Year Round Income From Your Firewood Business
Every home with a chimney and every (real) BAR-BE-QUES needs firewood. The homeowner or restaurateur seldom has the time or means of to go after and cut his own firewood. On the other hand, there are farms and lots covered with leaves and heavy brush whose owners don't have time or energy to clear. If you combine these two problems the solution to both may be a profitable business!
Cut firewood sells for $50 to $200 a cord these days (depending on the season and part of the country).
A cord is wood is 128 cubic feet (a stack 2 feet wide, eight feet long and eight feet high, or four feet wide, eight feet long and 4 feet high), or a good 3/4 ton pickup load.
A couple of people with a chain saw could fill their truck with poles (small logs), take them to the "yard" and saw them into firewood, then load, deliver and stack the wood in a few hours time.
With a larger truck, they could do two cords at a time: twice the profit with only about 25% more cost and effort. You can cut poles to insert in the pickup or truck bed to form a "rack" to hold the maximum load. Be sure to run a cable or heavy rope across the load at the top of your rack poles to make them secure (keep them from bending outward).
It would also be wise to measure your truck so you can show marks to indicate a half cord, full cord, etc. to save loading time and possibly, arguments.
An easy way to do this is to compute the area of the bed and divide that into 128.
For example, if your truck bed is 4 x 8 feet, or 32 square feet, divide that into 128 to get 4. This means when the wood fills the bed and is 4 feet high, it is one cord of firewood.
Prices for firewood vary with type (oak or elm), age (green or dry), whether or not it is split, the amount purchased, and if it is delivered and/or stacked by the seller.
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