Kind OT: Brought more poles home today, prices??

Casey in Ky · Jan 23, 2015

I brought my second load of 21ft telephone poles home today. These are some super nice pole, no rot, not shell rot. Of course some of these are near new, one was just a couple months old. I'm hoping for a couple more loads next week. I'll probably have 5 or 10 left over and I've got guy interested. Any idea what they'd be worth? He's not really neighbor, so I'd say it's just a business deal, but I want to be fair.

jm. · Jan 23, 2015

Casey I had a 1000 but they were rougher and older. Some were a little longer. Sold on them for couple years getting 15 to 20 bucks a pole. I think yours are 25 dollar poles or more.

ArleninOr · Jan 23, 2015

Casey, I get $18.00 for RR ties 8 ft. Power poles 8 ft 12.00.Never have enough. $1.50 to $2.00 a ft as 6x6 pt are over $3.50 a ft here. YMMV

willie in mn · Jan 23, 2015

Just a business deal, want to be fair. Forget what other people get for railroad ties in other parts of the country.
How about 20% over what you paid, plus $1.00/mile for hauling. That gives some profit & gets the ones that you keep on next load hauled almost free.
WJ

Kickinbull · Jan 24, 2015

I must of missed it, what are you going to do with them?

Traditional Farmer · Jan 24, 2015

So if you found a $100 bill lying on the road you'd sell it for $10 because you didn't have much cost involved in it?
He needs to get something approaching market value and market value has nothing to do with how much they cost him.

Traditional Farmer · Jan 24, 2015

Go to Lowes and a 16ft 6X6 is going to be $50+ and the longer the poles/lumber the more its worth per foot.Those would make some great runners for a wagon/round bale hauler so you might be able to market them that way.

willie in mn · Jan 24, 2015

Didn't say he found them along the road & got them free, or what he paid. Maybe he paid 20, 30, or even 50 bucks each. Only the original poster & whoever he got them from knows.
WJ

steve terplak · Jan 24, 2015

did a quick search on the local CL in upstate ny.
quite a variety....
2 - 21' poles for free.
1 - 23' - $60
1 - 30' pole, still buried in the ground, bring your own backhoe to dig it ou, $150... lol
i havce a couple i would give away but the time, effort of listing and dealing with someone to come take them is more than just letting them rot for the next 60 years in a hedgerow is worth to me...
your poles look nice - i would price it by local roughcut posts and do a discount from there...

Prawn Farmer · Jan 24, 2015

They look to be about 10-12" diameter poles? If you get, for example, 60¢ bd/ft that would be 10"=175 bd/ft= $105.00 or if 12" = 252 bd/ft= $151.20. Poles appear to be in ideal shape and ,if mine, would ask about 75¢ per board foot. There should be a metal tag nailed on the post somewhere telling how many pounds of penta retention the poles were originally treated to - e.g. 8lb/cu/ft of wood etc.

Dan in Ohio · Jan 24, 2015

Casey ,

Just had a wood shed built and used some 6x6x20 poles at $55 a pop.

farmerjohn · Jan 24, 2015

I'm on the board of our electric co-op and am trying to remember what I have heard that new 32 foot poles cost, I'm thinking $500.

Prawn Farmer · Jan 24, 2015

So that would be 92¢ bd/ft - yikes . . . didn't realize treated wood had gotten that expensive.

Mikein Ky · Jan 24, 2015

There is a pole yard near here, in Ky also, they sell used poles for $1.00 a foot.

Chris Jones · Jan 24, 2015

Only one fellow selling poles on my local CL. His ad says 8-11 inch diameter poles 8-10 foot long for 15 to 20 dollars. He's saying they are for use a fence posts. In the pics they look nice--they don't appear to have been used fence posts already.

I'd think the longer the poles are the more they would sell for per foot to a point.

old · Jan 24, 2015

Looks like you might want to check the air in them trailer tires they look like they are a bit soft

Dick2 · Jan 24, 2015

When we built a tall hayshed, I moved a bunch of old electric company poles with one of our 4-wheel wagons. I simply unhooked the center reach, moved the rear axle back and loaded the poles onto the two axles. Tied down the poles to the front and rear axles with chains and load binders and hauled them home with the Super H.

Just made a really long wheelbase of the trailer, but it worked just fine with about 10 poles per load. This was back before there were any long equipment trailers available.

Casey in Ky · Jan 24, 2015

Thanks for all the input. These poles really are like new, all of them have been climb once, and as I said, some are pretty much brand new. I work for the phone company and got these for free, other than hauling them. I'm going to build hay shed and cut somewhere between 50 and 100 7 ft post out if them. I'm hoping to get 2 or 3 more loads just like this. I can use all of them, and I priced local 6x6x20's new at well $60 a piece. I think I'm going to price these at. $50 a piece and just tell him I can use them all if he doesn't want them.

We've got a pole yard that sells them for a $1 a foot, but they are in a lot worse shape and you take what they give ya, even if it's a huge 3 foot in diameter pole or all chewed up or half rotten. These are all about 12 inches in diameter at the butt end. Again, thanks for the responses.

Oh, and the trailer tires are load range e tires at about 55 psi. Picture is a little deceiving, and the load is pretty heavy .

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