Hardwood nets

[FJMatt]

1 minute ago, Duffryn said:

 Then you must be at best breaking even on this 

Timber is bought by ton, 

I know exactly how many nets fresh per ton 

I know exactly how much sawdust/waste by ton 

I even know how many logs per net

And exactly the profit per net with it all taken into account 

 

[FJMatt]

5 minutes ago, gdh said:

Sounds like a reasonable price to me, we're not making masses but we're on £9 an hour and delivering it for £70 a cube. 

 

Out of curiosity how are you all selling bags? Is it in bulk for garden centres and garages or do you do a few to individuals if that's viable? 

99% wholesale, stopped nearly all household delivery back in 2001

Very few garden centres/garages/smaller retailers will stock hardwood, all want softwood, higher margin 

It's the larger firewood retailer's that don't actually cut themselves, that sell hardwood, 

[Duffryn]

Not passing judgment here, bagged 200 bags today as a test and thought f that for a game of soldiers. By the time you take depreciation / repairs on kit, extra time to move stuff around, break downs, jams hassle into account I couldn't see it was worth it. I calculated I was better off buying it in and spending my time maximising sales price and volume.

 

 

[FJMatt]

4 minutes ago, Duffryn said:

Not passing judgment here, bagged 200 bags today as a test and thought f that for a game of soldiers. By the time you take depreciation / repairs on kit, extra time to move stuff around, break downs, jams hassle into account I couldn't see it was worth it. I calculated I was better off buying it in and spending my time maximising sales price and volume.

 

 

Duffryn no problem 

This is the main reason I can sell them, as most hate the job, I'm not particularly keen, 

See, our main thing is kindling, lads chop Monday, Tuesday until 1.00 then tidy up start netting, net Wednesday. 

Empty drier Wednesday night, start chopping Thursday, Friday until 1.00 start netting, 

Equipment wise processor is already there, as well as staff,

Log nets always used to be kindling wood that for one reason or another wasn't suitable (softwood, knots) 

Now we cut for nets with the majority of the log nets sold from May through to August as this keeps things flowing as kindling sales tail off 

Its only in the last three years that we've gone back to doing hardwood net's at the request of one of our bigger customers, who also buys kindling and softwood nets