Enter what a cord costs you to cut, split and deliver and what you sell it for. You get your profit per cord, your profit per hour, the price per cord and per face cord you need to pay yourself a wage, and what wood cost and delivery distance do to all of it.
Your numbers, not advice. Prices, costs and times are yours to check; every value is editable. Nothing is uploaded: inputs are used in this browser tab only.
Your firewood business, per cord
One cord, one season
Line
Per cord cut
If your selling price moves
Price per cord
Profit per hour
After wage, per cord
Margin, season
If the wood costs more
Wood per cord
Cash cost per cord
Profit per hour
Price you need
If you deliver farther
Round trip (miles)
Profit per hour
After wage, per cord
Price you need
Time a full day of cutting, splitting and stacking before you trust the hours. A price that looks fine per cord can pay less than a part-time job per hour.
On the default numbers $135.13 in cash per cord: $90 of logs, $25 of equipment and fuel, $10 of other costs and $10.13 of delivery vehicle cost, plus 4.95 hours of your time. Wood is the largest cash line at 66.6 percent. Enter your own figures; the defaults are invented.
What price per cord do I need to earn a wage?
$272.51 per cord, or $90.84 per face cord, to pay yourself $25 an hour on those numbers. Selling at $300 leaves $26.12 a cord after that wage, $1,567.00 over 60 cords, and $30.28 an hour before any wage is deducted.
How much does delivery distance matter?
Doubling the round trip from 20 to 40 miles, with the trip twice as long, cuts the profit per hour from $30.28 to $23.68, turns the margin after wage into a loss of $7.77 a cord, and lifts the price you need to $308.18.
Is this advice or market data?
No. It does arithmetic on the numbers you type. Prices, costs and times are yours to check, nothing is uploaded, and it is not financial, tax or business advice.