Selling Dressers to the Electric Company?

To give a price perspective; I recently got a price from one of the chipper crews. I had sold some pine timber from a plot that was hit with some hard wind and blown down. When the logger was done there was a lot of limbs, stumps and some odd shaped logs that wouldn't go in the trucks. A chipping contractor told us they could use most of it and would pay 50 cents per ton. It started raining that week and got too wet so I don't know what the turnout would have been.

Originally Posted by Pnutfarmer

To give a price perspective; I recently got a price from one of the chipper crews. I had sold some pine timber from a plot that was hit with some hard wind and blown down. When the logger was done there was a lot of limbs, stumps and some odd shaped logs that wouldn't go in the trucks. A chipping contractor told us they could use most of it and would pay 50 cents per ton. It started raining that week and got too wet so I don't know what the turnout would have been.

A quick Google search for softwood pellets shows a price of about $375.00 - $425.00 per ton. If you've got access to free wood, producing wood pellets could be a nice side line. Wood Pellet Pricing Comparison Chart | Southern Maine Renewable Fuels

Also, wood mulch seems to be going for $1.00 - $1.50 per cubic foot. I don't know how much weight this equates to, but the return would probably be less than with pellets. On the other hand, your processing would also be less.