Used dumpy bags- availability?

[daveatdave]

if you see any builders on your travels ask them they usually have some kicking about and glad to get rid of them as they are non returnable

[Starscream]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/391236423463

[Logsnstuff]

think your pricing is wrong if you cant afford a bag.

[Acer Forestry]

I'm a great believer in recycling, enough goes into landfill as it is. Also around here everybody sells logs so if you are not competitive on the price, you won't shift much...

[Logsnstuff]

I'm a great believer in recycling, enough goes into landfill as it is. Also around here everybody sells logs so if you are not competitive on the price, you won't shift much...

 

disagree on selling I have 3 competitors within 20 miles all doing 4m3 around £250 and I can still sell my 1m3 bags at £120, quality is more important to many over price, our region is also swamped with people selling logs but part timers mostly don't do the work to get a quality product

[Lillywhite Timber]

One thing worth looking at is the level of deformation in secondhand ones , in my experience they can be a bit of false economy when they get to a certain point .

Nice new rigid sided bags hold exactly their designed volume , stretched baggy old bags wont be long taking 5 or 10 Quids extra worth of timber on you .....

[Fazerdude]

Speak to your local jobbing builders. They're non returnable to the merchants, so it cost's them to dispose of them.

[Acer Forestry]

One thing worth looking at is the level of deformation in secondhand ones , in my experience they can be a bit of false economy when they get to a certain point .

Nice new rigid sided bags hold exactly their designed volume , stretched baggy old bags wont be long taking 5 or 10 Quids extra worth of timber on you .....

 

Yes, you are quite right- I'm ordering some new, as per the ebay link earlier in the thread.

[Acer Forestry]

disagree on selling I have 3 competitors within 20 miles all doing 4m3 around £250 and I can still sell my 1m3 bags at £120, quality is more important to many over price, our region is also swamped with people selling logs but part timers mostly don't do the work to get a quality product

 

3 competitors within 20 miles...?Try multiplying that by at least 10 and you might be getting close to what there is locally to me. The (Kent) Wealden free magazine has about 20 log adverts weekly, alone. That's without random farmers, smallholders and woodland owners etc., new signs every other day at the roadside. Competiton is seriously strong

[monkeybusiness]

3 competitors within 20 miles...?Try multiplying that by at least 10 and you might be getting close to what there is locally to me. The (Kent) Wealden free magazine has about 20 log adverts weekly, alone. That's without random farmers, smallholders and woodland owners etc., new signs every other day at the roadside. Competiton is seriously strong

 

Don't sell logs then! A race to the bottom is a mug's game...