Thread: Firewood pricing

We (Official business) charge $65pm for offcuts and $85pm for splitwood. Compared to those around here we're cheap

Around here dry Redgum sells for about $120m³, general hardwood such as Stringy, Manna Gum, Messmate sells at around the $90m³ mark.

Separate the Yellowbox from the other stuff and sell it at a higher rate than the other stuff. Yellowbox will burn a lot longer and give out much more heat once you've got a good fire going

down here in the valley you can pay $50-$70 for a 6x4 trailer load of bushwood and up to $120 per meter for split redgum

i charge $90/7x4 load of flitchings. bloke down the road charges $150 for a load in the back of a discovery style side ute.

blokes up the road charge $120 for a load, and they get 3 loads ona 2 ton truck.

Thank you all. Most helpful, as always

Northern Melb where I am Redgum was $220 a tonne delivered last year.

Hey Kris, I have a small firewood business on the side, I charge 80 bucks a load. This is a cash thing and my loads are roughly 1.1 to 1.2 cubic metres. This equates to a very full 6x4 trailer load properly stacked into the trailer not just thrown in like some firewood sellers I have seen. oh and it is all good gum not the rubbishy stuff that is really full of gum and dirt.
I reckon if you are swing off a saw and a splitter $75 to 80 in your pocket is what you should be looking at getting per metre, so I guess you need to charge Great #### tax on that, anyone who says it aint worth at least that I tell to come out with me for a day and take the easy job of swinging the splitter. soon shuts them up!!!!

Originally Posted by DJ's Timber

Around here dry Redgum sells for about $120m³, general hardwood such as Stringy, Manna Gum, Messmate sells at around the $90m³ mark.

Separate the Yellowbox from the other stuff and sell it at a higher rate than the other stuff. Yellowbox will burn a lot longer and give out much more heat once you've got a good fire going

Doesn't work like that cause good yellow box needs to be mixed to burn properly, better off just mixing it at about 25% and if someone wants to specifically buy yellow box then charge them a premium.

Originally Posted by Travis Edwards

Doesn't work like that cause good yellow box needs to be mixed to burn properly, better off just mixing it at about 25% and if someone wants to specifically buy yellow box then charge them a premium.

That was what I was implying, put it on top of a hot fire from the other stuff. If I sell or give anyone any, I tell them it needs to go on a hot fire from wood that burns easier otherwise you're wasting your wood. No point giving it to them in a mixed load unless you tell them upfront.

hi there, i recently moved to warburton and saw some of you are from here, can you please help me w getting wood? the Lumberjack? is $160pm redwood, and some other guys number i got from the Millgrove shops was $110 for red/bus mix but the pile was like half the size of the lumberjack, he may be pricey but it was def a cubic metre, these other guys were about half. how r u sposed to know without scales? I guess its a trust thing and trial/error. anyway I desp need wood, can anyone pls help? my first lot when i moved here was $75 for bush, so i think $100 for a mix seems fair? its so expensive!
thanks for any help/tips

I've got a business friend of my old man coming from Berwick just to get a load of bush gear (a freebie) from me because he can't for the life of him get anything around there and/or for a decent price. I doubt he'd come if he wasn't a mate and it wasn't free because it's about 2.5 hours away, but he's that desperate apparently.

I remember reading a few months ago that due to fires and floods it's been really difficult for woodies to get redgum. I know there were tonnes of trees downed around my way earlier in the year but would have been too green for anything but smoke. I should follow them up and see what's happened to them...it was a real drool fest everytime I went past.

Originally Posted by carlie

hi there, i recently moved to warburton and saw some of you are from here, can you please help me w getting wood? the Lumberjack? is $160pm redwood, and some other guys number i got from the Millgrove shops was $110 for red/bus mix but the pile was like half the size of the lumberjack, he may be pricey but it was def a cubic metre, these other guys were about half. how r u sposed to know without scales? I guess its a trust thing and trial/error. anyway I desp need wood, can anyone pls help? my first lot when i moved here was $75 for bush, so i think $100 for a mix seems fair? its so expensive!
thanks for any help/tips

Yarra Junction Garden Supplies at 2687 Warburton Hwy, WESBURN sell Redgum and deliver, not too sure of pricing but do know of someone who paid $75 for half a metre, so would imagine a metre would be less than $150. The more you buy the cheaper it is.

You can also call Richard on 0408 419 729, he sells Redgum as well, he lives at Millgrove but operates out of Monbulk and delivers to all areas up the Warbie Hwy.

Both of the above use bins or buckets which have been either made or measured to give the correct amount.

Just be mindful that prices have gone up a bit since this thread was started due to rising fuel costs, fires and floods.

Last time we bought redgum in Melb. it was $220 a tonne delivered. Two years ago. It came from NSW.

Since, a large chunk of both NSW and Vic redgum forests have been conserved so I'd expect more than the usual price rises.

Originally Posted by Travis Edwards

Doesn't work like that cause good yellow box needs to be mixed to burn properly, better off just mixing it at about 25% and if someone wants to specifically buy yellow box then charge them a premium.

You must have crap Yellow Box down in Victoria because New England Yellow Box will burn fine on its own as long as it has been dead for at least ten to twenty years. I run it in my slow combustion stove whenever I can find a dead tree. Next best is Red Gum then Stringy Bark and then New England Peppermint