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Advice on Firewood BusinessIt doesn't take special education or training to become successful firewood supplier. Later on, as your business develops and grows, you may want to offer several different kinds of firewood, that is, become a full-service dealer offering firewood to meet everyone's needs and fancies for your area. With a little bit of initiative on your part, you should be able to discover any number of small sawmill operations within a 200-mile radius most metropolitan areas in this country. What you'll want to do is buy a truckload of mill ends, take them home and package them into sacks of firewood. If you buy in quantity, you can get them at a very reasonable price. You can purchase twine for tying the sacks at the same place. WHOLE LOGS: Many people have chain saws and fancy themselves as "do-it-yourselfs," but they don't have the time to go out into the woods and bring back firewood. The ultimate, of course, would be be include delivery and stacking of this wood at the customer's residence. You'll find most people buying cords or truckload quantities of firewood before cold weather sets in, and after that, people will buy in quantities only large enough to get by, or to last out a sudden cold public, after setting up retail sales outlets, be sure that your prices at least "average" those being charged by the retail sellers. Never "undercut" the price your retail people are charging. |