Medford, New Jersey · Burlington, Camden & Gloucester counties and surrounding South Jersey
We don't sell the wood.
We help you find
the dry stuff.
“Seasoned” is a word anybody can print on a sign, and most firewood sold around here is wetter than the seller thinks it is. So here's a growing list of South Jersey sellers with their own phone numbers — and, as they sign up, the ones willing to publish what their wood meters and make a bad load right.
You buy from the seller, at the seller's price. We're not in the middle of it and we don't want to be — a referee who sells tickets isn't a referee.
Start here
What's on the site,
and what isn't yet.
A straight answer, because a new directory that describes itself like a finished one is just an advertisement.
37 firewood sellers across South Jersey, with their own phone numbers. No lead form in front of them, no tracking number, nobody calling you back. You take a number off the list and you dial it.
The list is growing and it is not finished. Plenty of the best firewood around here comes off a truck belonging to somebody with no website and a number that gets passed between neighbors — a search engine cannot find those people, and we are adding them by hand as we hear about them. Tell us who we're missing.
What's real, and what isn't
No moisture readings yet. That column stays empty until a seller signs the Guarantee and puts a number in writing. The day one does, this stops being a phone book.
- Every number in one place, with no lead form in front of it
- The measuring and delivery-ticket rules New Jersey already gives you
- Somebody to tell when a listing is wrong
- Readings, prices and reviews — none yet, and we say so on the page rather than leaving you to work it out
We could have left every one of those lines off. They're here because this only works if you believe the moisture numbers when they do turn up.
What we actually do
What you'll find here
A list of sellers, a standard they can sign up to, and the questions worth asking before you agree to anything.
The list, and what to ask
37 firewood sellers across South Jersey so far, with their own phone numbers, and more added as we find them. You call them, you buy from them, you pay their price — we never touch the money and we don't take a cut of it. What we add is the questions worth asking and, as sellers sign up, the moisture numbers behind the answers.
We don't quote a price, because we have nothing to sell you and no seller has authorized us to speak for them. A price appears on a row only when the seller gives it to us and keeps it current. How to judge a quote →
See who's on the listFire kits, coming
The Caveman Pack and the four things worth keeping in a box by the stove — ferro rod, fatwood, excelsior and wax starters. Packed by us, shipped anywhere in the lower 48 — the one part of this that has nothing to do with who's selling wood this week.
Not shipping yet. The kits are designed and priced, and they get packed when enough people say they'd buy one. Put your name down and you'll get one message when they ship — no deposit, no card.
See the kitsWhy the meter matters
“Seasoned” is a word.
20% is a number.
The EPA puts it in one sentence: “Wood burns best at a moisture content of less than 20 percent,” and season it “for at least six months.” That is the whole standard. It is a ceiling, not a range, and it is the number on this site because it's the number the people who study this settled on.
“Seasoned” is not a regulated term. Nobody has to test anything to print it on a sign. When the University of Tennessee actually metered bagged firewood sold as seasoned, the average came back around 66% moisture and not one sample met the standard. That gap is the entire reason this business exists.
Wet wood is not just a slow fire. It's the tar that coats your flue, the glass that never stays clear, and roughly a third of the heat you paid for going up the chimney as steam.
So here's exactly what we'll promise, and what we won't. Nobody meters every piece they sell, and anyone who says they do is guessing. A Guaranteed seller meters the stack: six pieces minimum from different depths, split open, read on the fresh inside face. The highest reading gets published, in their name, with the date. Not the average — an average hides the wet piece.
We are not the ones holding the meter, and we won't pretend to be. That number is the seller's, taken the published way and signed for. What makes it worth something is not our word, it's the remedy behind it: miss the reading you published, and you make it right within seven days or the Guarantee comes off your row in public, with the date, and stays visible for a year.
Then you check it. A pin meter is about $38 and it settles this argument permanently. Split a piece, press the pins into the fresh face. If it reads over 20%, tell us and it publishes next to their claim. That is the check — not one man with a clipboard visiting a yard on one day, but every buyer who owns a meter, which is a great deal harder to game. The column is empty today, and a site that filled it with guesses would be doing the exact thing it was built to stop.
We'd rather hold somebody to a promise than make one we can't personally keep.
Drying figures from University of Maryland Extension FS-1074 and EPA Burn Wise. Mid-Atlantic climate, split and top-covered. Bagged-firewood moisture survey: University of Tennessee Extension W179.
Why we don't advertise a lower number
A lower number would sound better and it wouldn't survive a wet week. Air-dried wood in this climate settles around 12–14%, and one October rain puts the outer inch back up — so a 15% promise is a promise a seller can't keep. Under 20% is a number we can hold on the worst piece in the stack, in the worst week of the year. Kiln-dried wood reads lower, and a seller running a kiln should be reporting the number that proves it.
Getting a cord
Call them yourself.
Ask them these four things.
There is no lead form here and no “someone will contact you.” You take the number off the list and you dial it. What we can give you is the four questions that separate a real operation from a guy with a truck — and they work on a seller who has never heard of us.
“What does it meter?”
Not “is it seasoned.” A number with a date behind it is a different kind of answer, and how they handle the question tells you more than the number.
“Is that a full cord?”
128 cubic feet, stacked. Face cords, racks and truckloads are prohibited terms in New Jersey — in the ad as much as at the sale.
“Do I get a ticket?”
The state already requires one with their name, the quantity and the price on it. Plenty of sellers don't provide one, and asking is the fastest tell there is.
“What if it's wetter than you said, or short?”
Both are checkable with a meter and a tape. Ask before you pay, while you still have leverage. All four, with what a good answer sounds like →
The list
The list, and how
it gets bigger.
Not just the ones who signed. Every seller on it gets the same row — name, town, phone, what they advertise — because when you need wood in January you need a phone number, and a list with four names on it is no use to you.
It is not a complete list of firewood sellers in South Jersey and it never will be. The ones with no website are the hardest to find and often the best, so the list grows two ways: we keep looking, and people tell us who's missing. Send us a name and a town — that's enough.
There is one way a seller can add to their row. Sign the Guarantee: their own dated moisture reading goes up in their name, with a published promise to make a bad load right within seven days. Until somebody does, every row is a name and a phone number.
Selling firewood?
- Listed. No charge, no agreement. We found you and wrote down what you publish — tell us if any of it is wrong
- Guaranteed. You meter your own stacks the published way, send us the number with the date, and make a load right within seven days if it misses
- Not a badge you can buy. It costs a moisture reading in writing and a promise you have to keep — and if you break it, the mark comes off in public
Free while we're getting started. The moisture column is empty on every row, so yours would be the first with a number in it. What it asks of you →
South Jersey
Cold snap is coming.
Call before everyone else does.
Wood bought in early autumn burns better in January than wood bought in January — and by February the whole county is short at once.