log/firewood prices..Way back when

[timberlinetree]

Just wondering what log/fire wood prices were when you started. Think about 15 or so years ago we sold cut/split and delivered cord wood for 100 a cord and 110 a cord was a big jump. Pallet was around 100 per thousand from what I rember. ???

[saltydog]

When i started i got $35 a rick 4x8x16" delivered.$35 a cord roadside for pulpwood didnt matter what hardwood ,spruce,aspen all payed about the same.Cant remember log prices.

[DaveP]

In the 1950s I got $18.00 a face cord delivered

[Firewoodjoe]

2000 or so I was getting $30-$35 a face cord and paying $32.50 for pulp. Couldn't tell you why he came up with a price with .50 in it!

[Alexanderthelate]

Used to be $60/ cord here around ten or fifteen years ago. $150 now.

[howitzer]

Cut firewood and split with go devil and delivered for $15 a face cord 1980 and thought we were making a killin!

[woodmills1]

1986 my first year
bought firwood logs at 25 bucks a cord
sold cut split dry delivered at $110
1995 last year old style firewood, no processor
cost $50  sold dry delivered $160
made almost as much on firewood as my teacher contract paid

[Billbob]

Back in '83 I was buying 8' hardwood delivered for $35 a cord.  All maple.  Now I buy 8' hardwood from my neighbour for $75 a cord.  I have to pick it up in the old mill yard 1/4 mile up the road.  No problem.  I have a tractor with FEL and a pulp wagon.  If I were to buy from the processors, it would be $250 a cord split and delivered.

[Stephen Alford]

 

 
  This  is the Restigouche River were I grew up. In the spring after the ice ran the wood would be shoved into the river. It would make its way to the holding ponds above the mill . Booms were hung off the islands to guide the flow of wood.  Wood would sink in the holding areas.  Two 40' booms would be lashed together and 2 guys would push them out into the river at low tide. Then work your way to shore at high tide. The wood was retrieved off the bottom with the use of pick poles. The two guys would pull the wood up on the boom starting to load in the middle working towards the end of the boom.  The wood a tad slimey and wet could be piled above high tide on shore for 6$ a cord.  If you could get it up in the field you got 8$ a cord. Delivered to the mill loaded by hand on an ol flat bed truck got 12$ a cord including off loading.  "Got scaled" ....  "Ahh ... Deadheadin.... Good Times"   :D

[Billbob]

 
  This  is the Restigouche River were I grew up. In the spring after the ice ran the wood would be shoved into the river. It would make its way to the holding ponds above the mill . Booms were hung off the islands to guide the flow of wood.  Wood would sink in the holding areas.  Two 40' booms would be lashed together and 2 guys would push them out into the river at low tide. Then work your way to shore at high tide. The wood was retrieved off the bottom with the use of pick poles. The two guys would pull the wood up on the boom starting to load in the middle working towards the end of the boom.  The wood a tad slimey and wet could be piled above high tide on shore for 6$ a cord.  If you could get it up in the field you got 8$ a cord. Delivered to the mill loaded by hand on an ol flat bed truck got 12$ a cord including off loading.  "Got scaled" ....  "Ahh ... Deadheadin.... Good Times"   :D

When you think about it we have it pretty good now.  Those were a hard days work for the loggers on the Restigouche, Miramichi and Caines.  Dangerous too!  It's beautiful country up that way.

[MJD]

In 1859 in the town I live in stove length wood sold to the school for $.84 a cord and they got 30 at a time, by 1867 the price went up to $2.25 a cord. In1848 school was 2 days a week and would cost 37 1/2 cents or a 1/2 cord of stove wood per scholar. There was only 5 kids in school that year. :laugh:

[Billbob]

In 1859 in the town I live in stove length wood sold to the school for $.84 a cord and they got 30 at a time, by 1867 the price went up to $2.25 a cord. In1848 school was 2 days a week and would cost 37 1/2 cents or a 1/2 cord of stove wood per scholar. There was only 5 kids in school that year. :laugh:

And the kids were responsible for keeping the stove fed in the school house!

[Bricklayer51]

2005 standing dead red oak 5.00 a face cord stumpage to landowner. Sold for 50.00 cut, split and delivered