Woodcutting Money Making for F2P

Making money on Runescape isn't easy, but when you're playing the free to play game it gets a whole lot harder.  There are a few different approaches to making money if you're a non member, though I think I should warn you know that you'll make nowhere near the amount of money that a member could potentially make.

There are essentially three different routes you can go down if you want to make serious money on a f2p Runescape account:

1.  Skilling
2.  Merchanting
3.  Pking

Skilling is very simple, and it involves training a skill which are widely defined of as being non combat.  These skills include woodcutting, fishing, crafting, smithing and mining.  There are other skills that are non combat but don't expect these to make you money, expect them to lose you money.

With regards to making money by using the woodcutting skill, the concept is very simple, cut down the highest level tree you can with the best hatchet you can wield.  Right of the bat I'd definitely recommend buying a rune hatchet if you can wield it, if you can't, train up your attack so that you can.  It's very important if you are really interesting in making money by woodcutting.

The best woodcutting spots for willow trees are south of Draynor, near the sea where you'll find a bank close to a large number of willow trees.  This means you can fill your inventory and quickly bank without having to walk for a long amount of time, this takes a woodcutting level of 45.  For yew trees you have two good options, the first is south of Falador where there are three yew trees that are spread out.  This isn't quite as close to the bank as the willows but it's not too far of a walk.  The second option is on the outskirts of Varrock Castle, again you have three trees that are a moderate distance from the bank, not too far but not particularly short distances.

After you've cut down a good amount of logs, anywhere from 100 to several thousand it's time to sell them.  This means going to the grand exchange in Varrock, but there's a definite technique for selling logs.  Firstly check the grand exchange using the 30 day graph, if your logs are exceptionally low than there's a good chance they'll rise again and it's definitely worth waiting and simply cutting more logs until that point.  If on the other hand you're impatient (which is understandable), then the best thing to do is to sell one log at 1gp below medium price.  What happens?  If it sells instantly at the price than it means that you could actually make more money than what you sold it for.  This is great news because you only sold one, sell two more legs and rise the prices by a few gp every time.  Go as high as you can go that'll sell within 10-15 minutes and then after that put all of the logs to sell for that price!  This maximises how much money you can making from using the f2p woodcutting skill and means your hard work of hours doesn't go to waste!