!
Dry, split and stacked though. No cheating!

 

[Beekissed]

Both loads brought today wouldn't equal a full cord, IME, and it cost me $190. Heavy, wet and not the quality they brought last year.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Both loads brought today wouldn't equal a full cord, IME, and it cost me $190. Heavy, wet and not the quality they brought last year.

Are you inspecting them before they are unloaded?
I would not accept or pay for wood that was green, wet and short on amount.

 

[Beekissed]

Wellllll....the first guy that delivered dumped off green, wet locust that wouldn't fit into my stove. He did this on a Sunday morning when he knew I wouldn't be there and expected me to pay $75 a load for it. I refused and told him to come and get it out of my garage because my regular wood guy couldn't deliver until he did. He didn't come in time, so I called a local scavenger group and they came and hauled off every scrap.

Now, my regular wood guy is getting just as bad. There aren't many who sell firewood around here because most folks own their own land or cut off a relative's land. The only people who seem to order wood are people like me with no woods of their own, elderly, city folks livin' in the country. All of these people are easy to dupe and will take about anything anyone brings, as they are at the mercy of the market.

I am calling another guy tomorrow that I have used previously, to see if he is still cutting. Let's hope he hasn't started ripping people off as well.

 

[JRmom]

We've paid $65 for a stacked truck load the last 2 years. Haven't ordered wood yet for this winter. If he goes up $10 I'll still be happy, the price of gas hasn't gone down any. The wood is all cut to fit in our wood stove and except for a partial load one time that was still a bit green (and he heard about it!), it's all well seasoned.

 

[Marianne]

It kind of depends on if you have had to cut your own wood, if you were cutting it to sell, how far you had to drive to get to the area, etc. All of a sudden, that $65 a pickup load isn't so expensive anymore.

Friends that have been long term wood cutters say that it costs them a minimum of $80 a cord to cut it themselves. They factor in all their expenses. That doesn't leave much profit for a really hard days work, then splitting, delivering, stacking on top of that? So I don't groan about anything that I have to pay as long as it's reasonable. Green wood will be dry next year.

We cut a lot of our own wood, but we're still two cords short for the winter. We have a wood stove and a wood furnace, so any size will fit one of them - I'm not picky. As long as I can get it in one of them, it's good.

Around here, $120 a cord for hot burning wood is not uncommon. Some charge more and I don't blame them.

 

[FarmerChick]

LOL this makes me think about the big bad corporation thread running.....now the little local guy is screwing you. So if the big bad corps screw us, and our local neighborhood wood delivery people screw us...wow, do we have a chance....just throwing it out there LOL LOL

just throw that money to the best person in the lot and hope you win

 

[aggieterpkatie]

Seasoned hardwood is easily $150 a cord here. Bee, have you looked into slab wood? If there are any sawmills around you they may have some cheaper, and it's usually always hardwood. We burned slabwood for YEARS with no problems.

 

[THEFAN]

We are about 150-175 per cord pending on the type of wood. You can get tree lenght for a good deal too. Cut and split it yourself. 85 a cord. Most people here that are native will do that.