Buying arb waste?

[Little Butch]

Looking to get some timber in ready to split for next winter sales. A friend of mine has a big pile of Arb logs which he said he'd sell 5 trailer loads to me from. Just trying to work out how much to offer as it'll take me a day of running it to my place and a full tank of fuel. 

 

2 ton on a tipping trailer? So 10ish tons all in sound about right?

How many cube out of a ton? 2.5?

 

 

[Woodworks]

I would not want to be paying for arb waste. I work for guys who take it in for free and process for them and it's slow going.

 

What size is your trailer? I recon with nice straight timber I could get 1.6 tonne max on our 10'x5'. With twisty arb waste it would be less.

 

Pretty much 2m3 of logs per tonne of wood.

[Mick Dempsey]

Just now, Woodworks said:

I would not want to be paying for arb waste. I work for guys who take it in for free and process for them and it's slow going.

 

What size is your trailer? I recon with nice straight timber I could get 1.6 tonne max on our 10'x5'. With twisty arb waste it would be less.

 

Pretty much 2m3 of logs per tonne of wood.

Agreed, especially if you’re taking it away yourself.

[Little Butch]

Okay so not as good as I thought it may work out. Cheers! 

[spandit]

Give him £20 as good will for a beer or two

[Little Butch]

Wants £40 a load, it probably 20 min drive to the yard. Not worth it...

[Mick Dempsey]

No, some points here to consider..

 

[mitchel]

On 12/29/2017 at 20:38, Little Butch said:

Wants £40 a load, it probably 20 min drive to the yard. Not worth it...

 

hes joking right haha so he wants you to use your fuel your vehicle your time to load to give him £40 for a job hes already been paid for taking down tree tell him to f. id say £40-50 a full transit tipper load is fair not worth it if collecting then paying 

[matelot]

Could you pick the straight stuff out? It's easy enough to split straight timber but it's ten times harder to split the twisted stuff up.

 

Could you process the stuff up at your friends yard? I can't help thinking processing straight into bags would save one lot of double handling.

[Little Butch]

I could pick straight stuff out no bother. Straight into bags would be worth it then deliver straight from his yard but it's been sat outside in the wet so not ready for the customer although plenty of it is seasoned. I keep getting the odd person ask for firewood even though I've not advertised as I'm nearly out of logs, so I may buy one big trailer load, split it and leave it to dry for those end of season customers?

 

How long would wet but seasoned wood take to dry out once split roughly?