standing timber price. Price per cube roadside.

[Woodworks]

7 minutes ago, Root and branch sw said:

I will keep you posted.  It's not a million miles from you. 

Give me a call as and when 07967 632933 Thanks

 

Beau

[Logan]

yes, the figures don't add up very well in this kind of forestry. So if you want to be a forestry contractor, you have to fool yourself by creatively tweaking the figures until it looks better. Like this:

1) fell 8t/ man/ day @ £160/ day=just £5000

2) spend just 3 days on the tracked machine making routes to all logs, pull out and finish hang ups, etc= a measly £1000

3) spend just 6 days forwarding at rate of one load per hr, every hr, don't stop, and don't get stuck and have to unload to get through= a laughable £2000

4) completely forget about any transport costs for machines, 5% mark ups for the time spent viewing and all that, or any other sensible rainy day allowances that aught be factored.

 

£8000 + £3750 for the beautiful wood = £11750/250T = £47/T roadside= b-----, further tweaking necessary, or ask £48 roadside, or get delivered for less than £12 locally @£60 delivered price, or offer £10 per tonne standing, or £12, depending on how "keen" you are to be a forestry contractor and work too hard for very low returns!

 

Best regards, and if your cutters are having good day and the wood is not too small, you may achieve a better daily average.

 

It's not as bad as it sounds. Honest.